Marshall Colt (born October 26, 1948) is an American management consultant and combat-decorated, former
captain
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in the
United States Navy
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in
San Diego
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, who was an
actor
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in film and television from 1976 to 1995.
He co-starred in the films '' North Dallas Forty'' (1979) and '' Jagged Edge'' (1985) as well as in the 1981–82
James Arness
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NBC
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police procedural
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''
McClain's Law
''McClain's Law'' is an American crime drama television series that aired on NBC during the 1981–1982 season. New episodes ended on March 20, and rebroadcasts continued until August 24, 1982.
Summary
The series starred former ''Gunsmoke'' lea ...
''.Alex McNeil, ''Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present,'' 4th ed., New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 535
Tulane University
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with a
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...
degree in
physics
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. In 1976, he made his acting debut as Nick in the
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
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History
The company was founded in 1968, as the East Bay's first resident ...
production of ''
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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'' and as Inspector William Holmer in the episode "Castle of Fear" of ABC's police drama ''
The Streets of San Francisco
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''.
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
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Family
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'' and in two episodes of
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen (born Christian Ludolf Ebsen Jr., April 2, 1908 – July 6, 2003), also known as Frank "Buddy" Ebsen, was an American actor and dancer, whose career spanned seven decades. One of his most famous roles was as Jed Clampett in the CBS ...
's CBS crime drama ''
Barnaby Jones
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''. He also played the role of Art Hartman in the
Nick Nolte
Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1991 film '' The Prince of Tides''. He received ...
film ''North Dallas Forty''.
Colt received second billing in the two-hour
made-for-TV film
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''
McClain's Law
''McClain's Law'' is an American crime drama television series that aired on NBC during the 1981–1982 season. New episodes ended on March 20, and rebroadcasts continued until August 24, 1982.
Summary
The series starred former ''Gunsmoke'' lea ...
'', broadcast in November 1981 as a pilot for the same-named police series in which Colt played young detective Harry Gates of the
San Pedro, California
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, Police Department, whose use of modern criminology methods placed him in contrast to his older partner, Jim McClain, played by James Arness, who employed the more traditional approach. ''McClain's Law'' premiered some six years after the ending of Arness's former ''
Gunsmoke
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''
western
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series. Colt's other regular series role was in the 1983–84 ABC drama ''
Lottery
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'' in which he co-starred as
IRS
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agent Eric Rush, alongside lottery winnings distributor Patrick Sean Flaherty, played by
Ben Murphy
Benjamin Edward Murphy (born Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr., March 6, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Kid Curry in the ABC television series '' Alias Smith and Jones''.
Early life
Murphy was born in Jonesboro, ...
.
In 1988, Colt was cast as Jack Wheeler, the chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, in the television film ''To Heal a Nation'', based on the establishment of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Other roles in television films were as Steven Beck in '' Beverly Hills Madam'', as Charles McLean in ''Maggie'', as Kelly Hancock in ''Mercy or Murder?'', as Andrew Winkler in ''Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story'', and as Douglas Erickson in ''Deceptions''.
Colt was cast as Bobby Slade in '' Jagged Edge'' (1985), as Christopher Dollanganger in ''
Flowers in the Attic
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'' (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
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's CBS drama, ''
Murder, She Wrote
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'' and in 1995 in
Chuck Norris
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's ''
Walker, Texas Ranger
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'', in the role of Lieutenant Lee Corbin in the episode "Whitewater, Part I."
Psychology career
Colt obtained his
Master of Science
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in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy, from
Pepperdine University
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in
Malibu, California
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. He also holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with a concentration in health psychology, accredited by the
American Psychological Association
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(APA) from
Fielding Graduate University
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in
Santa Barbara, California
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. After an APA-accredited, adult
neuropsychology
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internship at the VA Hospital, Denver, he served a six-month post-doctoral residency in pediatric neuropsychology in
Salt Lake City
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. Colt has been in private practice since 1994.
Colt was formerly based in
Denver
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, where he frequently appeared on radio and television as an expert on psychological topics, including
PTSD
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. He also wrote the syndicated "Ethics" column for the ''Denver Business Journal.'' He subsequently relocated to
San Diego
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, and then
Orange County, California
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, where he operates Corporate Psychological Management, a consultancy he founded in 1996.
TCM Movie Database
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