Place of birth: New York (USA)
Biography:
His father Sam Marx and his German mother, Minnie Schoenberg, ran a company of traveling comedians.
Groucho made his debut on the stage when he was 15 years old as a singer, later he began to interfere in acting with his brothers. His first works were performed in trios or musical quartets and later in magazines. In 1921 they work on a film “Humor risk” which was not successful at that time.
One of the “Cocoanuts” plays that they made between 1925 and 1928 gives them the opportunity to be featured on Broadway.
From there his career begins as Paramount offers them a contract to make several films, such as “The Four Coconuts”, “Horse Feathers” and “Goose Soup”, among others.
Soon after, the brothers left Paramount and thanks to Irving G. Thalberg The Marx Brothers began to work for Metro Goldwyn Mayer, where they got off to a very good start, filming films such as “A night at the opera” and “A day at the the races”.
In the 1950s the brothers separated and began an independent career, but only Groucho achieved success in a program for American television, “Bet your life” with which he achieved fame under the gaze of a generation that practically did not. he knew, except from having seen it in one of his movies.
After having married 3 times with, Ruth, Kay and Eden, and being the father of three children, Arthur, Miriam and Melinda, and having 18 films under his belt, 14 of them with his brothers, Groucho falls ill with pneumonia and died in 1977.
They rest their ashes in Eden Memorial Park.
Filmography:
Movies of the four Marx Brothers:
- Humor risk (1921, lost, only a few fragments remain)
- The four coconuts (1929)
- The conflict of the Marx (1930)
- Freshwater Gunmen (1931)
- Horse feathers (1932)
- Goose soup (1933)
Movies of the three Marx Brothers (without Zeppo)
- A night at the opera (1935)
- A day at the races (1937)
- The mess hotel (1938)
- An afternoon at the circus (1939)
- The Marx Brothers in the West (1940)
- Crazy Shop (1941)
- A night in Casablanca (1946)
- Canned Love (1949)
- The History of Humanity (1957) (appears separately, not considered a Marx Brothers film)
Solo Movies:
- Copacabana (1947)
- Double Dynamite (1951)
- A woman in every port (1952)
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
- The Mikado (TV) (1960)
- Skidoo (1968)