Early Life and Career
Marshall was born Everett Eugene Grunz in Owatonna, Minnesota, the son of Hazel Irene (née Cobb; 1892–1975) and Charles G. Grunz (1882–1959). He attended both Carleton College and the University of Minnesota. During his life, he chose not to reveal what "E. G." stood for, telling most people it stood for "Everybody's Guess". According to the Social Security Death Index, even his Social Security card showed his full name as: "E G Marshall".
Although most familiar for his later television and movie roles, E. G. Marshall also had a distinguished Broadway career. 1n 1968, having already appeared in the original New York productions of The Skin of Our Teeth and The Iceman Cometh, Marshall would join Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Julie Harris, Kim Stanley, and 45 others to make up the first group of actors granted membership in the newly formed Actors Studio in 1948. In subsequent years, he'd land the leading roles in The Crucible and Waiting for Godot. In 1972, he returned to the live stage to play the title role in Macbeth in Richmond, Virginia, under the direction of Keith Fowler From January 1974 until February 1982, Marshall was the original host of the popular nightly radio drama, The CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
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