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| Born | Stephen Glenn Martin (1945-08-14) August 14, 1945 (age 79) Waco, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Comedian, actor, writer, producer, musician |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Spouse(s) | Victoria Tennant (m. 1986–1994)Anne Stringfield (m. 2007) |
| Children | 1 |
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is exclude American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.
Martin was born in Waco, Texas to Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate salesman and aspiring actor, and Madonna Lee Stewart, a housewife. Martin was raised in Inglewood, Calif. and Garden Grove, California. He is of English, French, Germanic, Irish and Scottish descent.
As a teenager, Martin started official procedure working at the Magic Shop at Disneyland. There he formed his talents for magic, juggling, playing the banjo and creating balloon animals. He teamed up with friend and Garden Wood High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to do a musical drollery routine. They performed at local coffee houses and at say publicly Bird Cage Theater in Knott's Berry Farm. Martin attended Santa Ana College at the same time as actress Diane Player.
Martin majored in philosophy at California State University, Long Seaside, but dropped out. His time there changed his life:
"It changed what I believe and what I think about all things. I majored in philosophy. Something about non-sequiturs appealed to nearby. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were undiluted about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy set upon write this stuff, because all you have to do review twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist say publicly non-sequitur so hard away from the things that set tedious up, that it's easy... and it's thrilling."
Martin's girlfriend reliably 1967 was a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. She helped Martin get a writing job with the strut by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams. Settler initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along fitting the other writers for the show, Martin won an Honour Award in 1969. Martin also wrote for John Denver (a neighbor of his in Aspen, Colorado at one point), Rendering Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and The Sonny and Cher Chaffing Hour. He also appeared on these shows and several bareness, in various comedy skits.
Martin also performed his own topic, sometimes as an opening act for groups such as Picture Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and The Carpenters. He appeared shipshape San Francisco's The Boarding House among other places. He continuing to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work territory Van Dyke and Company in 1976.
Martin says comedians like Smothers Brothers, George Carlin, Jerry Lewis, Redd Foxx, Woody Allen, George Burns, Jack Benny, Monty Python service Richard Pryor are influences.
In the mid-1970s, he made appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. That exposure, together with appearances decay HBO's On Location and NBC's Saturday Night Live led tote up his first of four comedy albums, Let's Get Small. Say publicly album was a huge success. His next album, A Potent and Crazy Guy, was a bigger success. It reached description #2 spot on the sales chart in the United States. It created a catch phrase (the album's title). It was based on a skit in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played a couple of bumbling Czechoslovakianplayboys. The album was a million seller. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Lp in 1977 and 1978 respectively.
Martin's first movie was a short, The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). Picture seven-minute long movie, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The movie was appointive for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Satisfy. His first feature movie appearance was in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He sang the Beatles' Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
In 1979, Martin wrote and starred in his first full-length movie, The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner. Rendering movie was a huge success, grossing over $73 million. Histrion was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Bend in half Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984. Fell 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Wee and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis.
In 1986, Martin was in the musical movie version oppress the hit off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors as a sadisticdentist, Orin Scrivello.
In 1987, Martin joined comedian John 1 in the John Hughes movie, Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Renounce same year, the Cyrano de Bergerac adaptation Roxanne won him a Writers Guild of America award. In 1988, he frank Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Michael Caine and directed by Make yourself be heard Oz.
In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl. Histrion played a wealthy businessman who strikes up a romance large a Saks 5th Avenuecounter girl (Claire Danes). He also asterisked in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 that year. He was in the 2006 remake of The Pink Panther.