#T.H.R.U.S.H.

[onceuponatimeinthe70s]

All I Want For Xmas.....

Paul Fitzpatrick: December 2024 Is a bloody Johnny Seven gun!Yep, six decades on I have a recurring dream of waking up and finding that magnificent howitzer under the Xmas tree. I’m not sure why as kids we were so obsessed with guns, weapons and general warfare in the era of ‘Give Peace a Chance’, perhaps it was a way of bonding with parents & grandparents who’d all experienced the war in some…

[pippinoftheshire]

Mwhahahaha I was actually on my laptop in time for once!

Well, It's Sunday for ME anyway, so...

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(I think this is seven... but i seem to be struggling with numbers today, so apologies if it's six or eight instead lol)

From The Istanbul Affair:

Solo props his chin on his palm with a smirk, leaning back to regard the other man. “Usually, I get people to buy me a drink before I start making friendly with them.” Santos scoffs, but doesn’t flee the scene. It’s a start. “The weather,” says Solo, shrugging in one languid roll of his shoulders. “Scenery. Time without anyone breathing down my neck, take your pick.” Let the man do what he will with that small flag. Solo’s not going to mount the bar and wave it for all to see.

Tagging @justabigoldnerd, @falling-into-peril, @vnyu73, @huggiebird,

@heytheredeann, @cha-melodius, @the-golden-comet, @nicijones,

@ikeepwatchinghelicopters, @bighandsforabigheart, @too-young-to-fall-in-love, @inherited-by-ocelot

and anyone else who wants to join!

[justabigoldnerd]

Ten Opening Lines

Thank you so much @cha-melodius and @pippinoftheshire for the tags!!

Rules: list the first line of the last ten (10) stories you published. Look to see any patterns you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any.

1. "Command Me To Be Well"

God-fucking-dammit.

2. "Where We've Been, Where We Have Bled"

All the air in the room evaporates in an instant.

3. "Take My Hand (Take My Whole Life Too)"

The lights are dim, the music a low, steady pulse.

4. "You Arrived Like Sunlight In The Gloom"

Thunder cracked across the dark sky, making the young tiefling flinch and duck.

5. "And This Little Masochist"

A hitch of breath.

6. "My Very Thoughts Are Cursed"

Ithaca goes four years without so much as an overcast day.

7. "Needing/Getting"

The air changes, and all the eyes in the room turn predatory.

8. "Got A Room And A Place For Two"

He's not sure why, but Illya is a bundle of nerves as he tacks Alexei, his work lit by the falling rays of a dying sun.

9. "A Thousand Teeth (And Yours Among Them)"

The saloon is old.

10. "When The Winds Begin To Sing"

The event was a black tie dinner party, thrown by the affluent Madame Emilia– a powerful T.H.R.U.S.H. official with deadly secrets.

It looks like I've been opening with the building of atmosphere, lately!! Interesting!!

No pressure tagging @huggiebird @happybean17 @falling-into-peril @heytheredeann @bighandsforabigheart

@kcscribbler @mybelovedillya @the-golden-comet @thattripleabattery @too-young-to-fall-in-love

@times-up-alone-tonight @vnyu73 @nicijones @prettyboynapoleonsolo @fandom-meet-fanthem

And an Open Tag for anyone else who wants to join!!! 💕💕💕

[girlsofcomics]

Siren

-Real name: Lorelei Circe

-A.k.a.:-

-Publisher: DC Comics

-Type: Human

-Afilliations: T.H.R.U.S.H.

-Powers: Adaptive, controls minds with her sing.

[tromroan]

Why do I not draw in greyscale more often? Also I love Napoleon and Angelique very much

[imsupposedtobestudying-whoops]

Why do I not draw in greyscale more often? Also I love Napoleon and Angelique very much

[pippinoftheshire]

thanks for the tag @willtheweaver <3

My words: Fortune, hope, desire, voice

Your Words: Sunlight, vitriol, gleam, sharp

Fortune: Appears to be MISSING???!

