Allen Marsh was born at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. He attended Concordia College in St. Paul, Minnesota and served in the US Air Force, stationed at the 548th Reconnaissance Technical Group at Hickam AFB, Hawaii and later at the Joint Intelligence Center Pacific at Pearl Harbor. He has appeared onscreen as a young C.S. Lewis, a middle-aged Humphrey Bogart, and The President of The United States.