Marco St. John

Last updated
Marco St. John
Born (1939-05-07) May 7, 1939 (age 84)

Marco St. John (born Marco John Figueroa, Jr.; May 7, 1939) is an American actor who has appeared in films and television programs. He is known for his role as the horny truck driver in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise and for playing Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning .

Contents

Early life

St. John was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Iris (née Davidson) and Marco Juan Figueroa, Sr. [1]

Career

He has had many TV roles, starred in many TV-films and had roles on soap operas. He starred on Search for Tomorrow in 1975 as Joey Kimball, as Paul Stewart in 1969-70 on As the World Turns and in All My Children .

St. John made guest appearances on TV programs such as Naked City , Route 66 , Bonanza , Gunsmoke and Walker, Texas Ranger .

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1966 The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean Bobo
1972 The Mind Snatchers Lawrence Shannon
1976 The Next Man Justin
1978 Superman Mugger's Arm in AlleyUncredited
1980 Night of the Juggler Hampton Richmond Clayton III
1982 Cat People Policeman
1984 Tightrope Leander Rolfe
1985 Friday the 13th: A New Beginning Sheriff Tucker
1989 The Package Marth
1990 State of Grace Cavello
1991 Thelma & Louise Truck DriverUncredited
1993 Hard Target Dr. Morton
1995The DangerousPolk
1997 The Truth About Juliet Jack Green
2001 The Rising Place Defense Attorney
2001The WakingDeputy Wilkes
2002 The Badge Big Six Rayburn
2003Tough LuckCharlie
2003 Undermind Mr. Laurie
2003 Runaway Jury Daley
2003 Monster Evan / Undercover "John"
2003ViciousCol. HardwickDirect-to-video
2004 The Punisher Police Chief Morris
2004 Mr. 3000 Reporter
2005At LastFrank Singleton
2006 Things That Hang from Trees Sheriff Hank Bullard
2006Beyond the Wall of SleepDr. Fenton
2006InCimanno
2007 Flakes Tre Zeringue
2008New Orleans, Mon AmourSinclar
2008 My Mom's New Boyfriend Inspector Laborde
2008 The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Mr. Willow
2008 Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous Morris Grey Esq.
2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Eugene Gratz
2010 Leonie Routolo
2010 Dylan Dog: Dead of Night Borelli
2011 Rites of Spring The Stranger
2012 The Philly Kid Doctor
2012 The Campaign HusbandUncredited
2013 Shadow People Professor Norman Fisher
2013 The Butler Warren E. Burger Uncredited
2014 Barefoot Mr. Vincent
2015 Zipper John Tamlin
2015 Parallels Promoter
2015Sweet KandyWarden Lester Cribbs
2015 Return to Sender Older Man
2015 Fantastic Four DC Military Official (Area 57)
2015Relentless JusticeIngrassia
2016PartnersCaptain Jack MacDonald
2016 Indiscretion Governor Wallace
2017Mississippi MurderDet. Eddie
2017 Novitiate Father Luca
2018Urban CountryJudge Jacobs

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1962 Naked City Dom CapadoEpisode: "Daughter Am I in My Father's House"
1963 Route 66 Johnnie SimmonsEpisode: "Soda Pop and Paper Flags"
1967 Coronet Blue TedEpisode: "A Time to Be Born"
1970 As the World Turns Dr. Paul StewartEpisode dated 27 February 1970
1972 Bonanza PlankEpisode: "Riot"
1972, 1974 Gunsmoke Darcy / Virgil Bonner2 episodes
1973 Bridget Loves Bernie Roger MeltonEpisode: "Greener Pastures"
1976 Kojak Tony PapasEpisode: "Birthday Party"
1976 Ball Four Rayford Plunkett /

Raymond Plunkett

6 episodes
1977 Contract on Cherry Street Eddie ManzaroTelevision film
1977 Ryan's Hope Police OfficerEpisode #1.631
1980 Beulah Land BlaylockEpisode: "Part III"
1981 American Playhouse BanfieldEpisode: "Until She Talks"
1982 The Six of Us Kevin TreeTelevision film
1983Dixie: Changing HabitsEmcee
1984 Remington Steele Doc GridleyEpisode: "Second Base Steele"
1987 The New Mike Hammer Milo's HenchmanEpisode: "A Face in the Night"
1987 The Equalizer Victor ThorpeEpisode: "First Light"
1988, 1990 In the Heat of the Night Jay Turkus / Joe Ed Thaxton2 episodes
1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw PaytonTelevision film
1990Blue BayouMorley Rickerts
1991 This Gun for Hire Tom Scott
1991 Major Dad Barney FlattEpisode: "Major Moonlighting"
1994, 1996 Walker, Texas Ranger Evan Calder / Officer Strangis2 episodes
1995 Pointman Martin HirschEpisode: "Judgement Day"
1996 The Big Easy Elliott BookerEpisode: "The Gambler"
1999 Homicide: Life on the Street Bus Driver McCuskerEpisode: "Shades of Gray"
2000 Sacrifice Dr. Hector SalcodoTelevision film
2004 Frankenfish Chief
2004 The Brooke Ellison Story Literature Professor
2005 Snow Wonder Judge Tilma
2007 Girl, Positive Parent
2010 Memphis Beat Mayor Brian TalmadgeEpisode: "I Shall Not Be Moved"
2010–2013 Treme Dr. Roger McAlary7 episodes
2012–2013Suit UpTom Wilshire9 episodes
2015I Killed My BFFSimonTelevision film
2016 Roots Second GamblerEpisode: "Part 3"
2017Mississippi River SharksBig BillTelevision film
2019 I Am the Night MillerEpisode: "Matador"

