Veteran character actor John Marley was one of those familiar but nameless faces that TV and filmgoers didn't take a shine to until the late 1960s, when he had hit middle age. Distinctive for his craggy mug, dark bushy brows and upswept silvery hair, his life (born in 1907) started out amid tough surroundings in Harlem, New York as the son of Russian immigrants. A high-school dropout headed for trouble, he managed to avoid the gangland trappings by joining a theater group, which eventually l ...[Read Story]