- Hired by Steven Spielberg on joining the Amblin Productions company in 1980.
- He met Cybill Shepherd on the set of The Last Picture Show (1971) and they worked on several films and albums together for the next ten years. They also had a on-and-off love affair, and Cybill had written that they had an "enduring passion.".
- Graduated from UCLA.
- Producer or executive producer for six Best Picture Oscar nominees: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Color Purple (1985), The Sixth Sense (1999), Seabiscuit (2003), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and War Horse (2011).
- Has two daughters with his wife Kathleen Kennedy - Lili Marshall and Meghan Marshall.
- Brother-in-law of Connie Kennedy.
- Brother of Phil Marshall.
- Son of composer Jack Marshall.
- Graduated, with Greg MacGillivray, from Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, California, in 1964. Anthony Zerbe and Paul Le Mat also attended the same school.
- Cousin of Christopher Parkening.
- In the novelization for Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), it uses the saying "sixth sense"; Marshall produced this and The Sixth Sense (1999). Steven Spielberg later directed Haley Joel Osment in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), as well as producing Holmes.
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