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Leslie Martinson
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Director Born: Boston, MA Biography:Boston born and bred, onetime newspaper journalist "Leslie H. Martinson" settled down in Hollywood in 1936, accepting a long-term job as an MGM script clerk. He eased into directing with a handful of inexpensive TV western series in the early 1950s, then made his big-screen directorial bow in Republic's "The Atomic Kid", a lumpy "Mickey Rooney" vehicle. Most of Martinson's subsequent features were equally second-rate, though not all were treated as such by distributors. The director's "PT 109" (1963), "Batman" (1966) and "Fathom" (1967), low-budgeters all, were promoted as "A" features on the basis of their topicality ("John F. Kennedy" was still in the White House when "PT 109" was released), trendiness ("Batman" was the hottest TV series of 1966) and star power ("Fathom" had "Raquel Welch"; enough said). Martinson's final theatrical film was "Mrs. Pollifax: Spy" (1971), which also served as the... Full Biography
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