Marshall Colt (born October 26, 1948) is an American management consultant and combat-decorated, former captain in the United States Navy in San Diego,[1] who was an actor in film and television[2] from 1976 to 1995.
He co-starred in the films North Dallas Forty (1979) and Jagged Edge (1985) as well as in the 1981–82 James Arness NBC police procedural McClain's Law.
In 1978, Colt appeared as Sam Pray in "Great Expectations," the fourth episode of the short-lived CBS legal drama The Paper Chase, starring John Houseman.
Colt received second billing in the two-hour made-for-TV film McClain's Law, broadcast in November 1981 as a pilot for the same-named police series in which Colt played young detective Harry Gates of the San Pedro, California, Police Department, whose use of modern criminology methods placed him in contrast to his older partner, Jim McClain, played by James Arness, who employed the more traditional approach.
In 1988, Colt was cast as Jack Wheeler, the chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, in the television film To Heal a Nation,[7] based on the establishment of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Other roles in television films were as Steven Beck in Beverly Hills Madam, Charles McLean in Maggie, Kelly Hancock in Mercy or Murder?, Andrew Winkler in Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story, and Douglas Erickson in Deceptions.