Steven Marlo 1927-2019
Steven Marlo (July 13, 1927 - November 7, 2019) was an American actor.
Born Morris Miller in San Francisco, California, he served in the Army Air Corps and later attended acting school in L.A. on the G.I. Bill but dropped out and moved to New York, temporarily making ends meet as a cab driver and dish washer while auditioning for acting jobs. In 1951, he got his first break on Broadway in the comedy play "The Royal Family". Two years later he was in the cast of "Picnic" alongside a young stage newcomer named Paul Newman. As regular theatrical work became more and more difficult to come by, Marlo relocated to Hollywood, successfully auditioned for the role of a bodybuilder in the low budget crime drama Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) and subsequently adopted his new stage moniker. Around this time he completed drama studies at the Actor's Studio under Lee Strasberg. Until his retirement in 1990 he amassed some 79 acting credits on screen, having played anything from gangsters to police officers, from medics to a deformed hunchback in Terror in the Wax Museum (1973). Among numerous appearances on the small screen he could be seen as Native Americans in Death Valley Days (1952), insidious Special Investigations Department officials in Land of the Giants (1968) and as a dapper, straw boater-wearing henchman in the Star Trek: The Original Series: A Piece of the Action (1968).
Marlo passed away on November 7, 2019 in Marysville, Washington at the age of 92.