Garry Marsh

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Biography

Garry Marsh was the younger brother of Digby George Gerahty who as Robert Standish wrote the novel Elephant Walk adapted to film starring Elizabeth Taylor. Gerahty is the correct spelling of the family name according to a nephew of Garry and Digby. Digby was the prolific writer of some 80 novels, using pen names, Robert Standish, Stephen Lister, George Digby, and George Echlin.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Nationality
  • United Kingdom
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 21 June 1902
  • Place of birth
  • St Margarets· London
  • Death date
  • 1981-03-06
  • Death age
  • 79
  • Place of death
  • London
  • Spouses
  • Muriel Martin-Harvey

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Husband of Muriel Martin-Harvey.

Son-in-law of John Martin Harvey.

Brother-in-law of Michael Martin Harvey.

Heavy-set, balding British character actor, who excelled at exasperated or choleric authority figures and comic villains. Britains answer to Fred Clark, he started in leading roles during the early 1930s but soon found his niche playing second fiddle to, among others, George Formby.

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