Marshall Napier

Marshall James Napier is a New Zealand-born actor, dramatist and playwright. He is the father of actress Jessica Napier and the uncle of actor James Napier.
Before becoming an actor, Napier worked variously as an art student, factory worker and truck driver. In 1988, he moved with his wife and two children, Reuben and Jessica, to Australia, to pursue a career in acting, and has worked in theatre, film, and television productions. In his 40's, he began writing plays.

A partial list of his theatre credits follows: Sydney Theatre Company

• The present
• In the next room / The vibrator play
• The herbal bed
• Simpatico

Belvoir

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013)
• The power of yes
• A View from the Bridge
• Diving for pearls

MTC

• Frost/Nixon
• The birthday party

TRS

• Freak winds
• Angel city
• The schelling point

Ensemble Theatre

• Alarms and excursions

Q Theatre

• Waiting for Godot

Darlinghurst Theatre

• All my sons

Griffin Theatre

• Speaking in tongues
• All souls

Other

• Marat/Sade
• The Duchess of Malfi

He has also written a play, now in production in New York's upper west side, entitled Freak Winds, which he also stars in and directs.

Movies

• The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey - Searle
• Came a Hot Friday - Sel Bishop
• Pallet on the Floor - Joe Voot
• The Big Steal (1990 film) - Desmond Clark
• Babe - Chairman of Judges
• Bad Eggs - Doug Gillespie
• Goodbye Pork Pie - Traffic officer

Television series

the Neville Purvis Show

• Police Rescue - Sgt. Fred 'Frog' Catteau (his daughter, Jessica Napier, played his character's daughter)
• Seven Deadly Sins - Brodie
• Water Rats - Joe Da Silva
• McLeod's Daughters as Harry Ryan/Carl Weatherdon 2001-2006
• Farscape - specifically the episode entitled "...Different Destinations" - General Grynes
• The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End (television) - Draco
• City Homicide as Wilton Sparkes 2007

• City Homicide: Meet the Cast - Marshall Napier

In 2002, he and his daughter, Jessica Napier, won $64000 in the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for the "South Australian Animal Rights Group".