Noel Marshall American film director and producer died of brain cancer he was , 79,

Noel Marshall was born on April 18, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois.^[1] He was an agent in Hollywood, California in the 1960s.^[2] He later became the executive producer of the 1973 horror film The Exorcist.^[3] He wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in the film Roar (1981), which also featured his then-wife Tippi Hedren, stepdaughter Melanie Griffith, and his sons from a previous m

arriage to Jaye Joseph.^[4] Roar was an accident-ridden film that featured tigers and lions.^[5][6] The film took eleven years and $17 million to make, and brought in only $2 million worldwide.^[7]

Marshall, who was married to Hedren from 1964 to 1982, was also an executive producer on two of her films, Mr. Kingstreet's War and The Harrad Experiment (both 1973).^[4] One of his later films where he was credited as executive producer was A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), starring River Phoenix.^[8]

Marshall died of brain cancer on June 27, 2010.^[9]

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