Administration (PWA) Drama Division. She would later serve in a similar capacity as a social worker in New York City and with community puppet theaters in California. According to one of his obituaries, puppetry was a childhood interest of her father's who would entertain his neighbors with Punch and Judy shows charging two cents admission or a nickel for reserved seating. Marshall P. Wilder Jr. (1913–1964) became a pioneer in the development of television when in 1931 he participated in the first successful transmission of a signal to a ship stationed some 50 miles offshore. And later during World War II was one of the technicians who helped develop what today are called smart bombs by engineering a television camera small enough to fit into the nosecone of a bomb or unmanned aircraft that could be directed by remote control. Filmography Marshall P. Wilder (1897) Actor's Fund Field Day (1910) Marshall P. Wilder (1912)(as himself) Chumps (1912) The Five Senses (1912) The Pipe (1912) The Greatest Thing in the World(1912) Professor Optimo (1912) Mockery (1912) The Godmother (1912) The Curio Hunters (1912) The Widow's Might (1913) References External links portrait gallery of Marshall P. Wilder(NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection) Marshall P. Wilder speaking in 1908 recording 1859 births 1915 deaths 19th-century American male actors American male stage actors American male silent film actors American non-fiction writers Actors with dwarfism American expatriate male actors in the United Kingdom Entertainers with dwarfism Vaudeville performers Male actors from New York (state) Writers from New York (state) 20th-century American male actors People from Geneva, New York