Editing Martin Milner (section)

==Career==
Milner attended the [[University of Southern California]] where he studied theater.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AbtaAAAAIBAJ&pg=3623,3264688|title=The Players of Adam-12|date=October 18, 1972|work=[[The Daily Courier (Arizona)|The Daily Courier]]|publisher=[[Western Newspapers]]|location=[[Prescott, Arizona]]|access-date=February 18, 2013}}</ref> He dropped out after a year in the fall of 1950 to concentrate on acting.<ref name="lewiston">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ArsgAAAAIBAJ&pg=3518,1349911|title=Milner Grew Up In the Business|date=November 10, 1960|work=Lewiston Evening Journal|publisher=Sun Media Group|location=[[Lewiston, Maine]]|pages=7–A|access-date=February 18, 2013}}</ref> He made his first television appearance in 1950 as a guest star in episode 28, "Pay Dirt", of ''[[The Lone Ranger (TV series)|The Lone Ranger]]''. The same year, he began a recurring role as Drexel Potter on the sitcom ''[[The Stu Erwin Show]]''.

He had several more roles, both minor and major, in war films in the 1950s, including another John Wayne picture titled ''[[Operation Pacific]]'' (1951) and ''[[Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts]]'' (1955), with [[William Powell]] and [[Henry Fonda]], [[James Cagney]] and [[Jack Lemmon]]. On the set of ''[[Halls of Montezuma (film)|Halls of Montezuma]]'' (1950), he met and befriended actor [[Jack Webb]], and he began intermittent work on Webb's radio series ''[[Dragnet (franchise)|Dragnet]]''.<ref name="Dagan">{{cite news|first=Carmel|last= Dagan|url= https://variety.com/2015/film/news/martin-milner-dead-adam-12-route-66-1201587461/|title= Martin Milner, Star of 'Adam-12,' 'Route 66,' Dies at 83|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|location=[[Los Angeles]]|date=September 7, 2015|access-date=September 8, 2015}}</ref>

In 1952, Milner began a two-year stint in the United States Army. Assigned to [[Special Services (entertainment)|Special Services]] at [[Fort Ord]] on California's Monterey Bay Peninsula, he directed [[training film]]s<ref name="THR"/><ref name="LAT">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-martin-milner-20150908-story.html|title=Martin Milner dies at 83; 'Adam-12' and 'Route 66' star|first=Dennis|last=McLellan|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|location=[[Los Angeles]]|date=September 7, 2015|access-date=June 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XaZMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6741,85691|title=Martin. Milner also starred in Gidget with Sally Field and Don Porter, as the 'Big Kahuna' in an early episode by the same name. Milner|date=September 20, 1970|work=[[The Daily Courier (Arizona)|The Daily Courier]]|publisher=[[Western Newspapers]]|location=[[Prescott, Arizona]]|access-date=February 18, 2013}}</ref> and was both an M.C. and performer in skits for a touring unit created to entertain soldiers.<ref name="lewiston" /> Milner was encouraged by fellow soldier and future actor [[David Janssen]] to pursue an acting career when his time in the Army ended. Janssen and Milner served at Fort Ord with fellow future actors [[Clint Eastwood]] and [[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.military.com/education/gi-bill/clint-eastwood-used-gi-bill.html|title=Clint Eastwood Used the GI Bill|author=<!--Not stated-->|work=[[Military.com]]|publisher=[[Monster.com|Monster Worldwide]]|location=United States|access-date=June 8, 2017}}</ref> While in the Army, Milner continued working for [[Jack Webb]], playing Officer Bill Lockwood (briefly the partner of Sgt. Friday) and other characters on the ''[[Dragnet (franchise)#1949 radio series|Dragnet]]'' radio series on weekends. He also appeared on six episodes of Webb's ''[[Dragnet (franchise)#1951 television series|Dragnet]]'' television series between 1952 and 1955.<ref name="LAT"/>

After his military service ended, Milner had a recurring role on ''[[The Life of Riley]]'' from 1953 to 1958. He also made guest appearances on numerous television shows, including episodes of ''[[The Bigelow Theatre]]'', ''[[The Great Gildersleeve#Television|The Great Gildersleeve]]'', ''[[TV Reader's Digest]]'', ''[[Science Fiction Theatre]]'', ''[[Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse]]'', ''[[NBC Matinee Theater]]'', ''[[The West Point Story (TV series)|The West Point Story]]'', ''[[12 O'Clock High (TV series)|12 O'Clock High]]'' (Season 3, Episode 13, "Six Feet Under"), ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' (episode: "Mirror Image"), ''[[Wagon Train]]'' and ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''.

Milner was under contract at Hecht-Lancaster, [[Burt Lancaster]]'s production company.<ref name="THR"/> He also acted in films, including ''[[The Long Gray Line]]'' (1955), ''[[Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts]]'' (1955), ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (1957), ''[[Sweet Smell of Success]]'' (1957), ''[[Marjorie Morningstar (film)|Marjorie Morningstar]]'' (1958), where he was able to draw on his Jewish roots playing the role of Wally Wronkin, ''[[Compulsion (1959 film)|Compulsion]]'' (1959), and ''[[13 Ghosts]]'' (1960). He later costarred in ''[[Valley of the Dolls (film)|Valley of the Dolls]]'' (1967), based on the best-selling novel by [[Jacqueline Susann]].<ref name="LAT"/><ref name="Dagan"/>

