Martin Milner, Brilliant of ‘Adam-12,’ ‘Route 66,’ Dies at 83, Martin Milner, who starred on TV on “Adam-12” with Kent McCord and, earlier, on “Route 66” with George Maharis, died Sunday night, Diana Downing, a adumbrative for his fan page, confirmed. He was 83.
Milner was aswell accepted for his roles as a applesauce guitarist in the ablaze 1957 blur “Sweet Smell of Success” and in the 1967 affected archetypal “Valley of the Dolls.”
Milner began acting in movies while a teen, afterwards his ancestor got him an agent, aboriginal actualization in the 1947 archetypal “Life With Father.” The blur starred William Powell and Irene Dunne, and appropriately Milner, forth with his co-star Elizabeth Taylor, bridged the ancestors in Hollywood amid the aureate age and abreast era.
He appeared as Administrator Pete Molloy alongside Kent McCord’s Administrator Jim Reed in NBC’s “Adam-12” from 1968-75. Molloy was the seasoned, adeptness adept bringing forth Reed who was, at first, a rookie.
The avant-garde alternation had a added astute superior than antecedent cop shows: The partners, on which the appearance almost focused, would convoying with no abstraction what they would appointment through the advance of the day, and admirers got to attestant the highs and lows in their lives.
Milner had a continued affiliation with Jack Webb, whose Mark VII Ltd. produced “Adam-12” and had produced “Dragnet” back 1951. Afterwards Webb and Milner met on the set of the cine “Halls of Montezuma” in 1950, Webb casting Milner in assorted roles on “Dragnet” in the aboriginal ’50s, aboriginal on radio and again if the abomination ball transitioned to TV, area Milner appeared in six episodes of “Dragnet” from 1952-55.
Milner even appeared as a bagman in the Webb-directed 1955 affection “Pete Kelly’s Blues.” (The amateur did not apperceive how to play the guitar, so he was not absolutely arena in “Sweet Smell of Success.”)
Webb after chose Milner to brilliant in “Adam-12” and directed the pilot episode; as a producer, Webb admired to do crossover episodes amid his assorted alternation for promotional purposes; Officers Molloy and Reed were alien on episodes of “Dragnet” and aswell appeared on episodes of the abrupt Mark VII appearance “The D.A.,” starring Robert Conrad, as able-bodied as on “Emergency.”
“Route 66” ran on CBS from 1960-64, about a decade afore “Adam-12” and advisedly not produced by Webb: Written and lensed beyond North America and aggressive by the spirit of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the alternation followed Milner’s Tod Stiles and George Maharis’ Buz Murdock as they catholic from boondocks to boondocks in a Corvette, exploring amusing issues and the alteration cultural landscape.
As “Adam-12” concluded in 1975, Milner transitioned calmly to the Irwin Allen-produced alternation “Swiss Ancestors Robinson,” in which he played the paterfamilias. If that alternation accepted abbreviate lived, Milner went on to arise in a array of TV movies; there was aswell a bedfellow atom on “Police Story.”
In the 1989 TV cine “Nashville Beat,” Kent McCord (who had a adventure credit) and Milner reunited onscreen, with McCord as a cop from L.A. who visits Milner, a onetime LAPD administrator who confused to Nashville and rose to captain. Together they activity a man abaft accretion assemblage activity.
Also in the ’80s Milner guested on “Fantasy Island,” “Airwolf” and “MacGyver” (playing MacGyver’s father), a part of added shows. On “Murder, She Wrote” he appeared in 5 altered roles amid 1985 and 1996.
After his endure appointment with Jessica Fletcher, the amateur appeared on “Diagnosis Murder” in 1997 and thereupon retired from the screen.
Back at the alpha of his career, the young, categorical Milner appeared in a amount of war movies, including two with John Wayne, “Sands of Iwo Jima” and “Operation Pacific,” and one with Richard Widmark, “Halls of Montezuma.” (The amateur did a ample amount of war movies, of capricious quality, over the advance of his blur career.) But Milner aswell did a teen-centered ball and a teencentric social-issues drama.
He got his alpha in television aboriginal in his career and aboriginal in the history of the medium, guesting on “The Lone Ranger” in 1950 and alternating on eight episodes of “The Stu Erwin Show” in 1950-51.
Milner confused amid blur and TV throughout the 1950s.
In 1951’s “I Want You,” starring Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire and Farley Granger, Milner’s appearance has been drafted for account in the Korean War, and his ancestor pleads with Milner’s employer to acknowledge the kid “indispensable,” which would beggarly he could abide alive and abstain the fight. Milner’s employer, played by Andrews, refuses, and Milner’s appearance is after dead in action. Milner had not yet fabricated it: Though his role (if not, perhaps, his performance) is axial to the film, the New York Times did not acknowledgment him by name in its review.
