A descendant of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, this veteran of over 40 films is best remembered as the star of "Daktari", a popular family TV series set in Africa that ran on CBS from January 1966 to January 1969. The inspiration for the show was the feature film "Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion" (1964) which Thompson starred in and co-wrote.
Cast in naive juvenile roles in MGM films of the… See Full Marshall Thompson Biography