Hope (The Istanbul Affair):

But Illya doesn’t let himself think about it, not yet. Because as the hours roll into days, into a week, there’s no sign of T.H.R.U.S.H, and Illya begins to allow himself to hope that this mission will drag on into a month or more. It’s selfish of him, he knows, but he’s... well, he’s happy.

Desire: HOW HAVE I NEVER USED THIS WORD?????

Voice (The Istanbul Affair):

No, you wouldn’t have… says that little voice, and Illya shakes it off with a growl.

tagging @justabigoldnerd, @the-golden-comet, @nicijones

@heytheredeann, @too-young-to-fall-in-love, @prettyboynapoleonsolo

@fandom-meet-fanthem,

Find the word tag

Thanks for the tag @nczaversnick

My words are: eye, send, open, shirt

Eye (from A Feather in the Forest): “Ridiculous.” Reed scoffed. “Unless you took the captain’s other eye, there is no way you got off so lightly.”

Send (from Snow on the Pines): “Send word to the outposts and the other villages. They have to know what happened.” Playa paused before adding “Don’t go out alone. For all we know, the conspirators are still together. Make sure the messengers all go out in groups, and are ready for a fight.”

Open(from Snow on the Pines): Playa saw that the door was open. Her heart sank.

Shirt (from Snow on the Pines): Like the other guards, he [ wore a close fitting leather helmet and a short shirt of bronze scales.

Tagging @mxxnlightwriting @finickyfelix @pippinoftheshire @melpomene-grey @mk-writes-stuff

@somethingclevermahogony @the-golden-comet @the-letterbox-archives @zackprincebooks @thecomfywriter and open tag

Your words are: Fortune, hope, desire, voice

[rustandruin]

The ideal Man from U.N.C.L.E. sequel would basically be an ode to “The Suburbia Affair” episode where after a year of missions and risking their lives and borderline flirting, Napoleon and Illya are forced to live together in a house in the suburbs as they surveillance their neighbours in search of an in-hiding scientist who holds the plans for a deadly weapon that can threaten world peace. Only with Gabby there, there is only one bed and, oh look, guess they have to share.

It’s an hour and a half of Illya and Napoleon bickering over things like Napoleon bringing home food or eating while at “work” when Illya — who claimed he was the better, more observant spy and thus deserved this assignment — spends all day having to cook and clean and run errands just to fit in with everyone else. He’s a deadly machine that could kill someone in their sleep, but here he is, being forced to make small talk about Mrs. Novak’s dog Mitzi, and being chided over his lawn watering technique by Bernard, a retired music teacher. (Do assassins try and attack? Of course. But he dispatches them effortlessly, while also pretending to wash his barely driven car.)

We see them have to throw a barbecue for all the neighbours to get to know them, and maybe while they’re forced to entertain and keep everyone distracted, Gabby breaks into different houses trying to look for clues. Napoleon keeps everyone topped up, charming them with stories about “work” and demuring when Mrs. Halifax offers to set him up with her newly-divorced niece. (“I don’t think that would suit me,” he tells her, staring at Illya the whole time as he fights the urge to stab Bernard with his grill fork. He smiles and looks back at her. “I’m married to my work, I’m afraid.”)