The amateur appeared in the blur noir “The Captive City”; the banana fantasy “My Wife’s Best Friend,” starring Anne Baxter; and the Western “Springfield Rifle,” with Gary Cooper, to accord a faculty of the accumulation of assignments Milner was cartoon in the aboriginal ’50s.
In 1955 he appeared in a baby role in”Mister Roberts,” starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney and William Powell.
By 1956 the advance had angry for Milner: He was now accomplishing added television than film, conceivably balked that he was still relegated to little added than bit locations in A pictures and had to await on B pictures for somewhat added absolute acknowledging roles. Still, he had a brace of his a lot of memorable blur roles advanced of him.
In 1957 he appeared in two pictures starring Burt Lancaster. The aboriginal was “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,” in which Milner played James, the youngest of the four Earp brothers (at atomic in the movie). The additional was “Sweet Smell of Success,” a actual altered blur in which Lancaster played a abrasive New York columnist who’s afield careful of his sister, who becomes romantically complex with Milner’s applesauce guitarist; Lancaster’s appearance stops at annihilation to abort this relationship. Milner assuredly angry in an absorbing achievement in an A picture, and even got his acknowledgment in the New York Times: “Marty Milner is aboveboard and believable as her dogged adventurous vis-a-vis.”
He after had appropriate acknowledging roles in A pictures “Marjorie Morningstar,” starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly, and “Compulson,” starring Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman. Reviewing the latter, the Times said, “Mention should be made, too, of Martin Milner’s aseptic delineation of her fiancé.”
Despite the success these newest blur roles represented Milner was spending added and added of his time guesting on assorted TV series, and he seemed to adjudge that corruption films would allow him added exposure. In 1960 he fabricated two actual silly, actual bad movies with Mamie Van Doren and the abhorrence blur “13 Ghosts,” produced by William Castle. He was noticeably featured in all of these.
But again “Route 66” afflicted the advance of his career.
Martin Sam Milner was built-in in Detroit. Both his parents were in showbiz: His ancestor was a blur distributor, his mother a dancer.
Milner was a man of assorted interests. He approved Broadway in 1967 in brief-running “The Ninety Day Mistress.”
After he chock-full acting, he co-hosted a radio appearance in Southern California, “Let’s Talk HookUp,” about freshwater and abyssal fishing, for a amount of years. In the aboriginal 1970s he bought a 24-acre avocado acreage area he lived with his family.
Survivors cover Milner’s wife, Judith Bess “Judy” Jones, a above accompanist and extra to whom he had been affiliated back 1957; babe Molly; and sons Stuart and Andrew. Babe Amy, who appeared in an adventure of “Adam-12,” died of astute myeloid leukemia in 2004.
Milner was aswell accepted for his roles as a applesauce guitarist in the ablaze 1957 blur “Sweet Smell of Success” and in the 1967 affected archetypal “Valley of the Dolls.”
He appeared as Administrator Pete Molloy alongside Kent McCord’s Administrator Jim Reed in NBC’s “Adam-12” from 1968-75. Molloy was the seasoned, adeptness adept bringing forth Reed who was, at first, a rookie.
The avant-garde alternation had a added astute superior than antecedent cop shows: The partners, on which the appearance almost focused, would convoying with no abstraction what they would appointment through the advance of the day, and admirers got to attestant the highs and lows in their lives.
Milner had a continued affiliation with Jack Webb, whose Mark VII Ltd. produced “Adam-12” and had produced “Dragnet” back 1951. Afterwards Webb and Milner met on the set of the cine “Halls of Montezuma” in 1950, Webb casting Milner in assorted roles on “Dragnet” in the aboriginal ’50s, aboriginal on radio and again if the abomination ball transitioned to TV, area Milner appeared in six episodes of “Dragnet” from 1952-55.
Milner even appeared as a bagman in the Webb-directed 1955 affection “Pete Kelly’s Blues.” (The amateur did not apperceive how to play the guitar, so he was not absolutely arena in “Sweet Smell of Success.”)
Webb after chose Milner to brilliant in “Adam-12” and directed the pilot episode; as a producer, Webb admired to do crossover episodes amid his assorted alternation for promotional purposes; Officers Molloy and Reed were alien on episodes of “Dragnet” and aswell appeared on episodes of the abrupt Mark VII appearance “The D.A.,” starring Robert Conrad, as able-bodied as on “Emergency.”
“Route 66” ran on CBS from 1960-64, about a decade afore “Adam-12” and advisedly not produced by Webb: Written and lensed beyond North America and aggressive by the spirit of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the alternation followed Milner’s Tod Stiles and George Maharis’ Buz Murdock as they catholic from boondocks to boondocks in a Corvette, exploring amusing issues and the alteration cultural landscape.
