Children Warne Marsh, Owen Marsh | ||
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Died 5 May 1941, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States Parents S. Charles Marsh, May T. Warne Siblings Mae Marsh, Marguerite Marsh, Frances Marsh, Mildred Marsh Movies The Women, The Great Ziegfeld, The Merry Widow, A Tale of Two Cities, Sweethearts Similar Margaret Booth, Hunt Stromberg, Allen M Davey, Joseph M Schenck, Herbert Stothart | ||
Oliver T. Marsh (January 30, 1892 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States – May 5, 1941 in Hollywood, California, United States) was a prolific Hollywood cinematographer. He worked on over eighty films just for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer alone. Some of the more notable productions he was involved with are: Sadie Thompson (1928), Rain (1932), The Merry Widow (1934), David Copperfield (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), San Francisco (1936) and Another Thin Man (1939). He and Allen Davey received Academy Honorary Awards "for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, Sweethearts" (1938) at the 11th Academy Awards. The pair were also nominated for Best Cinematography (Color) for Bitter Sweet (1940).
Marsh died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
He is the brother of actresses Marguerite Marsh (1888–1925) and Mae Marsh (1894–1968) and the father of jazz saxophonist Warne Marsh (1927–1987).