Profile
Marjoe Gortner
Evangelist + Preacher + Actor
Male
Born
Jan 14, 1944
Age
69
Hometown
Long Beach, Calif...
Nationality
United States
Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, generally known as Marjoe Gortner, is a former revivalist who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four. He then gained outright notoriety in the 1970s when… Read More
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Dan Persons: Mighty Movie's Temple Of Bad: StarcrashThe Huffington Post - Nov 30, 2012
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Marjoe Gortner Cynické Evanjelium Zázračného Dieťaťa Sme.SkGoogle News - Aug 31, 2011
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Four Year Old Pint Sized Preacher Kanon Tipton Preaches 'Red Hot Revival' Videos Examiner.ComGoogle News - Aug 17, 2011
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Marjoe Gortner.
CHILDHOOD
1944
Birth
Born on January 14, 1944.
TWENTIES
1971
27 Years Old
When approached by documentarians Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, he agreed to let their film crew follow him on a final tour in 1971 around revival meetings in California, Texas and Michigan.
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He began his acting career with a featured role in The Marcus-Nelson Murders, the 1973 pilot for the Kojak TV series.
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THIRTIES
1978
34 Years Old
From 1978 to December 14, 1979, Gortner was married to Candy Clark.
1979
35 Years Old
Gortner's most memorable film performance is probably as the psychopathic hostage-taking drug-dealer in Milton Katselas's 1979 screen adaptation of Mark Medoff's play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
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FIFTIES
1995
51 Years Old
Gortner hosted an early-1980s reality TV series called Speak Up, America, ironically playing a terrorist preacher in a 2nd Season episode of Airwolf, and appeared on Falcon Crest as corrupt psychic-cum-medium "Vince Karlotti" (1986–87) before ending his movie career in 1995 with an appearance as a preacher in the western Wild Bill.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2007
63 Years Old
In 2007, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival commissioned actor and writer Brian Osborne to write a one-man play about Gortner.
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2008
64 Years Old
In 2008, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia held the first retrospective of the cinematic works of Marjoe Gortner as part of their 9th festival.
2009
65 Years Old
Until 2009, Gortner produced Celebrity Sports Invitational charity golf tournaments and ski events to raise money for charities such as the Dream Foundation and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Waterkeeper Alliance.
2010
66 Years Old
He retired from this role in January 2010.
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