They eventually work out that the scientist is Bernard, and that the niece Mrs. Halifax kept trying to set Napoleon up with is a member of T.H.R.U.S.H. She’s been trying to investigate them, or at least learn what they knew by planting a bug. Unfortunately, her plans were foiled when Illya spilled wine on the bug in a fit of jealousy over Napoleon going out with her after all. Sure, he claims that Napoleon gets all the more interesting parts of the mission, but Napoleon’s sardonic joke about how he at least doesn’t have to always be a honeypot strikes deep because a) he would be an excellent honeypot if allowed the chance. He was always the best in his class. Napoleon’s seen his file. He knows that. b) and well, there is no b. He just knows he doesn’t like it and it’s a bad idea, just like all the other ones the dumb American has. (It had nothing to do with his dumb smile and the stray curl that falls on his face, or the way he reads the paper at breakfast. It has nothing to do with the way he’s asked Illya how he’s looked before he headed downstairs, almost daring Illya to comment on his poorly knotted tie and complete lack of knowledge of fashion. And it certainly has nothing to do with the fact that they were supposed to play a game of chess, like they’d been saying they would all week, their mutual taunts growing and building.)

[krinsbez]

Super Pulp Heroes: It returns

So, now that I’ve committed to actually reading some classic Pulp Hero stuffs, I wanna give a go at reviving Super Pulp Heroes.

What is Super Pulp Heroes, you ask? Creating a universe populated by an array of Pulp Heroes (using my admittedly somewhat loose and expansive definition) and a selection of of the Pulpier DC and Marvel characters, which would be further pulpified.

Since many of these characters come from different decades, the whole thing is being set in a stylized, timeless setting, ala BTAS, where men wear hats, cars have sideboards, and there are Zeppelins in the air, but minorities have rights, everyone has cellphones, and the internet exists. As such, the War (which stands in for any war in a character’s backstory) ended within living memory, and another is brewing overseas, but people in the States haven’t quite accepted it yet.

A few notes:

-For purposes of encouraging interaction between characters, characters who live in various fictionopolises are being moved to their RL equivalents. Thus Batman lives in Manhattan, The Spirit lives in Chicago, etc.

-I have tentatively decided that the enemy in the previous War was Hydra, and that the enemy in the War that’s coming is the Circle Trigonists; subversive outfits like T.H.R.U.S.H. or S.P.E.C.T.R.E. will be, essentially, either Hydra die-hards or Circle Trigonist fifth columnists. Likewise various Nazi or Communist villains; who is what, I haven’t decided yet, and am willing to hear input. This is subject to change if someone has a better idea.

-I am considering mashing up various future and past eras, as well, not sure.

-I’m also doing a version of the project on other platforms, and I may share ideas from there here and vice versa.

Going forward, I intent to post a mixture of old ideas, new ideas, and questions for discussion. I welcome input from everyone out there who is interested.

[redshirtgal]

At the end  of the last article, you were promised a follow-up on Jay Jones and other TOS stars he had acted with. So what is this poster of Rough Night in Jericho doing here? Afraid you’ll have to read on to find out. But there are plenty of other Six Degrees of Trek instances involving Jay Jones.

Remember, his first television stunt job was in The Man from U.N.C.L.E was as Robert Vaughn’s stunt double but he also got to do some acting in the episode “Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum.” But we also see Illya Kuryakin being confronted by two T.H.R.U.S.H goons. Look closely at them. We’ve seen them before, but where? (Thanks to Brad Filipone for both photos!)

The T.H.R.U.S.H. henchman on the left in the episode was played by Pete Kellett who also played Kirk’s henchman Farrell in the Star Trek episode  “Mirror, Mirror.” And Dave Armstrong appeared as the henchman on the right. Armstrong later appeared on TOS as Kartan in “Operation: Annihilate!”

Actually, Jay and Pete would later appear together as Klingons in “The Day of the Dove.”

In the Bonanza episode “Kingdom of Fear” we see Jay Jones as a bad guy who tries to use his bullwhip on Hoss. To the left in this photo is his boss, a local judge who hires men to capture passing strangers and put them to work as slaves.  Can you name the actor and Star Trek episode he appeared in? Hint: He was in the first episode broadcast on NBC.

Maybe seeing the character will jog your memory. Remember him from “The Man Trap”? Professor Carter, married to Nancy, Dr. McCoy’s former love was played by Alfred Ryder. And he also was the actor who played the judge in the Bonanza episode.

