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Mark Herron

American actor

Not to be confused with American football player Mack Herron.

Mark Herron

Born

Truman Herron


(1928-07-08)July 8, 1928

Baxter, Tennessee, U.S.

DiedJanuary 13, 1996(1996-01-13) (aged 67)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

OccupationActor
Years active1951–1996
Spouse

Judy Garland

(m. 1965; div. 1969)​
PartnerHenry Brandon (1969–1990; his death)

Truman "Mark" Herron (July 8, 1928 – January 13, 1996) was an American actor and the fourth husband of singer and actress Judy Garland. They were married on November 14, 1965, in Las Vegas, Nevada, but they separated after five months of marriage.[1] Seventeen months later, Garland was granted a divorce after testifying that Herron had beaten her. He said he had "only hit her in self-defense."

Herron appeared in films such as Federico Fellini's (1963), Girl in Gold Boots (1968) and Eye of the Cat (1969).

He also appeared on the TV western series Gunsmoke in 1960 as an Army Major in

Mick Herron

British novelist

Mick Herron (born 11 July 1963)[1] is a British mystery and thriller novelist. He is the author of the Slough House series, early novels of which have been adapted into the Slow Horses television series. He won the Crime Writers' Association 2013 Gold Dagger for Dead Lions and the Diamond Dagger in 2025 for lifetime achievement.

Early life

Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in English.[2][3][4] He is one of six children; his father was an optician and his mother a nursery-school teacher.[5]

Career

In 2003, Herron published his first novel, Down Cemetery Road. It was the first volume in a four-book series about Zoë Boehm, an Oxford private detective.[6]

In 2010, he began the Slough House spy series with the first volume Slow Horses. The series concerns MI5 agents who have been exiled from the agency mainstream for various failures. The second volume, Dead Lions, published

Mark Herron

Mark Herron (8 July 1928 – 13 January 1996) was an American actor best known as the fourth husband of singer and actress Judy Garland. They were married on 14 November 1965 in Las Vegas, but they separated after 5 months of marriage apparently due to his homosexuality. Seventeen months later, Garland was granted a divorce after testifying that Herron had beaten her. He said he had "only hit her in self defense." He appeared in films such as Federico Fellini's and Eye of the Cat.

Fans of the cable TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 may recall his performance in the film Girl in Gold Boots, in which he portrayed the greasy nightclub owner Leo McCabe.

Gerald Clarke, in his biography of Garland, Get Happy (2000) and in an interview about the book, reported that Herron had an affair with Tallulah Bankhead prior to meeting Garland.

Garland put Herron to work as producer of her two London Palladium concerts with her daughter Liza Minnelli in 1964 as well as some personal appearances in Canada in 1965.

Aside from providing biographer Gerold Frank informat

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