Actor
Guest for Stand By Me
Marshall Bell is one of Hollywood’s top character actors having been in over ninety feature films and television series. Although discovering a passion for acting in high school, Bell was discouraged as a young man to purse the craft as a professional career. After working as a business consultant for twenty years, Bell meet director Alan Parker at a dinner party and subsequently Mr. Parker cast Bell, at the age of 42, in a small yet pivotal role in the critically acclaimed film “Birdy.” Marshall went on to do such memorable films as “Stand By Me”, “Total Recall”, “Twins”, “Starship Troopers”, and “Natural Born Killers.” Some of the more recent projects Bell has appeared in are “Capote”, “The Astronaut Farmer”, “Nancy Drew”, and “Deadwood.” Mr. Bell resides in Los Angeles with his wife Milena Canonero, an Academy Award Winning costume designer.
