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- Birth nameRonald Richard Deleo
- Scott Marlowe was an American film, stage and television actor.
His first feature film role was in the 1954 production of Attila. Two years later, he starred as John Goodwin in an episode "In Summer Promise" on General Electric Theater. In 1957 he appeared as Private Meredith in the war movie Men in War. He appeared as Jimmy Budd, along with Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Davis, in the episode "The Long Shadow" in Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater directed by Budd Boetticher.
Marlowe often took film roles of dysfunctional juveniles in a series of films made during the 1950s and 1960s, including The Scarlet Hour (1956), The Restless Breed (1957), The Cool and the Crazy (1958), Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959), The Subterraneans (1960), and A Cold Wind in August (1961). Marlowe appeared four times between 1963 and 1966 on James Arness's CBS western Gunsmoke. In 1964, Marlowe appeared as Lee Hewitt in the episode "The Roper" on the NBC western, Bonanza. In 1970, he guest starred as Billy Kells in the episode "The Experiment" on CBS's Lancer series.
Marlowe also appeared on stage. His most highly acclaimed such performance was at the Chicago Civic Theatre in a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was a founding member of Theatre West in Los Angeles.- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast
- From the mid-1950s, carved out a niche playing delinquent juveniles.
- Handsome 1950s actor with whom Tab Hunter had a brief fling, as Hunter revealed in his autobiography, Marlowe was a bisexual who once courted Natalie Wood.
- Founder of the Los Angeles Theatre West.
- Scott was 1/2 brother of rock star brothers Dean and Robert DeLeo the guitar and bassist of rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
- Was on Francis Ford Coppola's shortlist for both the roles of Michael and Sonny Corleone in The Godfather.
- [on his early film career] Those early movies made me somewhat of a teen icon . . . Kids in those days enjoyed defying authority. I never really enjoyed going out on the town much, I didn't drink and smoked only occasionally. The studios in those days wanted their stars to act on and off the screen. As I was a rebel on-screen I had to behave like one [off-screen].
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