Background
Marshall, Steve was born on July 19, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Willard Denver Marshall and Lorraine Lee (Waltman) Kelchner.
Marshall, Steve was born on July 19, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Willard Denver Marshall and Lorraine Lee (Waltman) Kelchner.
Student, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California, 1961-1964.
He began his entertainment career in radio, rising to the level of program director of the Columbia Broadcasting System-owned KNX-FM in Los Angeles in the early "70s. After a number of years in radio, Marshall wrote a script on spec for the Columbia Broadcasting System television series WKRP in Cincinnati. The producers of the show bought the script and put Marshall on staff
During his three years with the series, he wrote many of its episodes and eventually teamed up with another WKRP writer, Dan Guntzelman.
After the cancellation of the series, Marshall and Guntzelman executive produced the All in the Family spin-off, Gloria, with Sally Struthers and Burgess Meredith. The series aired on Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1982-1983 season and was soon canceled.
Under contract as writer/producers to Warner Brothers Television, the two were asked to take over the running of the studio"s new series, Growing Pains.
They kept the series in the Nielsen top 20 for most of its seven-year run, also creating a spin-off series for American Broadcasting Company, Just the Ten of United States
That series was canceled after two seasons, at which point Marshall and Guntzelman left Growing Pains in 1992 and went their separate ways. A couple years later the two re-united to produce a series from a pilot they had written for National Broadcasting Company in 1984, a look at television news titled Live Shot, which was given new life on the newly formed Universitas Pembangunan Nasional network in 1995. That series was canceled after 13 episodes.
During their partnership, Marshall and Guntzelman wrote a number of feature film scripts, including Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, a 20th Century Fox release.
Member of advisory board Center For Control of Handgun Violence, Los Angeles, 1991.
Married Doris Fuchs, August 30, 1969 (divorced 1985). 1 child, Kareen Rae; married Vicki Kathryn Marshal, April 20, 1986.