Job Actor
Years active 1947-1984
Top Roles Frankie Ballou, Garabet, Managing Editor, Convict, Father Devers
Top GenresDrama, Crime, Comedy, Film Noir, Biographical, Thriller/Suspense
Top TopicsPeriod Piece, Prison, Teachers
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John Marley Overview:

Actor, John Marley, was born on Oct 17, 1907 in New York City, NY. Marley died at the age of 76 on May 22, 1984 in Los Angeles County, CA .

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Marley was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1970Best Supporting ActorLove Story (1970)Phil CavilleriNominated
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John Marley Quotes:

Jeannie: Skinny people are not like fat people. Fat people are jolly. Right?
Richard Forst: Wrong. Skinny people are happy because they're not fat.

Richard Forst: You get laid once and everything is solved! Get all the soldiers in Vietnam laid and the whole Middle East problem is solved!

Richard Forst: Jeannie, do me a favor. Don't be silly anymore. Just be yourself.
Jeannie: But I am myself. Who else would I be?
Richard Forst: I'm serious.
Jeannie: Definition of serious: Blah blah blah blah...

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Best Supporting Actor Oscar 1970
WINNER
John Mills
(as Michael)
in Ryan's Daughter
Nominee
Richard Castellano
(as Frank Vecchio)
in Lovers and Other Strangers
Nominee
Chief Dan George
(as Old Lodge Skins)
in Little Big Man
Nominee
Gene Hackman
(as Gene Garrison)
in I Never Sang for My Father
Nominee

(as Phil Cavilleri)
in Love Story
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John Marley Facts
Married twice and the father of four -- three children, Peter Marley, Julia Marley and Ben Marley, from his first marriage; one child, Alexis Marley, from his second.
During rehearsals for John's notorious horse head bedroom scene in The Godfather (1972) a fake horse's head was used. For the actual day of shooting, however, a freshly severed horse's head was used from a slaughterhouse in New Jersey. The blood, however, was not real.
Reprised his role as Jack Woltz for a lengthy Godfather parody by "SCTV" (1976) in 1981. Here he plays Leonard Bernstein (whom he closely resembled), who refuses to give Johnny Pavorotti (John Candy) the lead role in the "new war opera".
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