Allen Marsh

Allen Marsh

Personal Details

Biography

Allen Marsh was born at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina to Mary Jo Allen and Joe Marsh. By the time he was 17, he had attended a total of eight different schools across six states, including Maryland, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. As a high school student, Allen's interests lay in drama, and he appeared in productions of West Side Story in 1961 and The King and I in 1956, often taking on the youngest male role due to his age. He served as the drama club president during his senior year, although the administration during that time was criticized for doing "absolutely nothing" and not even producing a play.

After high school, Allen attended Concordia College in St. Paul, Minnesota for a year before enlisting in the Air Force. He underwent training at Lackland Air Force Base and Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas, and was subsequently assigned to the 548th Reconnaissance Technical Group at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, the Joint Intelligence Center Pacific at Pearl Harbor, and finally Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Following his honorable discharge, Allen worked in a variety of fields, including sales, construction, graphic design, radio announcing, church secretarial work, TV closed captioning editing, and even flight attending.

During his time as a hotel concierge in Springfield, Missouri, Allen decided to audition for a play on a whim and landed a role in a stage production of You Can't Take It with You in 1938, largely due to his ability to play the xylophone. He continued to appear in plays, independent films, and commercials in Springfield, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa before relocating to Los Angeles in the summer of 2010.

Allen's most recent appearances include a holographic role as the spokesman for Brighter Days Inc. in Ariana Grande's 2025 film Brighter Days Ahead, as well as roles in Ryan Murphy's American Sports Story in 2024 and The Offer in 2022, where he played screenwriter Alvin Sargent opposite Josh Zuckerman and Colin Hanks. Additionally, he can often be seen playing piano at the Genoa City Athletic Club's Neil Winters Memorial Jazz Lounge on The Young and the Restless.

Career

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2025
Brighter Days Ahead
Brighter Days Ahead as Hologram Doctor
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2024
Baggage
Baggage as Waiter
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2023
A Cotton Moon
A Cotton Moon as Clifton Ganus
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2006
Nine Grounds
Nine Grounds as Alphonse