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Basil Rathbone</span> English actor (1892–1967)

Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lew Ayres</span> American actor (1908–1996)

Lewis Frederick Ayres III was an American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years. He is best known for starring as German soldier Paul Bäumer in the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and for playing Dr. Kildare in nine films. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Johnny Belinda (1948).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Broderick Crawford</span> American actor (1911–1986)

William Broderick Crawford was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Willie Stark in the film All the King's Men (1949), which earned him an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Often cast in tough-guy or slob roles, he later achieved recognition for his starring role as Dan Mathews in the crime television series Highway Patrol (1955–1959).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Goodman</span> American actor

John Stephen Goodman is an American actor. He rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor. Goodman has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He received a Disney Legend Award in 2013. Vanity Fair has called him "among our very finest actors."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Houseman</span> British-American actor and film producer (1902–1988)

John Houseman was a Romanian-born British-American actor and producer of theatre, film, and television. He became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane and his collaboration, as producer of The Blue Dahlia, with writer Raymond Chandler on the screenplay. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase. He reprised the role of Kingsfield in the 1978 television series adaptation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Carradine</span> American actor (1906-1988)

John Carradine was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theater, most notably portraying Count Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945), Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979). Among his other notable roles was “Preacher Casy” in John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath. In later decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies. In total, he holds 351 film and television credits, making him one of the most prolific English-speaking film and television actors of all time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred Drake</span> American actor

Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Don Ameche</span> American actor (1908–1993)

Don Ameche was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Amos</span> American actor (born 1939)

John Allen Amos Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries Roots and for portraying James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good Times. Amos' other television work includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a recurring role as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace on The West Wing, and the role of Washington, DC Mayor Ethan Baker in the series The District. Amos has appeared on Broadway and in numerous films in his five-decade career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Donnie Wahlberg</span> American singer and actor (born 1969)

Donald Edmond Wahlberg Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and producer. He is a founding member of the boy band New Kids on the Block. Outside music, he has had roles in the Saw films, Zookeeper (2011), Dreamcatcher (2003), The Sixth Sense (1999), Righteous Kill (2008), and Ransom (1996), as well as the role of Carwood Lipton in the World War II miniseries Band of Brothers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Waters (actor)</span> Australian actor

John Russell Waters is an English-born Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and musician. He is the son of Scottish actor Russell Waters. John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series Play School for 18 years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Newton</span> English actor (1905–1956)

Robert Guy Newton was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard-living life, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Dorff</span> American actor

Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr. is an American actor. Starting his film career as a child appearing in the cult horror film The Gate (1987), Dorff first rose to prominence playing Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat (1994) and then gained further mainstream attention for portraying Deacon Frost in Blade (1998). Other notable lead roles include Bob Rafelson's Blood and Wine (1997), the titular character in John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented (2000) and Johnny Marco in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (2010), as well as Britney Spears’ boyfriend in her 2004 music video for "Everytime".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Mitchell (actor)</span> American actor and writer (1892-1962)

Thomas John Mitchell was an Irish-American actor and writer. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, Doc Boone in Stagecoach, Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life, Pat Garrett in The Outlaw, and Mayor Jonas Henderson in High Noon. Mitchell was the first male actor to gain the Triple Crown of Acting by winning an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Ontkean</span> Canadian actor

Michael Ontkean is a retired Canadian actor. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Carson</span> Canadian-American actor (1910–1963)

John Elmer Carson, known as Jack Carson, was a Canadian-born American film actor. Carson often played the role of comedic friend in films of the 1940s and 1950s, including The Strawberry Blonde (1941) with James Cagney and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) with Cary Grant. He appeared in such dramas as Mildred Pierce (1945), A Star is Born (1954), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). He worked for RKO and MGM, but most of his notable work was for Warner Bros.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emilio Fernández</span> Mexican film director and actor

Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his work as director of the film María Candelaria (1944), which won the Palme d'Or award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions in Mexico and in Hollywood. He was the father of the Mexican actor Jaime Fernández.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernest Truex</span> American actor (1889–1973)

Ernest Truex was an American actor of stage, film, and television.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyle Bettger</span> American actor

Lyle Stathem Bettger was an American character actor who had roles in Hollywood films and television from the 1950s onward, often portraying villains. One such role was the wrathfully jealous elephant handler Klaus from the Oscar-winning film The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harold Huber</span> American actor

Harold Huber was an American actor who appeared on film, radio and television.

References