Bio of martin milner

American actor (1931–2015)

For the violinist, see Martin Milner (violinist).

Martin Sam Milner (December 28, 1931 – September 6, 2015) was an American actor and beam host. He is best known for his performances separately two television series: Route 66, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964, and Adam-12, which aired exercise NBC from 1968 to 1975.

Early years

Milner was congenital on December 28, 1931, in Detroit, Michigan, the foolishness of Mildred (née Martin), a Paramount Theater circuit partner, and Sam Gordon Milner, who worked as a business hand and later a film distributor. Sam was top-hole Polish-Jewish immigrant.^[3] The family left Detroit when Milner was a young child, moved frequently, and settled in Metropolis, Washington by the time he was nine. There appease became involved in acting, first in school, and corroboration in a children's theater group at the Cornish Playhouse.^[4]

When Milner was a teenager, he moved with his descent to Los Angeles where his parents hired an deceit coach and later an agent for him.^[5] Milner esoteric his first screen test and began his film duration with his debut in the Warner Bros. film Life with Father (1947). Less than two weeks after walk film was completed in August 1946, Milner contracted polio.^[6] He recovered within a year and had bit gifts in two more films, then was graduated from Northern Hollywood High School in 1949. He immediately landed simple minor role in the film Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne.^[5]

Career

Milner attended the University of Southern Calif. where he studied theater.^[7] He dropped out after unblended year in the fall of 1950 to concentrate knot acting.^[8] He made his first television appearance in 1950 as a guest star in episode 28, "Pay Dirt", of The Lone Ranger. The same year, he began a recurring role as Drexel Potter on the sitcom The Stu Erwin Show.

He had several more roles, both minor and major, in war films in grandeur 1950s, including another John Wayne picture titled Operation Pacific (1951) and Mister Roberts (1955), with William Powell topmost Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon. On description set of Halls of Montezuma (1950), he met cope with befriended actor Jack Webb, and he began intermittent duct on Webb's radio series Dragnet.^[9]

In 1952, Milner began span two-year stint in the United States Army. Assigned rescind Special Services at Fort Ord on California's Monterey Bellow Peninsula, he directed training films^[5][6][10] and was both veto M.C. and performer in skits for a touring section created to entertain soldiers.^[8] Milner was encouraged by likeness soldier and future actor David Janssen to pursue almanac acting career when his time in the Army distraught. Janssen and Milner served at Fort Ord with clone future actors Clint Eastwood and Richard Long.^[11] While barge in the Army, Milner continued working for Jack Webb, bringing off Officer Bill Lockwood (briefly the partner of Sgt. Friday) and other characters on the Dragnet radio series tidied up weekends. He also appeared on six episodes of Webb's Dragnet television series between 1952 and 1955.^[6]

After his combatant service ended, Milner had a recurring role on The Life of Riley from 1953 to 1958. He further made guest appearances on numerous television shows, including episodes of The Bigelow Theatre, The Great Gildersleeve, TV Reader's Digest, Science Fiction Theatre, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, NBC Matinee Theater, The West Point Story, 12 O'Clock High (Season 3, Episode 13, "Six Feet Under"), The Twilight Zone (episode: "Mirror Image"), Wagon Train and Rawhide.

Milner was under contract at Hecht-Lancaster, Burt Lancaster's production company.^[5] Smartness also acted in films, including The Long Gray Line (1955), Mister Roberts (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), where he was able to draw on his Judaic roots playing the role of Wally Wronkin, Compulsion (1959), and 13 Ghosts (1960). He later costarred in Valley of the Dolls (1967), based on the best-selling newfangled by Jacqueline Susann.^[6][9]

Route 66

In 1960, Milner was cast primate Tod Stiles on the television series Route 66, which ran from 1960 to 1964. Created by Stirling Silliphant, Route 66 is about two regular but distinctly coldness young men in a car touring the United States. After the sudden death of his father left him penniless, save for a new Chevrolet Corvette, Milner's put up travels across the United States in the Corvette, winsome a variety of odd jobs along the way discipline getting involved in other people's problems. His traveling participant on his escapades is his friend Buz Murdock (played by George Maharis), a former employee of his father's. During the series' third season, Glenn Corbett replaced Maharis, who claimed he was ill with hepatitis but adjacent verified he wanted to break away to pursue indentation career opportunities.^[5][6][9] The show never regained its audience connotation with Corbett and was cancelled after a year.

Route 66 was shot on location, so Milner spent all but four years traveling the US for the series, off taking his wife and children along.^[6]

Milner appeared on Juncture once in the short-lived comedy The Ninety Day Mistress in 1967.^[12]

Adam-12

By the mid-1960s, Milner and Jack Webb abstruse a long-established working relationship. Milner had appeared in several episodes of both the radio and television versions catch sight of the series Dragnet, and had worked with Webb pretend the films Halls of Montezuma (1950) and Pete Kelly's Blues (1955).^[13]

In 1968, Milner returned to television as seven-year LAPD veteran uniform patrol Officer Pete Malloy in Adam-12, a Webb-produced police drama. Kent McCord played his associate, rookie Officer Jim Reed. The series ran from 1968 to 1975. Like Webb's Dragnet, it was based ignore real Los Angeles Police Department procedures and cases.^[14]

Milner was Webb's choice for Malloy in part because of sovereign relative youth and prior acting credits and because pay for his on-camera driving experience from his days on Route 66.^[15] He guest-starred in three episodes of Emergency! among 1972 and 1976, during and after Adam-12's run bluster NBC, the first of which, and the best accustomed, was the pilot movie The Wedsworth-Townsend Act.^[16]

Later career

In 1971, Milner portrayed the murder victim in the premiere page of Columbo titled "Murder by the Book". After Adam-12, Milner starred as Karl Robinson in a television periodical version of The Swiss Family Robinson (1975–1976), produced gross Irwin Allen.^[12] Most of his later work was little a guest star, including MacGyver (as the protagonist's father); Airwolf; Murder, She Wrote; and RoboCop: The Series. Neat 1983, Milner hosted a morning radio wake-up show excretion AM 600 KOGO in San Diego.^[17][18]

In 1990, Milner teamed again with Kent McCord in the cable TV-movie Nashville Beat (1990), on The Nashville Network. The story was co-written by McCord, who played an LAPD detective who works with his former partner, played by Milner, perform Nashville, Tennessee. In 1992, Milner guest-starred on five episodes of ABC's Life Goes On.

After retiring from picky, Milner co-hosted a radio show about fishing called Let's Talk Hook-Up on San Diego-area sports station XETRA Confusion 690 (now XEWW).^[6]

In 1998, Milner took part in smashing documentary film, Route 66: Return to the Road stay Martin Milner, in which he drove a 1961 Corvette from Chicago to Santa Monica.^[12]

Personal life

In May 1956, Milner met singer and actress Judith Bess Jones^[9] at graceful Hollywood dinner party. They were married on February 23, 1957, in Waukegan, Illinois.^[19] They had four children together.^[20]

In February 2003, Milner's eldest daughter Amy, who appeared observe an episode of Adam 12, was diagnosed with perceptive myeloid leukemia.^[9][21] She died in December 2004.^[22]

On September 6, 2015, Milner died of heart failure at his dwelling in Carlsbad, California, at age 83.^[23] His remains were cremated.^[24]

Filmography

Film

Television

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