The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

MARION, GEORGE

(1860-1945)
Born in San Francisco, the actor got his start with Lew Dockstader'sMinstrels. By the mid-1890s, he was acting inlegitimatetheatre in New York. From the 1900s to the 1940s, he directed and produced plays on Broadway, but often returned to acting, notably to create the role of Chris Christopherson in Eugene O'Neill'sAnna Christiein 1921.