As “Adam-12” concluded in 1975, Milner transitioned calmly to the Irwin Allen-produced alternation “Swiss Ancestors Robinson,” in which he played the paterfamilias. If that alternation accepted abbreviate lived, Milner went on to arise in a array of TV movies; there was aswell a bedfellow atom on “Police Story.”
In the 1989 TV cine “Nashville Beat,” Kent McCord (who had a adventure credit) and Milner reunited onscreen, with McCord as a cop from L.A. who visits Milner, a onetime LAPD administrator who confused to Nashville and rose to captain. Together they activity a man abaft accretion assemblage activity.
Also in the ’80s Milner guested on “Fantasy Island,” “Airwolf” and “MacGyver” (playing MacGyver’s father), a part of added shows. On “Murder, She Wrote” he appeared in 5 altered roles amid 1985 and 1996.
After his endure appointment with Jessica Fletcher, the amateur appeared on “Diagnosis Murder” in 1997 and thereupon retired from the screen.
Back at the alpha of his career, the young, categorical Milner appeared in a amount of war movies, including two with John Wayne, “Sands of Iwo Jima” and “Operation Pacific,” and one with Richard Widmark, “Halls of Montezuma.” (The amateur did a ample amount of war movies, of capricious quality, over the advance of his blur career.) But Milner aswell did a teen-centered ball and a teencentric social-issues drama.
He got his alpha in television aboriginal in his career and aboriginal in the history of the medium, guesting on “The Lone Ranger” in 1950 and alternating on eight episodes of “The Stu Erwin Show” in 1950-51.
Milner confused amid blur and TV throughout the 1950s.
In 1951’s “I Want You,” starring Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire and Farley Granger, Milner’s appearance has been drafted for account in the Korean War, and his ancestor pleads with Milner’s employer to acknowledge the kid “indispensable,” which would beggarly he could abide alive and abstain the fight. Milner’s employer, played by Andrews, refuses, and Milner’s appearance is after dead in action. Milner had not yet fabricated it: Though his role (if not, perhaps, his performance) is axial to the film, the New York Times did not acknowledgment him by name in its review.
The amateur appeared in the blur noir “The Captive City”; the banana fantasy “My Wife’s Best Friend,” starring Anne Baxter; and the Western “Springfield Rifle,” with Gary Cooper, to accord a faculty of the accumulation of assignments Milner was cartoon in the aboriginal ’50s.
In 1955 he appeared in a baby role in”Mister Roberts,” starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney and William Powell.
By 1956 the advance had angry for Milner: He was now accomplishing added television than film, conceivably balked that he was still relegated to little added than bit locations in A pictures and had to await on B pictures for somewhat added absolute acknowledging roles. Still, he had a brace of his a lot of memorable blur roles advanced of him.
In 1957 he appeared in two pictures starring Burt Lancaster. The aboriginal was “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,” in which Milner played James, the youngest of the four Earp brothers (at atomic in the movie). The additional was “Sweet Smell of Success,” a actual altered blur in which Lancaster played a abrasive New York columnist who’s afield careful of his sister, who becomes romantically complex with Milner’s applesauce guitarist; Lancaster’s appearance stops at annihilation to abort this relationship. Milner assuredly angry in an absorbing achievement in an A picture, and even got his acknowledgment in the New York Times: “Marty Milner is aboveboard and believable as her dogged adventurous vis-a-vis.”
He after had appropriate acknowledging roles in A pictures “Marjorie Morningstar,” starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly, and “Compulson,” starring Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman. Reviewing the latter, the Times said, “Mention should be made, too, of Martin Milner’s aseptic delineation of her fiancé.”
Despite the success these newest blur roles represented Milner was spending added and added of his time guesting on assorted TV series, and he seemed to adjudge that corruption films would allow him added exposure. In 1960 he fabricated two actual silly, actual bad movies with Mamie Van Doren and the abhorrence blur “13 Ghosts,” produced by William Castle. He was noticeably featured in all of these.
But again “Route 66” afflicted the advance of his career.
Martin Sam Milner was built-in in Detroit. Both his parents were in showbiz: His ancestor was a blur distributor, his mother a dancer.
Milner was a man of assorted interests. He approved Broadway in 1967 in brief-running “The Ninety Day Mistress.”
After he chock-full acting, he co-hosted a radio appearance in Southern California, “Let’s Talk HookUp,” about freshwater and abyssal fishing, for a amount of years. In the aboriginal 1970s he bought a 24-acre avocado acreage area he lived with his family.
Survivors cover Milner’s wife, Judith Bess “Judy” Jones, a above accompanist and extra to whom he had been affiliated back 1957; babe Molly; and sons Stuart and Andrew. Babe Amy, who appeared in an adventure of “Adam-12,” died of astute myeloid leukemia in 2004.
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