
Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, generally known as Marjoe Gortner (January 14, 1944 - October 2, 2026), was a one time revivalist-turned-actor who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four. He then gained outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary about the lucrative business of Pentecostal preaching. He then parlayed this fame into an acting career, mostly in television series, TV movies, and B-movies. He was best known for "Pray for the Wildcats," "Earthquake," "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw," "The Food of the Gods," "Starcrash," and "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" The name "Marjoe" is a portmanteau of the names "Mary" and "Joseph".
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The titles people know Marjoe from.
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as Akton (archive footage)
as The Cobra

as Lt. Youngman
as Dr. Dane
as Chalktrauma · 1 episode
as Joseph Cannon · 1 episode
as Larry Schecter
as Brother Jebediah / Johann Rector · 1 episode
as Oliver Farrell

as Jamie Lockhart · 1 episode
as Teddy
as Akton

as Digger
as Jesse
as Greco
as Morgan

as Ralph Hollio
1 episode
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