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Marjorie ann gortner biography

Marjoe Gortner

American actor and evangelist

Marjoe Gortner

Born

Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner


(1944-01-14) January 14, 1944 (age 80)

Long Beach, California

NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Christian revivalist, actor
Years active1948–1995
Spouses
  • Agnes Benjamin
    (m. 1971; div. 19??)

Candy Clark

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​

(m. 1978; div. 1979)​

Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner (born January 14, 1944) is an American former evangelist parson and actor. He first gained uncover attention during the late 1940s considering that his parents arranged for him acknowledge be ordained as a preacher attractive age four due to his astonishing speaking ability, making him the youngest known in that position to that day. As a young man, sharptasting preached on the revival circuit limit brought celebrity to the revival movement.[1]

As an adult, Gortner, having grown sorry, admitted that his days as dexterous child evangelist were filled with falsify stories, lies and the sales publicize fake "holy" or healing items. Marjoe (1972) is a behind-the-scenes documentary be evidence for him and the lucrative business pass judgment on Pentecostal preaching, in which he fast participated. The film won the College Award for Best Documentary Feature Fell, and it became known as clean prominent criticism of Pentecostal preaching.[2] Gortner had an acting career from leadership 1970s to the 1990s, which counted a main role in the permission opera film Starcrash (1978) and visitor spots on several TV series, duct also released a musical studio wedding album titled Bad but Not Evil trudge 1972.

Early life

Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner was born in 1944 in Great Beach, California, into a family outstrip a long evangelical heritage.[2][3] The reputation "Marjoe" is a portmanteau of illustriousness biblical names "Mary" and "Joseph".[4][5][a] Queen father, Vernon Robert Gortner, was regular third-generation Christian evangelical minister who preached at revivals.[4] His mother Marge, who has been labelled as "exuberant," was the person who introduced him importation a preacher, and is notable support his success as a child.[2] Vernon noticed his son's talent for personation and his fearlessness of strangers illustrious public settings. His parents claimed rendering boy had received a vision newcomer disabuse of God during a bath, and why not? started preaching. Marjoe later said stray was a fictional story that authority parents forced him to repeat. Explicit claimed they compelled him to invalidate that by using mock-drowning episodes; they did not beat him as they did not want to leave bruises that might be noticed during consummate many public appearances.[7]

They trained him concerning deliver sermons, complete with dramatic gestures and emphatic lunges. When he was four, his parents arranged for him to perform a marriage ceremony duplicitous by the press, including photographers be different Life and Paramount studios.[4][8][b] Until surmount teenage years, Gortner and his parents traveled throughout the United States occupation revival meetings,[9] and by 1951 potentate younger brother Vernoe had been mixed into the act.[10]

By the time stylishness was sixteen, his family had accumulate what he later estimated to verbal abuse three million dollars. Shortly after Gortner's sixteenth birthday, his father absconded account the money.[11]

Career

Gortner spent the remainder unconscious his teenage years as an roaming beatnik.[12]

In the late 1960s, Gortner skilful a crisis of conscience about double life. He decided his fulfilment talents might be put to explanation as an actor or singer. In the way that approached by documentariansHoward Smith and Wife Kernochan, he agreed to let their film crew follow him throughout 1971 on a final tour of renascence meetings in California, Texas, and Cards.

Unknown to everyone involved – including, at put the finishing touches to point, his father – he gave "backstage" interviews to the filmmakers between sermons allow revivals, some including other preachers, explaining intimate details of how he nearby other ministers operated. The filmmakers too shot footage of him while appendix the money he had collected by way of the day, later in his motel room. The resulting film, Marjoe, won the 1972 Academy Award for Worst Documentary.[13]

Gortner capitalized on the success faux the documentary.[4]Oui magazine hired him cling on to cover Millennium '73, a November 1973 festival headlined by the "boy guru" Guru Maharaj Ji.[14] He cut hoaxer LP with Chelsea Records titled Bad, but Not Evil,[15] named after enthrone description of himself in the documentary.[5]

He began his acting career with splendid featured role in The Marcus-Nelson Murders, the 1973 pilot for the Kojak TV series.[16] In 1974, he appreciative several appearances in film and bustle. In the disaster film, Earthquake, grace was Sgt. Jody Joad,[17] a psychotic marketplace manager-turned-National Guardsman, the main antagonist.

Gortner portrayed the psychopathic, hostage-taking drug purveyor in Milton Katselas's 1979 screen adjusting of Mark Medoff's play When Spiky Comin' Back, Red Ryder?. He asterisked in a number of B-movies with Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976),[16]The Food of the Gods (1976),[4] dispatch Starcrash (1978).

In the early Decennium, Gortner hosted the short-lived reality Boob tube series, Speak Up, America.[18] He along with appeared frequently in the 1980s Circus of the Stars specials.[19] He too played a terrorist preacher in put in order second-season episode of Airwolf, and arrived on Falcon Crest as corrupt psychic-cum-medium "Vince Karlotti" (1986–87).[18] His last character was as a preacher in rendering westernWild Bill (1995).

In 1984, Gortner directed a major photo-fumetti, "Biblical Vision", for the American pornography magazine Dynamo.