Another connection - “Kingdom of Fear” was directed by Joe Pevney, who directed many of the best Star Trek episodes. He is shown above directing the episode “The Immunity Syndrome.”

We had already discussed Jay’s appearance as a demon in the Kung Fu episode “One Step to Darkness.” In that same episode was a doctor (on the left)  who treated Caine and other children for malaria. That doctor was played by Lloyd Kino and we’ve seen him before as well.

He appeared as Wu, Captain Tracey’s Kohm guard in “The Omega Glory.”

And now, we finally get to why the movie Rough Night in Jericho is mentioned at the beginning of this article. This movie contains not just Jay Jones as a stunt double and teacher for Slim Pickens, one of the villains in this movie, but there are nine ( count ‘em, 9) connections to Star Trek (counting Jones) Slim Pickens and George Peppard have a scene in this film where the two are involved in a brutal fight. Yarborough (Pickens) begins attacking Dolan (Peppard)  with his bullwhip (it has been established earlier he is an expert with the bullwhip). Once fighting gets more intense, two stuntmen jump in - Jay Jones for Slim Pickens and Bobby Clark for George Peppard. Remember Jay Jones had rodeo experience, which made him an excellent choice. He taught Pickens how to handle the bullwhip for the beginning of the scene and he took over for him when the hand to hand combat occurred.

Variety and other newspapers and magazines called this scene one of the most violent brawls in Western cinema at that time. Not only does Yarborough inflict quite a number of cuts to the body of Dolan but he and Dolan get into a bruising fight at the end. Dolan winds up killing Yarborough by bashing in his head with a club. You can bet Jay Jones and Bobby Clark handled a lot of the fight scenes.

One review mentioned it was easy to tell when Bobby Clark was in the scene instead of Peppard because Bobby’s hair was straw-colored and drier than Peppard’s own darker blonde hair (which was not dry at all). Take a look at the above photo. We don’t know for sure that this is Bobby Clark, but if you compare this person’s hair to George Peppard’s straighter blonde hair in this movie, there seem to be some differences. However, we could be completely wrong. By the way, Bobby Clark is credited in IMDb as a juror in the same movie but we couldn’t find him. It was not a traditional jury - mainly a gang of henchmen belong to Alex Flood (Dean Martin) gathered outside in the street on the site of a hanging.

Jay and Bobby had actually worked together before in Star Trek on the episode “Mirror, Mirror.” Jay was Scotty’s stunt double and Bobby was one of Chekov’s henchmen.

However, those two were not the only Star Trek: The Original Series actors to appear in Rough Night in Jericho. Above are two more of Flood’s hired hands, Torrey (appointed sheriff by Flood) and Simms. Both appeared on Star Trek, but on completely different episodes.

Torrey was played by Brad Weston who also played the one of the miners named Ed Appel in “The Devil in the Dark.” He and Jay Jones do share another place of honor in Trek history. Jay was considered for a recurring role with an accent, a character that we now know as Pavel Chekov. Coincidentally, Brad was also briefly considered for the same unspecified part. The character of Simms was played by Steve Sandor one year before he landed his role as Lars, Uhura’s drill thrall, in “The Gamesters of Triskelion.” Interestingly, another person who appeared in this episode with him was also in Rough Night in Jericho.

In the movie, Angelique Pettyjohn plays a bar girl who catches Dolan’s eye as he walks into Flood’s bar. But she was also Captain Kirk’s drill thrall in the previously mentioned episode of Star Trek. One more Trek actor/stuntman appeared in Rough Night in Jericho.

Bobby Herron was a stuntman who made several appearances on Star Trek, most notably that of Sam, the crewman in the gym who made the mistake of laughing at the main character in  “Charlie X.” He appears in the credits of Rough Night in Jericho as a stuntman, but of course, it would be nearly impossible to pick him out.

