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BIOGRAPHY
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Martin was born in the Bronx, New York. His family moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
when he was ten years old. He became a Paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division assigned to the South Pacific
during World War II. After the war ended, he attended Penn State University, which has since honored him with the
Distinguished Artist Award.
Martin also attended Erwin Poscator's Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research. While there, he won the Off-Broadway Best
Actor Award in Wolfgang Borchert's Outside the Door. His many Broadway credits include Arthur Miller's adaptation
of Enemy of the People, with Frederick March. He received the Theatre World Award and the Donaldson Award for John
Steinbeck's Burning Bright. He also appeared in John Van Druten's I Am A Camera for which he received a Tony
nomination. During his Broadway career, he had the extreme privilege of working with some of the greatest First
Ladies of the Broadway Theatre ... Katherine Cornell, Helen Hayes, Julie Harris, Ruth Gordon, Geraldine Page and Uta
Hagen, among others.
Martin moved to Los Angeles, where he became a Practitioner of Religious Science in 1990, tutored by Carlo DiGioana in North Hollywood, Ca.
He continued his acting career by performing in many stage productions and TV series including The Six Million Dollar
Man, The Bionic Woman and Dallas. He has also produced and directed and taught acting for years. He is a
lifetime member of the Actor's Studio and a member of Theatre West, and now directs most of his energies to writing.
His novel, Epitaph for Danny Brown, is soon to be published. His play, Ever Beginning, aka Joe & Flo, was optioned
by director Mark Rydell for Broadway and several of his screenplays are being considered for production. |
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