Marshall Stedman (August 16, 1874 – December 16, 1943) was an American stage and silent screen actor/director, playwright, author and drama teacher.

[4] Stedman began his theater career at around the age of eighteen with William Morris’ stock company playing Bob Appleton in Ludwig Fulda’s three-act drama The Lost Paradise, and Ned Annesley in Sowing the Wind, a four-act play by Sydney Grundy.

He later joined E. H. Sothern for two seasons and went on to star in a number of one-act plays and tour in Shakespearean repertoire productions.

News reports of the day indicated his family was involved in a mining venture near America City called the Charlemagne Lode.

[7][8][9] In 1906, Stedman was named head of the drama school at the Chicago Musical College, a position he would hold for some four years.