And now the 9th and final TOS connection with Rough Night in Jericho - and it’s not an actor. Albert Whitlock was the matte supervisor for the film and did the matte painting on the left for the background scene of the explosion that rocked Flood’s ranch and mines. We are familiar with his many matte paintings for Star Trek, including the one on the left from “The Cage.”

Finding several Trek actors in another TV series episode or movie is not all that unusual. Even stunt actors often popped up in other places before or after their Trek appearance. But as we were working on the Jay Jones article, we kept running into photos of these connections in so many of the shows and films he did, we figured we would just save them all and present them in a separate article. Thus ends another round of Six (or more) Degrees of Trek. Hope you enjoyed it!

[pippinoftheshire]

for @justabigoldnerd, @yallwildinrn, @cha-melodius, @too-young-to-fall-in-love, and @amazingrace53

So sorry: but I couldn't help myself <3

Illya has never been quite so aware of his skin. It feels like electricity fuzzing along a guidewire, tingling and spitting with sparks. He does not do well in small spaces. Never has. The thought of walls closing in often leads to him having to go outside and force himself to look up into the expanse of sky. That blue that seems to go on forever.

That being said, he has also never noticed that Solo’s aftershave smells like bergamot and lilac, which would probably make him laugh a little, if they were not currently occupied with something called: if you move you die.

This is not how he had thought the day would go.

It had started off simply enough. A briefing from Waverly, detailing the man they were going to be stealing from. Gaby was off in Paris on a mission of her own for once, which left the two of them. The man, a not-quite-as-important-member of T.H.R.U.S.H. but no less cruel, held residence in London.

Doctor Russel Thomason was his name. and Illya had been feeling rather confident about getting in and then getting out as quickly as they could. And it had been working fine. Until the man had had the indecency to arrive home early and come wandering into his office, forcing Solo and Illya to hide in the first place they could find.

Under his desk.

It’s awkward. Solo’s legs hooked over Illya’s thighs; his back pressed against the wood. While Illya ends up hunched over him in a position that, while silence is deadly necessary, does draw a suggestive eyebrow from the American that makes Illya want to hit him.

iz lubevie k bogu thinks Illya, trying to hold in a growl as Solo tries to move. The American offers an apologetic wince, heel digging into the small of Illya’s back.

The Russian can hear as the doctor moves around the office, opening drawers, stapling files. It bothers him, but they already have what they need, the faded manilla folder tucked into Solo’s jacket. The American has his gun in hand too, but that will do them no good if he cannot move fast enough to fire it properly. It Is no small secret that the doctor is a highly suspicious man. Who knows what he has on him…

“My nay mozem thuck prodolzhat...” breathes Solo, and his voice is like a flame on Illya’s ear. They are close enough that it is hardly any sound at all. “Peril-“

Illya’s fingers find Solo’s lips. The universal gesture of shhhhh. The American subsides with a little frown, though there is something in his shaded blue eyes that draws an odd feeling into Illya’s chest.

It seems like an eternity, but at long last, the doctor leaves. It takes the two of them a minute to figure out how to untangle themselves from each other, and when at last they both spill out from under the desk, Illya is bothered to find that he misses the contact.

Bozhe, this is the last thing he needs.

Solo gets to his feet, dusting himself off. He looks as immaculate as always, though his pomade has released a curl to fall over his brow. Illya’s fingers itch with the urge to tuck it away. “Well, that was tense.”

“Utikhomirit,” hisses Illya, shooting a glance at the door. He can hear a grammaphone downstairs. So the doctor is home to stay. Luckily there is a rather large window.

“I though you were gonna kiss me for a minute, while we were down there,” says Solo, and it sounds like a tease. Something Illya can ignore if he wants. But somehow, somewhere, words come sneaking out of him against his will and he ends up saying,

“I… I wanted to.”

He freezes at the admission, terrified at his own boldness. His throat feels tight. But Solo merely grins and raises an eyebrow.

