Scott Gregory Marlowe (born Ronald Richard DeLeo; June 24, 1932 – January 6, 2001)^[1] was a dramatic American film and television actor. He had starring roles in the teen exploitation film The Cool and the Crazy (1958, alongside Dick Bakalyan) and the May-December independent film, A Cold Wind in August (1961, opposite Lola Albright) and guest starred on episodes of dozens of TV series. He is the older half brother of Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo, band members of the Stone Temple Pilots. Marlowe was a founding member of Theatre West.^[2]

Marlowe made his film debut with an uncredited role in Attila (1955). Over the next few years, he began accruing supporting parts in several films, co-starring opposite Leslie Caron in Gaby (1956); in the Michael Curtiz-directed film noir, The Scarlet Hour (1956); with Russ Tamblyn in The Young Guns (1956); opposite the Robert Ryan-led ensemble cast of Men in War (1957); and a young Anne Bancroft in The Restless Breed (1957).

However, in 1958, he garnered a pair of lead roles in teen exploitation films dealing with juvenile delinquency: Young and Wild and The Cool and the Crazy—the latter of which not only co-starred another rising star in the subgenre, Richard Bakalyan, but proved to be Marlowe's breakthrough role. He followed this up with Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) and The Subterraneans (1960). The latter featured an all-star cast and was adapted from Jack Kerouac's titular novel, albeit severely diluted from its original beatnik content.

In 1961, he starred opposite Lola Albright in the May-December independent romantic drama, A Cold Wind in August. Despite only being eight years younger than her, Marlowe portrayed a character half of Albright's age who was seduced and fell in love, but complications arose when her burlesque stripper past interfered with his idealized perception.

Subsequently concentrating on television, his film roles dissipated after that. After Lonnie (1963), Marlowe wouldn't act in another feature film until the star-studded remake of Journey into Fear (1975), followed by Circle of Power (1981). In the 1990s, he had roles in one more theatrical film, Chasers (1994); while the last two, Lightning in a Bottle (1998) and Counter Measures (1999) both went direct-to-video on VHS.

Scott Marlowe appeared in over 100 credited television roles during his four decade career on American television. He was a frequent guest star on many popular drama, anthology, adventure, sci-fi and fantasy TV shows such as; Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66, The Time Tunnel, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Mission Impossible, Marcus Welby, M.D., Wonder Woman, The Rockford Files, Fame, Beauty and the Beast, thirtysomething, Matlock and Murder, She Wrote.

Early in his television career Marlowe appeared in several westerns. In 1958, he played “Jesse ‘Little Elk’ Carswell”, the son of the title character (played by James Whitmore) in the Wagon Train episode "The Gabe Carswell Story". In 1960, he starred opposite Clint Walker in the Cheyenne episode "Apache Blood" (as Mickey Free-Ward). Also in 1960, he guest-starred in the episode "The Show Off" of Law of the Plainsman (as Clancy James). In 1962, he guest-starred on Stoney Burke in the episode “Point of Honor” as a troubled, would-be bull rider. He guest-starred in the 1963 episode "Legends Don't Sleep" (as Britt) in one of his three appearances on Gunsmoke. Marlowe had roles in three episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel: "The Hanging of Roy Carter" (1958), "Charley Red Dog" (1959) and "Duke of Texas" (1961). In 1964 he starred playing an outlaw who robs Ben Cartwright but is betrayed by his wife in “The Roper” on Bonanza.

Marlowe appeared twice on The Outer Limits. As a guest-star in the 1963 episode "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” he played a worried brother searching for a missing scientist played by Michael Forest, with BarBara Luna featured as his girlfriend. In the 1964 episode "The Forms of Things Unknown” he costarred with Cedric Hardwicke, David McCallum, and Vera Miles playing a smarmy and blackmailing playboy. Much of the footage for this latter episode served as the basis of a reworked plot using additionally filmed scenes and a different ending for a pilot created by The Outer Limits producers for an unsold anthology series called The Unknown.^[3]

Between 1966 to 1973 he appeared ten times on The F.B.I. taking on nine different characters in the episodes: “The Price of Death“ (1966), “Overload” (1967), “The Tunnel” (1968), “The Young Warriors” (1969), “Blood Tie” (1969), “The Fatal Connection” (1971), “The Mastermind: Parts 1 & 2” (1971), “The Rap Taker” (1973) and “The Exchange” (1973).

Beginning in the 1970s Marlowe played in several made-for-television films starting with the Ted Post directed sci-fi horror Night Slaves (1970), followed by Travis Logan, D.A. (1971), The Critical List (1978), Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982), the Lee Grant directed drama No Place Like Home (1989), Seasons of the Heart (1994) starring Carol Burnett, and Following Her Heart (1994) starring Ann-Margret.

Later in his career he had a recurring role on the short-lived 1976 nighttime soap Executive Suite, and on the daytime soaps Another World (1979) and Days of Our Lives (1984). He took a turn at comedy in 1990 with a two episode arc in Perfect Strangers. In 1991, Marlowe starred as an alien Bajoran named “Keeve Falor” in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the episode “Ensign Ro”. In the 1990’s syndicated television series of Valley of the Dolls he played the character “Michael Burke” in the principal cast which ran for 65 episodes.

Marlowe died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on January 6, 2001, at 68 years of age.^[4]

• "Today's Stars Are Mean People". Fort Lauderdale News. April 5, 1964. p. 17E.
• Wedman, Les (August 1, 1974). "Eluding Stardom With Mr. Marlowe". The Vancouver Sun. p. 33.

• Scott Marlowe at IMDb