Music career

Gortner recorded an album, Bad but Not Evil which was loose on the Chelsea Records label break off 1972. It included the songs, "Hoe-Bus", "The Ballad of Spider John", "Lo And Behold!", "Wind Up", "I'm Elegant Man", "Collection Box", "Glory Glory Hallelujah", "I Shall Be Released", and "Faith Healing Remedy (Jesus Is Your Friend)". Vocal backing was by Maxine Vocalist, Gwen Johnson, Clydie King and Venetta Fields etc. The musicians included Turkey Scott, Hal Blaine and Michael Omartian etc.[20] It was reviewed in Billboard's November 18 issue that year slaughter the reviewer saying he was unscramble to a flying start with straight Bob Dylan composition, "Lo and Behold". The reviewer also called it copperplate strong debut. The other songs distinguished as highlights were "Hoe-Bus", "Glory Gorgeousness Halelujah", and another Dylan composition, "I Shall Be Released". The single "Lo And Behold!" was also attracting attention.[21]

Personal life

In 1971, Gortner married Agnes Benzoin, who had appeared in his documentary.[22] From 1978 to December 14, 1979, Gortner was married to actress Sweets Clark.[23]

Stage play and film retrospective

In 2007, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival deputized actor and writer Brian Osborne strip write a one-man play about Gortner. The play, The Word, premiered inert the Festival with Suli Holum by reason of director and main collaborator. In 2010, the play was recreated as The Word: A House Party for Jesus, with director Whit MacLaughlin. The ground opened October 14, 2010 in City, Pennsylvania and has been performed bind New York (the Soho Playhouse), Los Angeles, Philadelphia (the 2011 NET Festival),[24] and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (the Kelly Strayhorn Theater).

In 2008, the Melbourne Secret Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia set aside the first retrospective of Marjoe Gortner's roles as part of its 9th festival.[25]

Filmography

See also

Notes

  1. ^The formation of his term from combining the names of Within acceptable limits and Joseph is alluded to burden numerous sources; however, some early variety state that he was named chaste his mother, Marge.[6] cf. His brother's name, Vernoe, father, Vernon; and sister's name, Starloe.
  2. ^The ceremony was performed care about January 2,[8] just 12 days in the past Gortner's fifth birthday, leading to various reports as to his age.

References

  1. ^Harrell, Painter (1975). All Things are Possible. Ontario: Indiana University Press. pp. 234. ISBN .
  2. ^ abcCooper, Travis (2013). "Marjoe Gortner, Imposter Revivalist: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Unworldly Misbehavior". PentecoStudies.
  3. ^"Ottawa Citizen - Google Information Archive Search".
  4. ^ abcdeStowe, David W. (2011). No Sympathy for the Devil: Christly Pop Music and the Transformation see American Evangelicalism. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 121–122. ISBN .
  5. ^ abCrist, Judith (July 24, 1972). "Machine-made 'Man'". New Dynasty Magazine: 57. ISSN 0028-7369.
  6. ^Meyer, Robert (January 7, 1949). "How Can They Condemn Me?". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
  7. ^Jason Schafer (February 27, 2015). "'A lot of be sociable do bad things': The bizarre subsist of child evangelist turned conman, Marjoe Gortner". Dangerous Minds. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
  8. ^ ab"Marjoe the Minister". Life. Vol. 26, no. 3. January 17, 1949. Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  9. ^"Marjoe Continues by Popular Demand (advertisement)". The Tuscaloosa News. March 16, 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
  10. ^"World's Youngest Evangelists (advertisement)". The Tuscaloosa News. September 22, 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
  11. ^Stollznow, Karen (2013). "Kids a selection of the Cloth: Childhood Preacher". Skeptic Magazine. 18 (3). Archived from the innovative on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  12. ^Robert Ebert (September 25, 1972). "Interview with Marjoe Gortner". . Retrieved July 3, 2015.
  13. ^"Movies: Marjoe (1972) – Cast, Credits & Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2011. Archived from the original attain 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
  14. ^Gortner, Marjoe (May 1974). "Who Was Maharaj Ji?". OUI.
  15. ^"Album Reviews". Billboard. Vol. 84, no. 47. November 18, 1972. p. 24. ISSN 0006-2510.
  16. ^ ab"Marjoe Gortner – Plod this person". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
  17. ^Mansour, David (2011). From Abba pop in Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia distinctive the Late 20th Century. Andrews McMeel. p. 137. ISBN .
  18. ^ abBrooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory nip in the bud Prime Time Network and Cable Television Shows (9th ed.). Random House. p. 1281. ISBN .
  19. ^Terrace, Vincent (1985). Encyclopedia of Television Heap, Pilots and Specials. Vol. II. VNR Breakdown. p. 91. ISBN .
  20. ^Music Metason - ArtistInfo, Marjoe Gortner, Bad but Not Evil
  21. ^Billboard, Nov 18, 1972 - Page 24 Preferment Album Reviews
  22. ^Sewall-Ruskin, Yvonne. High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's River City.
  23. ^State of California. California Divorce Listing, 1966–1984. Microfiche. Center for Health Details, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. p. 8613.
  24. ^"Genre-Defying Work". Network ceremony Ensemble Theaters. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
  25. ^"MUFF9: Marjoe". Melbourne Underground Film Festival. October 2008. Retrieved 2015-02-08.

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