“You’re welcome to kiss me now, if you want.”

Then Illya finds the familiar glare, though he feels as if it is lacking its usual fire when he aims it at the American. “Later, Cowboy. We need to go. Before doctor comes back.”

Solo grins. “Alright, Peril. It’s a date.”

What has he gotten himself into?

<3

[justabigoldnerd]

Thank you so much @kcscribbler for the tag!!!

Here's seven sentences from my almost complete Winter Fic Exchange!!! 💕💕💕

They looked relaxed, comfortable, so Illya pulled on his jacket once again and slipped out of the front door, mug in his hands. The cold welcomed him with biting affection, tugging playfully at his hair and whistling hello. The old wood underfoot creaked as he made his way to sit on the front step. Illya stood for a moment, his eyes closed, to listen for any lurking T.H.R.U.S.H. agents, then settled in to watch the sun make its bed in the thick treetops. A sharp gust of wind summoned goosebumps along his arms and he drew his knees up closer to his chest. He didn't spend the evening outside alone. Behind him, the door cracked open, to the chagrin of its hinges, and to Illya's surprise, it was Solo's voice who asked, “May I join you?"

No pressure tagging @huggiebird @happybean17 @falling-into-peril @heytheredeann @pippinoftheshire

@bighandsforabigheart @mybelovedillya @cha-melodius @the-golden-comet @thattripleabattery

@too-young-to-fall-in-love @times-up-alone-tonight @vnyu73 @nicijones @prettyboynapoleonsolo

And an Open Tag for anyone who wants to join!! 💕💕💕💕

[darinjones]

The same U.N.C.L.E. Secretary being ‘knockout’ gassed/neutralised by two T.H.R.U.S.H. Agents, ‘Break-in’ scene, U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters New York (secret base), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Pilot episode ‘SOLO’, 1964.

[blackkudos]

William Marshall

William Horace Marshall (August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003) was an American actor, director, and opera singer. He is best known for his title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream (1973), as the "King of Cartoons" on the 1980s television show Pee-wee's Playhouse beginning with its second season, and an appearance as Dr. Richard Daystrom on the original Star Trek television series. He had a commanding height of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), as well as a deep bass voice.

Biography

Early life and career

Marshall was born in Gary, Indiana, the son of Thelma (née Edwards) and Vereen Marshall, who was a dentist. He attended New York University as an art student, but then trained for a theatre career at the Actors Studio, at the American Theatre Wing, and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.

He made his Broadway debut in 1944 in Carmen Jones. Among his many other Broadway appearances, he understudied Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in Peter Pan in 1950, then played the leading role of De Lawd in the 1951 revival of The Green Pastures (a role he repeated in a BBC telecast of the play in 1958). He performed in Shakespeare plays many times on the stage in the United States and Europe, including the title role in at least six productions of Othello. His Othello (which was later captured in a video production in 1981), was called by Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times "the best Othello of our time," continuing:

...nobler than [Godfrey] Tearle, more martial than [John] Gielgud, more poetic than [Frederick] Valk. From his first entry, slender and magnificently tall, framed in a high Byzantine arch, clad in white samite, mystic, wonderful, a figure of Arabian romance and grace, to his last plunging of the knife into his stomach, Mr Marshall rode without faltering the play's enormous rhetoric, and at the end the house rose to him.

Marshall even played Othello in a jazz musical version, Catch My Soul, with Jerry Lee Lewis as Iago, with Center Theatre Group at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 1968.

He also portrayed the roles of Paul Robeson and Frederick Douglass on stage . Marshall had researched Douglass' life for years and portrayed him on television in Frederick Douglass: Slave and Statesman, which he co-produced in 1983.

