Marvin Paige (26 January 1927 – 13 November 2013; age 86) was a Hollywood casting director whose credits included Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Paige's first work as a casting director was the classic 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's. Among the actors he helped cast for this film was Star Trek: The Original Series guest star Stanley Adams. Paige later did casting work for such films as The Devil's Brigade (1968, starring Andrew Prine), The Honkers (1972, written and directed by Steve Ihnat), Take the Money and Run (1969) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972, featuring Jay Robinson and Ian Abercrombie), the 1976 independent drama Grand Jury (starring Bruce Davison), and Day of the Animals (1977, starring Michael Ansara).
In addition to his film credits, Paige cast a number of television series, including Combat!, Planet of the Apes, and Charlie's Angels. He spent at least ten years as casting director on the soap opera General Hospital, for which he received two Artios Award nominations from the Casting Society of America. He also owned a research consulting firm, Marvin Paige's Motion Picture and Television Research Archive, which provided material for a number of documentaries, including numerous episodes of A&E's Biography and AMC's Backstory.
Paige died on 13 November 2013 in Los Angeles, California, from injuries sustained in a car accident the previous month. [1]
External links[]
- Marvin Paige at the Internet Movie Database
- Marvin Paige interview with POTA magazine at KassidyRae.com (1975)
- Marvin Paige interview at VOANews.com (2006)