Marshall Colt
Encyclopedia
Marshall N. Colt is a marriage, family, and life enhancement therapist in San Diego
, California
, who was an actor of film and television from 1976 to 1995. He co-starred in sixteen episodes of the James Arness
crime series McClain's Law
, which aired on NBC
in the 1981-1982 season.
, Louisiana
, Colt graduated in 1970 from Tulane University
with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. In 1976, he made his acting debut as Inspector William Holmer in the episode "Castle of Fear" of ABC
's police drama The Streets of San Francisco
, starring Karl Malden
and Michael Douglas
.
In 1978, Colt appeared as Sam Pray in "Great Expectations", the fourth episode of the short-lived CBS
legal drama The Paper Chase
, starring John Houseman
. In 1979, he appeared on the ABC drama Family
and in two episodes of Buddy Ebsen
's CBS crime drama Barnaby Jones
. He also played the role of Al Hartman in the Nick Nolte
film North Dallas Forty
.
On the hour-long McClain's Law, Colt plays young detective Harry Gates of the San Pedro, California, Police Department, whose use of modern criminology methods places him in contrast to his older partner, Jim McClain, played by Arness, who employs the more traditional approach. McClain's Law premiered some six years after the ending of Arness's former Gunsmoke
western
series.
In the 1983-1984 season, Colt appeared as Eric Rush, an Internal Revenue Service
agent, in the 17-episode hour-long ABC drama series Lottery!
His co-star Ben Murphy
portrayed Patrick Sean Flaherty, the representative of Ireland's Intersweep Lottery who informed the winners of their good fortune. Each hour-long episode had three or four stories about lottery winners, with an epilogue showing each person a year after receiving his award. Murphy had formerly co-starred on the ABC western
series, Alias Smith and Jones
and the crime drama Griff
, with Lorne Greene
.
In 1988, Colt was cast as Jack Wheeler
, the chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
, in the television film To Heal a Nation, based on the establishment of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The roles of Jan Scruggs
and his wife, Becky, were played by Eric Roberts
, brother of Julia Roberts
, and Glynnis O'Connor
.
Other roles in television films were as Steven Beck in Beverly Hills Madam, as Charles McLean in Maggie, as Hancock in Mercy or Murder?, as Andrew Winkler in Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story, and as Douglas Erickson in Deceptions. Colt appeared in theater films as Bobby Slade in Jagged Edge
(1985), as Christopher Dollanganger in Flowers in the Attic
(1987), and as Donald Cleary in Illegally Yours
(1988).
His last roles in series television were in 1991 as Ross Corman in the episode "Tainted Lady" of Angela Lansbury
's CBS drama, Murder, She Wrote
and in 1995 in Chuck Norris
's Walker, Texas Ranger
, in the role of Lieutenant Lee Corbin in the episode "Whitewater, Part I."
in Malibu, California. He hold a Ph.D., also in clinical psychology with a concentration in health psychology, accredited by the American Psychological Association
from Fielding Graduate University
in Santa Barbara
, California. He has been in practice since 1994. Colt formerly was based in Denver
, Colorado
, where he frequently appeared on radio and television as an expert on psychological topics. He wrote the syndicated ethics column for the Denver Business Journal. He subsequently relocated to San Diego, where he is executive director of Advance Counseling - San Diego. He resides there with his wife, Elizabeth Lynn Colt (born c. 1964).
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, who was an actor of film and television from 1976 to 1995. He co-starred in sixteen episodes of the James Arness
James Arness
James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years...
crime series McClain's Law
McClain's Law
McClain's Law is an American crime drama television series that aired on NBC during the 1981-1982 season. New episodes ended on March 20, and rebroadcasts continued until August 24, 1982.-Summary:...
, which aired on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
in the 1981-1982 season.
Acting career
A native of New OrleansNew Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
, Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
, Colt graduated in 1970 from Tulane University
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. In 1976, he made his acting debut as Inspector William Holmer in the episode "Castle of Fear" of ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's police drama The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
, starring Karl Malden
Karl Malden
Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...
and Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the...
.
In 1978, Colt appeared as Sam Pray in "Great Expectations", the fourth episode of the short-lived CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
legal drama The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase (TV series)
The Paper Chase is a television series based on a 1970 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr., as well as a 1973 film based on the novel. It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at Harvard Law School.-Production:...
, starring John Houseman
John Houseman
John Houseman was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane...
. In 1979, he appeared on the ABC drama Family
Family (TV series)
Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. Creative control of the show was split between executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols...
and in two episodes of Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie...
's CBS crime drama Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. A spin-off from Cannon, the show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement...
