Bryan Marshall (born 19 May 1938) is an English actor, with a number of major credits in film and television to his name.
Marshall was born in Clapham, London. He is of Irish descent and was educated at the Salesian College, Battersea and trained as an actor at RADA, before appearing at the Bristol Old Vic and in repertory theatre.
His film credits include: Alfie, The Witches, Quatermass and the Pit, The Tamarind Seed and The Spy Who Loved Me. By far, his most well remembered film role is the part of Councillor Harris in the crime film The Long Good Friday.
Television credits include:Spindoe, Persuasion, Warship, United!, The Forsyte Saga, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, The Saint, The Avengers, The Onedin Line, Out, The Professionals, Return of the Saint, Buccaneer, The Chinese Detective, Robin of Sherwood, Heartbeat, The Bill and Dalziel and Pascoe.
He has also worked extensively in Australia, with credits including Prisoner, BMX Bandits, Neighbours, Embassy, Home and Away, Stingers, Water Rats and All Saints.
In 1989 Bryan Marshall was the original host of Australia's Most Wanted, an Australian version of the show America's Most Wanted which was focused on helping the police with unsolved crimes.
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“I think we will live through his term, Archie, and I’ll tell you something, old man, if they don’t stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“I acknowledge that the balance I have achieved between work and family roles comes at a cost, and every day I must weigh whether I live with that cost happily or guiltily, or whether some other lifestyle entails trade-offs I might accept more readily. It is always my choice: to change what I cannot tolerate, or tolerate what I cannot—or will not—change.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)