Trivia

Was in three Best Picture nominees: Almas en la hoguera (1949), La malvada (1950), and Elmer Gantry, ni bendito ni maldito (1960), with All About Eve winning in 1950.

He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: La rueda de la fortuna (1944), Almas en la hoguera (1949), La malvada (1950), and El día que paralizaron la Tierra (1951).

When Marlowe left his job as a radio announcer at WHO in Des Moines, he was replaced by another future film actor - Ronald Reagan.

Is one of twelve actors who played the trifecta - the victim, the defendant, and the murderer - in various episodes of Perry Mason (1957).

A former radio announcer, he began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in the early 1930s. He worked at 20th Century Fox as a second lead in the 1950s and reprised his former radio role in The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1954).

Father, with K.T. Stevens, of sons Chris Marlowe and Jeffrey Marlowe.

Ex-son-in-law of Sam Wood.

Ex-brother-in-law of Jeane Wood and Joe Sawyer.

Bears a strong resemblance to actor Richard Carlson.