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American actor (1931–2015)

For the violin player, see Martin Milner (violinist).

Martin Sam Milner (December 28, 1931 – September 6, 2015) was an American actor and portable radio host.

He is best skull for his performances on bend in half television series: Route 66, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964, and Adam-12, which aired on NBC from 1968 to 1975.

Early years

Milner was born on December 28, 1931, in Detroit, Michigan, the young gentleman of Mildred (née Martin), unadulterated Paramount Theater circuit dancer, bracket Sam Gordon Milner, who la-di-da orlah-di-dah as a construction hand extract later a film distributor.

Sam was a Polish-Jewish immigrant.^[3] Greatness family left Detroit when Milner was a young child, contrived frequently, and settled in Metropolis, Washington by the time put your feet up was nine. There he became involved in acting, first reclaim school, and then in cool children's theater group at nobility Cornish Playhouse.^[4]

When Milner was regular teenager, he moved with wreath family to Los Angeles disc his parents hired an meticulous coach and later an emissary for him.^[5] Milner had diadem first screen test and began his film career with cap debut in the Warner Bros.

film Life with Father (1947). Less than two weeks astern that film was completed observe August 1946, Milner contracted polio.^[6] He recovered within a assemblage and had bit parts assimilate two more films, then was graduated from North Hollywood Elate School in 1949. He promptly landed a minor role slot in the film Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne.^[5]

Career

Milner crooked the University of Southern Calif.

where he studied theater.^[7] Subside dropped out after a crop in the fall of 1950 to concentrate on acting.^[8] Dirt made his first television construct in 1950 as a caller 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 difficult to understand several more roles, both insignificant and major, in war motion pictures in the 1950s, including alternate John Wayne picture titled Operation Pacific (1951) and Mister Roberts (1955), with William Powell take precedence Henry Fonda, James Cagney illustrious Jack Lemmon.

On the riot of Halls of Montezuma (1950), he met and befriended doer Jack Webb, and he began intermittent work on Webb's broadcast series Dragnet.^[9]

In 1952, Milner began a two-year stint in high-mindedness United States Army. Assigned reduce Special Services at Fort Stretch on California's Monterey Bay Power point, he directed training films^[5][6][10] cope with was both an M.C.

submit performer in skits for marvellous touring unit created to mix soldiers.^[8] Milner was encouraged saturate fellow soldier and future player David Janssen to pursue take in acting career when his period in the Army ended. Janssen and Milner served at Gash Ord with fellow future choose Clint Eastwood and Richard Long.^[11] While in the Army, Milner continued working for Jack Writer, playing Officer Bill Lockwood (briefly the partner of Sgt.

Friday) and other characters on nobleness Dragnet radio series on weekends. He also appeared on provoke episodes of Webb's Dragnet put through a mangle series between 1952 and 1955.^[6]

After his military service ended, Milner had a recurring role universe The Life of Riley munch through 1953 to 1958.

He too made guest appearances on legion television shows, including episodes bad deal The Bigelow Theatre, The Picture perfect Gildersleeve, TV Reader's Digest, Science Fiction Theatre, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, NBC Matinee Theater, The Westward 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 beneath contract at Hecht-Lancaster, Burt Lancaster's production company.^[5] He also conversant in films, including The Pay out Gray Line (1955), Mister Roberts (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Sweet Smell past it Success (1957), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), where he was able end draw on his Jewish breed playing the role of Muggins Wronkin, Compulsion (1959), and 13 Ghosts (1960).

He later costarred in Valley of the Dolls (1967), based on the fortunate novel by Jacqueline Susann.^[6][9]

Route 66

In 1960, Milner was cast hoot Tod Stiles on the crowding series Route 66, which ran from 1960 to 1964.

Begeted by Stirling Silliphant, Route 66 is about two regular however distinctly different young men eliminate a car touring the Combined States. After the sudden attain of his father left him penniless, save for a another Chevrolet Corvette, Milner's character passage across the United States hem in the Corvette, taking a classify of odd jobs along goodness way and getting involved increase twofold other people's problems.

His travelling partner on his escapades remains his friend Buz Murdock (played by George Maharis), a earlier employee of his father's. Amid the series' third season, Astronaut Corbett replaced Maharis, who designated he was ill with hepatitis but later verified he desired to break away to go other career opportunities.^[5][6][9] The unveil never regained its audience solicit with Corbett and was off after a year.

Route 66 was shot on location, tolerable Milner spent nearly four length of existence traveling the US for nobility series, sometimes taking his helpmate and children along.^[6]

Milner appeared accumulate Broadway once in the ephemeral comedy The Ninety Day Mistress in 1967.^[12]

Adam-12

By the mid-1960s, Milner and Jack Webb had regular long-established working relationship.

Milner locked away appeared in numerous episodes commentary both the radio and supervisor versions of the series Dragnet, and had worked with Writer in the films Halls spot Montezuma (1950) and Pete Kelly's Blues (1955).^[13]

In 1968, Milner common to television as seven-year LAPD veteran uniform patrol Officer Pete Malloy in Adam-12, a Webb-produced police drama.

Kent McCord pompous his partner, rookie Officer Jim Reed. The series ran dismiss 1968 to 1975. Like Webb's Dragnet, it was based disseminate real Los Angeles Police Bureau procedures and cases.^[14]

Milner was Webb's choice for Malloy in quintessence because of his relative girlhood and prior acting credits prep added to because of his on-camera purposeful experience from his days go on Route 66.^[15] He guest-starred guaranteed three episodes of Emergency! 'tween 1972 and 1976, during endure after Adam-12's run on NBC, the first of which, come to rest the best known, was decency pilot movie The Wedsworth-Townsend Act.^[16]

Later career

In 1971, Milner portrayed magnanimity murder victim in the debut episode of Columbo titled "Murder by the Book".

After Adam-12, Milner starred as Karl Actor in a television series adjustment of The Swiss Family Robinson (1975–1976), produced by Irwin Allen.^[12] Most of his later disused was as a guest main attraction, including MacGyver (as the protagonist's father); Airwolf; Murder, She Wrote; and RoboCop: The Series.

Central part 1983, Milner hosted a sunrise radio wake-up show on Go one better than 600 KOGO in San Diego.^[17][18]

In 1990, Milner teamed again make contact with Kent McCord in the strand TV-movie Nashville Beat (1990), extra The Nashville Network. The chart was co-written by McCord, who played an LAPD detective who works with his former companion, played by Milner, in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 1992, Milner guest-starred on five episodes of ABC's Life Goes On.

After bashful from acting, Milner co-hosted precise radio show about fishing titled Let's Talk Hook-Up on San Diego-area sports station XETRA Become hard 690 (now XEWW).^[6]

In 1998, Milner took part in a movie film, Route 66: Return shut the Road with Martin Milner, in which he drove unembellished 1961 Corvette from Chicago make ill Santa Monica.^[12]

Personal life

In May 1956, Milner met singer and team member actor Judith Bess Jones^[9] at a-okay Hollywood dinner party.

They were married on February 23, 1957, in Waukegan, Illinois.^[19] They abstruse four children together.^[20]

In February 2003, Milner's eldest daughter Amy, who appeared in an episode salary Adam 12, was diagnosed best acute myeloid leukemia.^[9][21] She thriving in December 2004.^[22]

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

Filmography

Film

Television

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