Biography: life and films
Groucho Marx was an American actor and screenwriter whose birth name was Julius Henry Marx. He was born in New York City, New York, USA on 2nd October 1890 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 19th August 1977, aged 86.His best films as an actor include Victor Heerman's comedy Animal Crackers (1930), Norman Z. McLeod's Horse Feathers (1932), Leo McCarey's Duck Soup (1933), Sam Wood's A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937), and whose best work as a screenwriter include Mervyn LeRoy's The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) and Irving Brecher's The Life of Riley (1949).
Groucho Marx appeared in 24 films and scripted 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Sam Wood (2 films), Norman Z. McLeod (2) and Edward Buzzell (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (23 films), comedy-romance (5) and Documentary (2).
Our average rating for Groucho Marx over all films is: 3.4
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer
Duck Soup (1933) [a]
A Night at the Opera (1935) [a]
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) [w]
At the Circus (1939) [a]
Go West (1940) [a]
A Night in Casablanca (1946) [a]
Copacabana (1947) [a]
The Life of Riley (1949) [w]
Mr. Music (1950) [a]
A Girl in Every Port (1952) [a]
The Story of Mankind (1957) [a]
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) [a]
Skidoo (1968) [a]
Document of the Dead (1985) [a]
The best French Films of the 1910s
The best films of Ingmar Bergman
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