===''Route 66''===
[[File:Martin Milner George Maharis Route 66 sign.jpg|thumb|Milner ''(left)'' and [[George Maharis]] in ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' publicity still, 1962]]
In 1960, Milner was cast as [[Tod Stiles]] on the television series ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'', which ran from 1960 to 1964. Created by [[Stirling Silliphant]], ''Route 66'' is about two regular but distinctly different young men in a car touring the United States. After the sudden death of his father left him penniless, save for a new Chevrolet Corvette, Milner's character travels across the United States in the Corvette, taking a variety of odd jobs along the way and getting involved in other people's problems. His traveling partner on his escapades is his friend Buz Murdock (played by [[George Maharis]]), a former employee of his father's. During the series' third season, [[Glenn Corbett]] replaced Maharis, who claimed he was ill with hepatitis but later verified he wanted to break away to pursue other career opportunities.<ref name="THR"/><ref name="LAT"/><ref name="Dagan"/> The show never regained its audience appeal with Corbett and was cancelled after a year.

''Route 66'' was shot on location, so Milner spent nearly four years traveling the US for the series, sometimes taking his wife and children along.<ref name="LAT"/>

Milner appeared on Broadway once in the short-lived comedy ''The Ninety Day Mistress'' in 1967.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/arts/television/martin-milner-dies-at-83-actor-made-his-name-on-route-66.html|title=Martin Milner, Clean-Cut Star of 'Route 66' and 'Adam-12,' Dies at 83|first=Anita|last=Gates|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 7, 2015|access-date=June 8, 2017}}</ref>

===''Adam-12''===
By the mid-1960s, Milner and Jack Webb had a long-established working relationship. Milner had appeared in numerous episodes of both the radio and television versions of the series ''Dragnet'', and had worked with Webb in the films ''[[Halls of Montezuma (film)|Halls of Montezuma]]'' (1950) and ''[[Pete Kelly's Blues (film)|Pete Kelly's Blues]]'' (1955).<ref>{{cite book |author1=Daniel Moyer |author2=Eugene Alvarez |title=Just the Facts, Ma'am: The Authorized Biography of Jack Webb |date=2001 |publisher=Seven Locks Press |isbn=9780929765297 |page=110}}</ref>

In 1968, Milner returned to television as seven-year [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] veteran uniform patrol Officer Pete Malloy in ''[[Adam-12]]'', a Webb-produced police drama. [[Kent McCord]] played his partner, rookie Officer Jim Reed. The series ran from 1968 to 1975. Like Webb's ''Dragnet'', it was based on real Los Angeles Police Department procedures and cases.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Ronald Wayne Rodman |title=Tuning In: American Narrative Television Music |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195340242 |page=242}}</ref>

Milner was Webb's choice for Malloy in part because of his relative youth and prior acting credits and because of his on-camera driving experience from his days on ''Route 66''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Prime-time hits: television's most popular network program| first=Susan|last=Sackett|year=1993|publisher=[[Billboard Books]]|isbn=978-0823083923}}</ref> He guest-starred in three episodes of ''[[Emergency!]]'' between 1972 and 1976, during and after ''Adam-12''{{'}}s run on NBC, the first of which, and the best known, was the pilot movie ''[[The Wedsworth-Townsend Act]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Richard Yokley |author2=Rozane Sutherland |title=Emergency! Behind the Scene |date=May 2007 |publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers |isbn=9780763748968 |page=46}}</ref>

===Later career===
[[File:Martin Milner 1975.JPG|thumb|Milner in ''The Swiss Family Robinson'' in 1975]]
In 1971, Milner portrayed the murder victim in the premiere episode of ''[[Columbo]]'' titled "Murder by the Book". After ''Adam-12'', Milner starred as Karl Robinson in a television series version of ''[[The Swiss Family Robinson (1975 TV series)|The Swiss Family Robinson]]'' (1975–1976), produced by [[Irwin Allen]].<ref name="NYT"/> Most of his later work was as a guest star, including ''[[MacGyver (1985 TV series)|MacGyver]]'' (as the protagonist's father); ''[[Airwolf]]''; ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''; and ''[[RoboCop: The Series]]''. In 1983, Milner hosted a morning radio wake-up show on AM 600 [[KOGO (AM)|KOGO]] in San Diego.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gates |first=Anita |date=2015-09-07 |title=Martin Milner, Clean-Cut Star of ‘Route 66’ and ‘Adam-12,’ Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/arts/television/martin-milner-dies-at-83-actor-made-his-name-on-route-66.html |access-date=2025-01-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=jesswaid |date=2015-11-19 |title=Martin Milner |url=https://jesswaid.com/2015/11/19/martin-milner/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=Jess Waid |language=en}}</ref>

In 1990, Milner teamed again with Kent McCord in the cable TV-movie ''Nashville Beat'' (1990), on [[The Nashville Network]]. The story was co-written by McCord, who played an LAPD detective who works with his former partner, played by Milner, in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1992, Milner guest-starred on five episodes of ABC's ''[[Life Goes On (TV series)|Life Goes On]]''.

After retiring from acting, Milner co-hosted a radio show about fishing called ''Let's Talk Hook-Up'' on San Diego-area sports station [[XEWW-AM|XETRA]] AM 690 (now XEWW).<ref name="LAT"/>

In 1998, Milner took part in a documentary film, ''Route 66: Return to the Road with Martin Milner'', in which he drove a 1961 Corvette from Chicago to Santa Monica.<ref name="NYT"/>