![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: December 28, 1931 in Detroit, MI Biography:Red-headed, freckle-faced "Martin Milner" was only 15 when he made his screen debut in Life With Father (1947), and would continue to play wide-eyed high schoolers and college kids well into the next decade. His early film assignments included the teenaged Marine recruit in "Lewis Milestone"'s "The Halls of Montezuma" (1951) and the obnoxious suitor of "Jeanne Crain" in "Belles on Their Toes" (1952). His first regular TV series was "The Stu Erwin Show" (1950-1955), in which he played the boyfriend (and later husband) of Stu's daughter Joyce. More mature roles came his way in "Marjorie Morningstar" (1957) as "Natalie Wood"'s playwright sweetheart and in "The Sweet Smell of Success" (1957) as the jazz musician targeted for persecution by Winchell-esque columnist "Burt Lancaster". Beginning in 1960, he enjoyed a four-year run as Corvette-driving Tod Stiles on TV's "Route 66" (a statue of Milner and his... Full Biography
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