Martin Milner, Star of ‘Adam-12,’ ‘Route 66,’ Dies at 83,Martin Milner, an amateur best accepted for his roles on "Route 66" and "Adam-12," died at the age of 83 on Sunday at his home in Carsbad, Calif. His wife Judy cited the could cause of his afterlife as affection failure, according to the New York Times.
Born in Detroit in 1931, Milner's ancestors confused about frequently if he was young, eventually clearing in Los Angeles. Milner got his alpha in blur in the 1940s, ablution his career in 1947's "Life with Father" afore affective to television. Milner landed a accessory role in the 1949 John Wayne blur "The Sands of Iwo Jima," afterward up with an actualization in "Compulsion," which starred Orson Welles.
Milner enjoyed baby roles in a amount of high-profile war and activity films in the 1950s, including "Last of the Comanches" and "Operation Pacific," accompanying authoritative bedfellow appearances in TV shows like "The Lone Ranger," "Dragnet," and "The Life of Riley." He met his wife, Judith Bess "Judy" Jones in 1956, and the two angry the bond a year later.
For TV directors, Milner was accepted as an amateur who could play a young-looking advocate with a adolescent agreeableness and a admiration to advice others, which fabricated him a accepted best for acknowledging roles. This adeptness no agnosticism helped him acreage the role of Tod Stiles in the CBS alternation "Route 66" which commutual him with George Maharis arena the role of Buz Murdock. The series' apriorism was two men traveling the U.S. in a Chevrolet Corvette endemic by Milner's character, and allowance the strangers-of-the-week, with anniversary adventure getting set in a altered location.
The appearance of Buz Murdock would be replaced by Glenn Corbett arena Linc Case on the series, with Maharis authoritative a amount of bedfellow appearances thereafter. The alternation ran for four years, from 1960 through 1964, and is now in the action of getting getting rebooted.
Milner was aswell accepted for his role in the badge ball "Adam-12" set in Los Angeles, in which he played Officer Peter Joseph "Pete" Malloy, a adept of the force. The badge procedural was a advertiser of abounding "serious" badge shows that debuted in 1990s, application absolute badge cases as the inpiration for stories.
After "Adam-12" ended, Milner guest-starred in a array of TV alternation into the 1990s including "The Swiss Ancestors Robinson," "Murder, She Wrote," "MacGyver," "Columbo" and "RoboCop: The Series." His about-face as Pete Malloy in "Adam-12," however, would be his endure approved TV role, admitting Milner would go on to host a radio appearance about fishing blue-blooded "Let's Talk Hook-Up."
Milner is survived by two sons, a babe and four grandchildren.
Born in Detroit in 1931, Milner's ancestors confused about frequently if he was young, eventually clearing in Los Angeles. Milner got his alpha in blur in the 1940s, ablution his career in 1947's "Life with Father" afore affective to television. Milner landed a accessory role in the 1949 John Wayne blur "The Sands of Iwo Jima," afterward up with an actualization in "Compulsion," which starred Orson Welles.
Milner enjoyed baby roles in a amount of high-profile war and activity films in the 1950s, including "Last of the Comanches" and "Operation Pacific," accompanying authoritative bedfellow appearances in TV shows like "The Lone Ranger," "Dragnet," and "The Life of Riley." He met his wife, Judith Bess "Judy" Jones in 1956, and the two angry the bond a year later.
For TV directors, Milner was accepted as an amateur who could play a young-looking advocate with a adolescent agreeableness and a admiration to advice others, which fabricated him a accepted best for acknowledging roles. This adeptness no agnosticism helped him acreage the role of Tod Stiles in the CBS alternation "Route 66" which commutual him with George Maharis arena the role of Buz Murdock. The series' apriorism was two men traveling the U.S. in a Chevrolet Corvette endemic by Milner's character, and allowance the strangers-of-the-week, with anniversary adventure getting set in a altered location.
The appearance of Buz Murdock would be replaced by Glenn Corbett arena Linc Case on the series, with Maharis authoritative a amount of bedfellow appearances thereafter. The alternation ran for four years, from 1960 through 1964, and is now in the action of getting getting rebooted.
Milner was aswell accepted for his role in the badge ball "Adam-12" set in Los Angeles, in which he played Officer Peter Joseph "Pete" Malloy, a adept of the force. The badge procedural was a advertiser of abounding "serious" badge shows that debuted in 1990s, application absolute badge cases as the inpiration for stories.
After "Adam-12" ended, Milner guest-starred in a array of TV alternation into the 1990s including "The Swiss Ancestors Robinson," "Murder, She Wrote," "MacGyver," "Columbo" and "RoboCop: The Series." His about-face as Pete Malloy in "Adam-12," however, would be his endure approved TV role, admitting Milner would go on to host a radio appearance about fishing blue-blooded "Let's Talk Hook-Up."
Milner is survived by two sons, a babe and four grandchildren.
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