Robert Neal Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in New York City and Englewood, New Jersey. His mother is Broadway and television actress turned photographer Bette Marshall (nee Lieb) and his father is Entertainment Law attorney Paul G. Marshall. Robert's Grandfather, Jack H. Lieb, was a Newsreel Cameraman famous for filming Charles Lindbergh's take off for Paris in 1927 and for his rare color films of the D-Day invasion onto the beaches of Normandy and the Liberation of Paris during World War II which are in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Marshall is an actor, writer, producer, and director who started off working in the West End of London as assistant to late producer and theatrical agent Richard Armitage on several hit shows, including Me and My Girl with Robert Lindsay and Emma Thompson, High Society with Natasha Richardson, The Entertainer with Peter Bowles, and Rowan Atkinson for his one man show A New Review. While in London, Robert produced and directed the successful West End debut of Is There Life After High School? at the Donmar Warehouse. As a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors' Lab, Robert met and collaborated with composer Tim Battle from Boys Choir of Harlem. Together they adapted Diane Stanley's Award winning book Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter into a children's musical that has been presented to critical acclaim in the prestigious Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. as part of their Saturday Morning Series, and for Theatre IV, the State Children's Theatre of Virginia. As Casting Associate with Pat Moran, CSA, Robert was a member of the team to win an Emmy® award for casting HBO's Game Change with Julianne Moore and Ed Harris, Directed by Jay Roach, and an Emmy® nomination for casting season 1 of VEEP starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Prior film work includes Regina Ziegler Productions in Berlin, Germany, and multiple Industrials for Jack Lieb Productions. Following success with the Comedy/Horror The Night Watchmen, Marshall is collaborating as co-producer with many of the same team, including Matt Servitto, Ken Arnold and Dan De Luca to form On Deck Films, LLC with several feature films in development. Robert has served as Tour Manager for Rain Pryor on her one woman show Fried Chicken and Latkes and produced a workshop production of After All, a new one woman show starring Tony Award nominated actress Anita Gillette. A member of Dramatists Guild, Sag-Aftra, and Actors Equity, Robert has appeared in leading roles on several major stage, television and film projects, which include as Captain Richard Phillips in Somali Pirate Takedown: The Real Story for Discovery Channel. Other leads include FDNY Captain Jay Jonas in the Emmy Award-nominated Countdown to Ground Zero for the History Channel and a recurring role as John Zaffis in A Haunting for the Discovery Channel. Stage work includes both the Off-Broadway and Baltimore Hippodrome productions of Ken Davenport's hit interactive comedy The Awesome 80s Prom as the overbearing Principal Snelgrove. Robert is a Guest Speaker on board the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2 as part of the Cunard Insights Enrichment Programme. His DVD documentary 'Three Queens: An International Rendezvous' was released in November 2008 to coincide with the final journey of the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 and is available for sale on Amazon.com and via 3queensDVD.com. Robert's documentary Mr. Ocean Liner about the life and times of maritime historian and author William H. Miller, had its grand premiere aboard Queen Mary 2 in 2010. In 2016 Marshall directed and co-produced (with Yvonne Sneeden) his next documentary Back From The Light which explores the aftereffects of surviving a Near Death Experience.