Background
Marshall was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Barbara Wells, a nurse, and director/producer Garry Marshall. He is also the nephew of filmmaker Penny Marshall. Scott had an interest in film since his childhood as his father recalled of his son"s early efforts in film "I"d make him a little wooden airplane and he would take it immediately and burn it, and start to film it, flaming, crashing!” Also, “Later, we got a pool and he would get his friends to drink tomato juice and then he"d shoot at them and they would dive in the pool and the tomato juice would come out.