Gregg Marx (born April 3, 1955) is an American actor known mainly for his work on daytime soap operas.
He first played the role of
David Banning on ''
Days of Our Lives'' from 1981 to 1983. He then moved to ''
As the World Turns
''As the World Turns'' (often abbreviated as ''ATWT'') is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created ''As the World Turns'' as a sister show to her other s ...
'' where he portrayed
Tom Hughes,
from December 7, 1984 to 1987. Marx won the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the
14th Daytime Emmy Awards in 1987.
As a
cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining o ...
performer, he as performed at Los Angeles venues such as
Hollywood Cinegrill, Masquers Cabaret, The Gardenia, and Feinstein's At The Cinegrill, as well as in New York at Danny's Skylight Room, Maggiano's at The Grove and II Moro Supper Club.
He voiced a fictional commercial in an episode of ''
Two and a Half Men
''Two and a Half Men'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015. Originally starring Charlie Sheen in the lead role alongside Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones, t ...
'' in 2007.
Gregg Marx is a grandson of
Gummo Marx
Milton "Gummo" Marx (October 23, 1892 – April 21, 1977) was an American vaudevillian performer, actor, comedian, and theatrical agent. He was the second youngest of the five Marx Brothers. Born in Manhattan, he worked with his brothers on t ...
of the
Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949. Five of the Marx Brothers' thirteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) ...
.
References
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1955 births
Living people
Jewish American male actors
American male soap opera actors
Daytime Emmy Award winners
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series winners
American people of German-Jewish descent
21st-century American Jews
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