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Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner (born January 14, 1944) is an American former evangelist preacher and actor. He first gained public attention during the late 1940s when his parents arranged for him to be ordained as a preacher at age four due to his extraordinary speaking ability, making him the youngest known in that position to this day.
Marjoe Gortner was a child preacher, who was popular in the American South starting in 1949. His parents earned large sums of money off of his preaching; Gortner speculated their take to be in the millions. The novelty of Gortner's youthfulness wore off at age 14, causing his father to leave. At 16, he decided to stop preaching and left his ...
The Gun and the Pulpit is a 1974 American Western television film starring Marjoe Gortner and Slim Pickens, directed by Daniel Petrie. It was based on Jack Ehrlich's 1972 novel The Fastest Gun in the Pulpit. Filmed at Old Tucson, it was a television pilot for a series [1] to star Gortner, a former evangelist.
Starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, and Ida Lupino, the film was loosely based on a portion of the 1904 H. G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. The film reduced Wells' tale to a "nature revenge" plot, common in science fiction films of the time.
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw is a 1976 crime drama film directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter.The film marks the big screen debut of Lynda Carter and was released four months after her first appearance as the star of the television series Wonder Woman.
Warren Summerfield (William Shatner) is a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain (Robert Reed) is inattentive to his wife (Angie Dickinson); and brash art designer Terry Maxon (Marjoe Gortner) feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant.
The heyday of child preachers was in the 1920s and 1930s, [1] but a number of videos of modern-day child preachers can be seen on YouTube. [2] One of the most prominent child preachers was Marjoe Gortner, who was the subject of the 1972 documentary Marjoe.
Starcrash (Italian: Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione, lit. 'Starfights Beyond the Third Dimension') is a 1978 space opera film directed and co-written by Luigi Cozzi, and starring Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, David Hasselhoff, Joe Spinell and Christopher Plummer.