Leslie H. Martinson

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Leslie Herbert Martinson (* 16th January 1915 in Boston , United States ; † 3. September 2016 in Los Angeles , United States) was an American director in film and television.

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Martinson had Latvian-German-Jewish roots and received artistic training at the music conservatory in his hometown of Boston. His first professional activity took him to the advertising department of the local newspaper The Boston Evening Transcript before he left for Hollywood in 1936. There he worked for the next decade and a half as a so-called script clerk in the screenwriting department of MGM . From 1946 to 1953 Martinson served unnamed in the script supervision of some well-known films such as Die Wildnis ruft (1946), Der Pirat (1947), Osterspaziergang (1948), Spiel zu Dreitt (1948), A Kiss at Midnight (1949) and John Huston's film noir classic Asphalt Jungle (1950). After three assistant directors from 1949 to 1951, he was allowed to direct for the first time in 1952.

In the following 37 years, Leslie H. Martinson directed hundreds of episodes to television series, some of which were popular in Germany and often played in the police or western context, including Colt. 45, Cheyenne , Maverick , Bronco , Lawman , 77 Sunset Strip , Wettlauf mit dem Death, Batman , Mister Roberts, Bruce Lee - The Secret of the Green Hornet , The Boss , Cobra, Take Over Where Love Falls, Mannix , The Six Million Dollar Man , Barnaby Jones , Wonder Woman , Dallas , Fantasy Island and Vicki .

Every now and then, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, he was allowed to direct one or the other (not overly budgeted) movie. His best known work is probably the 1966 Batman movie Batman keeps the world in suspense . A good decade later, in Iran (then still ruled by the Shah), he directed the internationally cast and co-produced agent thriller Missile X - Neutron Bomb Secret Order , which was also his last movie. His last individual productions were several television films in the early 1980s with the black child star Gary Coleman at the time , of whom he also made a 40-minute video portrait in the middle of the same decade.

In 1989, Martinson, who won two less important film awards in 1972 (Golden Gryphon for Batman keeps the world in suspense ) and 2006 (Golden Boot), withdrew from any directorial activity. Leslie H. Martinson, who was married twice, died in 2016 at the age of 101.

Filmography

Only single productions for the cinema, unless otherwise stated

  • 1954: The Atomic Kid
  • 1956: Hot Rod Girl
  • 1957: Hot Rod Rumble
  • 1961: My Best Friend (Lad: A Dog)
  • 1962: Black Gold
  • 1962: FBI Code 98
  • 1962: patrol boat PT 109 ( PT 109 )
  • 1963: Beach Party by Moonlight (For Those Who Think Young)
  • 1966: Batman holds the world in suspense (Batman)
  • 1966: Fire Dragon ( Fathom )
  • 1969: The Challengers (TV Movie)
  • 1970: Mrs. Pollifax-Spy
  • 1971: How to Steal an Airplane (TV movie)
  • 1973:… And Millions Die (TV movie)
  • 1976: Escape from Angola
  • 1978: Rescue From Gilligan's Island (TV movie)
  • 1978: Missile X - secret mission neutron bomb
  • 1981: The Kid With the Broken Halo (TV movie)
  • 1982: Das kleine Superhirn ( The Kid with the 200 IQ ) (TV movie)
  • 1984: The Fantastic World of DC Collins (TV movie)

literature

  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia , Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 910.

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personal data
SURNAME Martinson, Leslie H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martinson, Leslie Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television director
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , United States
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2016
Place of death Los Angeles , USA