Marc Lawrence
Actor Marc Lawrence died of heart failure in Palm Springs, about 160 km east of Los Angeles, on Nov. 27. He was 95.
The Brooklyn-born (as Max Goldsmith) rough-looking actor, who once described himself as “pock-marked and oily-skinned,” appeared in more than 100 films from the early 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century, generally playing vicious outlaws.
Having begun his acting career with Eva Le Gallienne’s repertory company, Lawrence moved to Los Angeles in 1932 and started playing small parts in films. Four years later, he landed a contract at Harry Cohn’s Columbia Pictures.
Among his dozens of films during that period are Final Hour (1936); Criminals of the Air (1937), with a very young Rita Hayworth (with whom Lawrence claimed [...]