Film and television career

Marshall's career on screen began in the 1952 film Lydia Bailey as a Haitian leader. He followed that with a prominent role as Glycon, comrade and fellow gladiator to Victor Mature in the 1954 film Demetrius and the Gladiators. His demeanor, voice and stature gave him a wide range, though he was ill-suited for the subservient roles that many black actors of his generation were most frequently offered. He was a leader of the Mau-Mau uprising in Something of Value (1957), and Attorney General Edward Brooke in The Boston Strangler (1968). He probably received the most notice for his role in the vampire film Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream. In later years, Marshall played the King of Cartoons on Pee-wee's Playhouse, replacing actor Gilbert Lewis, during the 1980s. (The character's catchphrase "Let...the cartoooon...begin!" became immensely popular.)

In the early 1950s, Marshall starred briefly in a series about black police officers, entitled Harlem Detective. The show was canceled when Marshall was named as a communist in the anti-communist newsletter Counterattack.

Despite the blacklisting because of his supposed communist connections, Marshall managed to continue appearing in both television and films. In 1962, Marshall appeared on the British spy series Danger Man in the episode titled "Deadline" and in 1964 Marshall played the role of travelling opera singer Thomas Bowers on the Bonanza episode "Enter Thomas Bowers." Additionally in 1964, he appeared, with actor Ivan Dixon, as the leader of a newly independent African nation and as a T.H.R.U.S.H. agent in the first-season episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. entitled "The Vulcan Affair". In 1968 he appeared as Dr. Richard Daystrom in the Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer". In 1969, he had a special guest appearance as the character Amalek in an episode of The Wild Wild West entitled "The Night of the Egyptian Queen".

He also won two local Emmys for producing and performing in a PBS production, As Adam Early in the Morning, a theatre piece originally performed on stage. He also was featured in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled, "The Jar", with actors Pat Buttram and George Lindsey.

Later life and death

In addition to acting and producing, Marshall taught acting at various universities including the University of California, Irvine, and the Mufandi Institute, an African-American arts and music institution in the Watts section of Los Angeles. He did similar work at Chicago's ETA Creative Arts Foundation, which in 1992 named Marshall one of its Epic Men of the 20th century.

For 42 years, Marshall was the partner of Sylvia Gussin Jarrico, former wife of blacklisted screenwriter Paul Jarrico. Marshall died June 11, 2003, from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. He was survived by sons Tariq, Malcolm, and Claude Marshall and daughter Gina Loring. Eulogists at his funeral included Sidney Poitier, Ivan Dixon, Paul Winfield, and Marla Gibbs.

Marshall was considered by many to be a much underrated actor and one who never got his due. Some have remarked that Marshall should have had a much more successful and larger screen career, even saying that Marshall would have been a perfect choice for the role Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian.

Filmography

Lydia Bailey (1952) - King Dick

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) - Glycon

Something of Value (1957) - Leader - Intellectual in Suit

Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957) - Ubal, the genie

La fille de feu (1958) - Stork

Piedra de toque (1963) - African Missionary (uncredited)

To Trap a Spy (1964) - Sekue Ashumen

The Hell with Heroes (1968) - Al Poland

The Boston Strangler (1968) - Atty. Gen. Edward W. Brooke

Skullduggery (1970) - Attorney General

The Mask of Sheba (1970) - Captain Condor Sekallie

Zig Zag (1970) - Morris Bronson

Honky (1971) - Dr. Craig Smith

Blacula (1972) - Blacula / Mamuwalde

Scream Blacula Scream (1973) - Blacula / Mamuwalde

Abby (1974) - Bishop Garnet Williams

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - William Klinger - Attorney General

The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980) - Mr. Jason

Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986) - Dr. Dean

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) - Pirate Captain (segment "Video Pirates")

Maverick (1994) - Riverboat Poker Player

Sorceress (1995) - John Geiger

Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996) - Dr. Benjamin Michaels (final film role)

Wikipedia

[tromroan]

