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Marshall N. Colt Born October 26, 1948
New Orleans, Louisiana, USAResidence San Diego, California Alma mater Tulane University Pepperdine University
Fielding Graduate UniversityOccupation Psychologist since 1994
Actor, 1976-1995Spouse Elizabeth Lynn Colt Marshall N. Colt (born October 26, 1948) is a marriage, family, and life enhancement therapist in San Diego, California,[1] 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.[2]
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Acting career
A native of New Orleans, 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.[2]
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,[3] 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.[4] 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,[5] 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[5] and in 1995 in Chuck Norris's Walker, Texas Ranger, 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 University 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.[1] He resides there with his wife, Elizabeth Lynn Colt (born c. 1964).
References
- ^ a b "Dr. Marshall Colt". advance-counseling-denver-boulder.com. http://www.advance-counseling-denver-boulder.com/mental-health.htm. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
- ^ a b Alex McNeil, Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present, 4th ed., New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 535
- ^ McNeil, Total Television, p. 491
- ^ Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Comprehensive Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946-Present, New York: Ballantine Publishers, 1992, p. 525
- ^ a b "Marshall Colt (Overview)". movies.msn.com. http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity/marshall-colt/. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
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- American television actors
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- People from New Orleans, Louisiana
- People from the Greater Los Angeles Area
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- People from San Diego, California
- Tulane University alumni
- Pepperdine University alumni
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