Martin Milner

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Martin "Marty" Sam Milner (born December 28, 1931 in Detroit , Michigan , † September 6, 2015 in Carlsbad , California ) was an American film and stage actor .

Life

Martin Milner was born in Detroit in 1931 to the film distributor Sam Gordon Milner and the dancer Mildred "Jerre" Martin. The family later moved several times. In 1935 she lived in San Francisco and later settled in Seattle . From 1940 the Milner family can be found in Los Angeles . As a ten-year-old, Milner gained his first experience in children's theater performances.

He had his first film role in 1947 in Our Lives with Father at the side of William Powell and Irene Dunne . Shortly after filming was over, he contracted poliomyelitis and was unable to work for almost a year. In 1949 he graduated from North Hollywood High School. In 1950, while filming the war film Okinawa (1951), he met the actor and producer Jack Webb , with whom he later worked repeatedly for his radio series Police Report. After further small roles in film and on television, Milner was drafted into the army in 1952 and served there for two years in a unit that, among other things, produced training films for the army.

In 1960 he received the bid for the role of the death style in the television series Route 66 , which he played from 1960 to 1964 in 116 episodes at the side of George Maharis (1960-1963) and Glenn Corbett (1963-1964).

Jack Webb gave Milner the role of Officer Pete Malloy in the Adam-12 police series in 1968 , which he played alongside Kent McCord in 174 episodes until 1975 . From 1975 to 1976 he took on the role of father Karl Robinson in the television series Die Schweizer Familie Robinson , an adaptation of the Swiss Robinson .

Milner then worked as an actor until the end of the 1990s, where he was mainly seen in television series and television films. In addition, he occasionally appeared in theater productions, including in a 1980 production of The Tender Trap at the side of his wife.

Between 1994 and 2004 moderated Milner, together with Pete Gray in San Diegoer radio station XTRA Sports 690 AM the fishermen -Talkshow Let's Talk Hook-Up .

Private life

In 1957 he married the actress Judith Bess Jones. The marriage had four children. His eldest daughter Amy died in December 2004 of acute myeloid leukemia . Milner died of heart failure on September 6, 2015, at the age of 83 at his home in Carlsbad, California.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1947: Our Life with Father
  • 1949: You were our comrade (Sands of Iwo Jima)
  • 1950–1951: The Stu Erwin Show (TV series, eight episodes)
  • 1951: Okinawa (Halls of Montezuma)
  • 1951: Operation Seeadler (Operation Pacific)
  • 1952: Counter Espionage (Springfield Rifle)
  • 1953: Thirsty Lips (Last of the Comanches)
  • 1953: Through the yellow hell (Destination Gobi)
  • 1953–1958: The Life of Riley (TV series, four episodes)
  • 1954: Dial M for Murder (Dial M For Murder)
  • 1955: No time for heroism (Mister Roberts)
  • 1955: It Happened in One Night (Pete Kelly's Blues)
  • 1956: Testpiloten (On the Threshold of Space)
  • 1956: Escaped Death (Pillars of the Sky)
  • 1957: Death lurks everywhere (Man Afraid)
  • 1957: Two accounts (Gunfight at the OK Corral)
  • 1957: Your Fate in My Hand (Sweet Smell of Success)
  • 1958: The Love of Marjorie Morningstar (Marjorie Morningstar)
  • 1959: The compulsion to evil (Compulsion)
  • 1960–1964: Route 66 (TV series, 116 episodes)
  • 1966: Love play in the snow (Ski Fever)
  • 1967: The Four from the Amazon ( Sullivan's Empire , TV movie)
  • 1967: Valley of the Dolls (Valley of the Dolls)
  • 1968–1975: Adam-12 (TV series, 174 episodes)
  • 1971: Columbo (Deadly Separation, TV series, an episode)
  • 1974: Hurricane (TV movie)
  • 1975–1976: The Swiss Family Robinson ( Swiss Family Robinson , TV series, 20 episodes)
  • 1976: The flood breaks loose ( Flood ! , TV movie)
  • 1977: Death Flight ( SST: Death Flight , TV movie)
  • 1979: Danger Above the Clouds ( Crisis in Mid-air , TV movie)
  • 1981: The Ordeal of Bill Carney (Movie made for TV)
  • 1985: Airwolf (TV series, an episode)
  • 1985–1996: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , television series, five episodes)
  • 1989: The Shark from LA ( Nashville Beat , TV movie)
  • 1992: Life Goes On (TV series, five episodes)
  • 1994: RoboCop (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1997: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder , TV series, an episode)

Web links

Commons : Martin Milner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Census from mid-1940 confirmed this year.
  2. ^ A b c d Milner Grew Up In the Business. In: news.google.com , Lewiston Evening Journal, Nov. 10, 1960.
  3. ↑ Obituaries - 12/23/04. In: utsandiego.com . Retrieved April 1, 2013.
  4. ^ Anita Gates: Martin Milner Dies at 83; Actor Made His Name on 'Route 66'. In: nytimes.com , The New York Times , September 7, 2015, accessed September 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Milner, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milner, Martin Sam (full name); Milner, Marty Sam (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2015
Place of death Carlsbad , California , United States