Hey Everybody! I’ve been writing a Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic up on AO3. It’s a dramatic, longer, serious storyline. Napoleon and Illya are OF COURSE parrrrrrtners but it is a GEN fic. It makes me day if people like it or read it, so if you’re interested you should check it out! :D As the world began to fade into darkness, blurring and swimming in front of you, you caught glimpses of the T.H.R.U.S.H. agent before you, a handsome, if subtly scarred face, dark hair, dark eyes, lips drawn tightly together in a derisive sneer. The man grabbed your lapels and pulled you closer, so you were face to face, staring into your eyes to make sure the drugs were taking effect. They were, for now there were many T.H.R.U.S.H. agents, all identical, half blurred and spinning round you in a dizzying, nauseating swirl. You struggled to focus on the face, something was familiar, something your addled brain couldn't quite place...

The brown eyes, the dark slick hair, the sneer. Finally, with a flare of recognition, you realized before you kneeled the deadly, devastating, most infamous traitor to have ever turned their back on U.N.C.L.E. You reached your arms up to scratch at the man's eyes, get your fingers around his throat, do anything to satisfy this sudden need for justice, retribution, revenge... but the world was slipping away, and you weren't strong enough, your fingers feebly tracing the other agent's throat.The T.H.R.U.S.H. agent smirked at your pointless attempt and pulled you up roughly, smiling, leaning in close to your ear to say one final line before passing you off to a second T.H.R.U.S.H. agent waiting by the door. Waiting with tools, and needles, and drugs, and instruments of…. persuasion.And as your eyes finally closed and your mind slipped into unnatural unconsciousness, you heard Napoleon Solo whisper in your ear.“Looks like you’re out of a job”. Chapters: 7/? Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin, Alexander Waverly, Mr. Waverly, Angelique (Man From U.N.C.L.E.) Additional Tags: Undercover, Stress, Death, Canon-Typical Violence, THRUSH, gen but the boys love each other you know how it is, Drugs, Torture, Espionage, Angst, Hurt/Comfort

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Hey Everybody! I’ve been writing a Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic up on AO3. It’s a dramatic, longer, serious storyline. Napoleon and Illya are OF COURSE parrrrrrtners but it is a GEN fic. It makes me day if people like it or read it, so if you’re interested you should check it out! :D As the world began to fade into darkness, blurring and swimming in front of you, you caught glimpses of the T.H.R.U.S.H. agent before you, a handsome, if subtly scarred face, dark hair, dark eyes, lips drawn tightly together in a derisive sneer. The man grabbed your lapels and pulled you closer, so you were face to face, staring into your eyes to make sure the drugs were taking effect. They were, for now there were many T.H.R.U.S.H. agents, all identical, half blurred and spinning round you in a dizzying, nauseating swirl. You struggled to focus on the face, something was familiar, something your addled brain couldn't quite place...

The brown eyes, the dark slick hair, the sneer. Finally, with a flare of recognition, you realized before you kneeled the deadly, devastating, most infamous traitor to have ever turned their back on U.N.C.L.E. You reached your arms up to scratch at the man's eyes, get your fingers around his throat, do anything to satisfy this sudden need for justice, retribution, revenge... but the world was slipping away, and you weren't strong enough, your fingers feebly tracing the other agent's throat.The T.H.R.U.S.H. agent smirked at your pointless attempt and pulled you up roughly, smiling, leaning in close to your ear to say one final line before passing you off to a second T.H.R.U.S.H. agent waiting by the door. Waiting with tools, and needles, and drugs, and instruments of…. persuasion.And as your eyes finally closed and your mind slipped into unnatural unconsciousness, you heard Napoleon Solo whisper in your ear.“Looks like you’re out of a job”. Chapters: 7/? Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin, Alexander Waverly, Mr. Waverly, Angelique (Man From U.N.C.L.E.) Additional Tags: Undercover, Stress, Death, Canon-Typical Violence, THRUSH, gen but the boys love each other you know how it is, Drugs, Torture, Espionage, Angst, Hurt/Comfort