. He also played the role of Al Hartman in the Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte
Nicholas King "Nick" Nolte is an American actor whose career has spanned over five decades, peaking in the 1990s when his commercial success made him one of the most popular celebrities of that decade.-Early life:...
film North Dallas Forty
North Dallas Forty
North Dallas Forty is a 1979 dramatic film starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, and G. D. Spradlin. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and based on the best selling novel by Peter Gent: the screenplay was by Kotcheff, Gent, Frank Yablans and Nancy Dowd ....
.
On the hour-long McClain's Law, Colt plays young detective Harry Gates of the San Pedro, California, Police Department, whose use of modern criminology methods places him in contrast to his older partner, Jim McClain, played by Arness, who employs the more traditional approach. McClain's Law premiered some six years after the ending of Arness's former Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
series.
In the 1983-1984 season, Colt appeared as Eric Rush, an Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
agent, in the 17-episode hour-long ABC drama series Lottery!
Lottery!
Lottery! is an American drama series premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean Flaherty, and Marshall Colt as Eric Rush...
His co-star Ben Murphy
Ben Murphy
Benjamin E. Murphy is an American actor. He is known for his role in the ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones, co-starring as Kid Curry, first with Pete Duel and later with Roger Davis.-Early life:...
portrayed Patrick Sean Flaherty, the representative of Ireland's Intersweep Lottery who informed the winners of their good fortune. Each hour-long episode had three or four stories about lottery winners, with an epilogue showing each person a year after receiving his award. Murphy had formerly co-starred on the ABC western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
series, Alias Smith and Jones
Alias Smith and Jones
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of Western cousin outlaws trying to reform...
and the crime drama Griff
Griff (TV series)
Griff is a 13-episode ABC crime drama starring Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy, which aired from September 29, 1973, to January 4, 1974. Nine months after the expiration of his nearly 14-year role as Ponderosa Ranch patriarch Ben Cartwright on NBC's Bonanza western series, the Canadian native Greene...
, with Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica...
.
In 1988, Colt was cast as Jack Wheeler
John P. Wheeler III
John Parsons Wheeler, III, known as Jack Wheeler , was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak , official of the Securities and Exchange Commission , chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation , member of the...
, the chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. , was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War. The memorial was...
, in the television film To Heal a Nation, based on the establishment of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
The roles of Jan Scruggs
Jan Scruggs
Jan Scruggs is best known for being the founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Scruggs served as a corporal in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, and upon completion of his service attended American University in Washington, D.C where he obtained a master's degree in counseling...
and his wife, Becky, were played by Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts
Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case...
, brother of Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
, and Glynnis O'Connor
Glynnis O'Connor
Glynnis O'Connor is an American actress, perhaps best known for her work in the mid-1970s, including her lead actress roles in the TV version of Our Town and the films Ode to Billy Joe and Jeremy, all of which co-starred Robby Benson.O'Connor was born in New York City, the daughter of stage, film...
.
Other roles in television films were as Steven Beck in Beverly Hills Madam, as Charles McLean in Maggie, as Hancock in Mercy or Murder?, as Andrew Winkler in Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story, and as Douglas Erickson in Deceptions. Colt appeared in theater films as Bobby Slade in Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge may refer to:*Jagged Edge , an American R&B singing group**Jagged Edge , 2006*Jagged Edge , a 1985 film starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Robert Loggia and Peter Coyote...
(1985), as Christopher Dollanganger in Flowers in the Attic
Flowers in the Attic
Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 novel by Virginia Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series, and was followed by Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger...
(1987), and as Donald Cleary in Illegally Yours
Illegally Yours
Illegally Yours is a 1988 comedy film set in St. Augustine, Florida where a series of comic mishaps take place involving a blackmailer, a corpse, an incriminating audiotape, an innocent woman who accidentally picks up the tape, and a pair of teenage blackmail victims...
(1988).
His last roles in series television were in 1991 as Ross Corman in the episode "Tainted Lady" of Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...
's CBS drama, Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...
and in 1995 in Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris is an American martial artist and actor. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do...
's Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, Texas Ranger
Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...
, in the role of Lieutenant Lee Corbin in the episode "Whitewater, Part I."
Psychologist
Colt obtained his Master of Science in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy, from Pepperdine UniversityPepperdine University
Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for Seaver College, the School of...
in Malibu, California. He hold a Ph.D., also in clinical psychology with a concentration in health psychology, accredited by the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...
from Fielding Graduate University
Fielding Graduate University
Fielding Graduate University, previously Fielding Graduate Institute, and The Fielding Institute, is an accredited, nonprofit post-graduate institution of higher learning based in Santa Barbara, California, USA....
in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
, California. He has been in practice since 1994. Colt formerly was based in Denver
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, where he frequently appeared on radio and television as an expert on psychological topics. He wrote the syndicated ethics column for the Denver Business Journal. He subsequently relocated to San Diego, where he is executive director of Advance Counseling - San Diego. He resides there with his wife, Elizabeth Lynn Colt (born c. 1964).