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Lewis Martin is a Actor American born on 31 october 1894 at San Francisco (USA)
Lewis Martin (1 November 1895, San Francisco – 21 February 1969, Los Angeles) was an American actor.
Lewis Martin made his first Broadway appearance during 1925 in the play Lucky Sam McCarver. His career at the Broadway was long and successful, he appeared in over 16 plays between 1925 and 1950. His film and television career started in 1950 with a supporting role in the Kraft Television Theatre. His first film was The Blazing Sun. He played supporting roles in films like War of the Worlds (as Pastor Collins), The Court Jester (as Sir Finsdale) and Diary of a Madman (as Father Raymonde). Martin often played respectable figures like police officers, military mens, judges or priests.
Martin also appeared in numerous television series of the 1950s and 1960s, including Judge Libbott in four episodes of Perry Mason and Professor Henderson in three episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. His last role was Commissioner West in two episodes of Tarzan in 1967.
Toujours à Broadway, s'ajoute la comédie musicale L'École des maris (adaptation de la pièce éponyme de Molière, avec Osgood Perkins et George Macready), représentée en 1933-1934.
Venu au cinéma sur le tard (à 55 ans), Lewis Martin contribue à quarante-quatre films américains (dont des westerns), les trois premiers sortis en 1950. Mentionnons Le Gouffre aux chimères de Billy Wilder (1951, avec Kirk Douglas et Jan Sterling), La Guerre des mondes de Byron Haskin (1953, avec Gene Barry et Ann Robinson), Passé perdu de Roy Rowland (1956, avec James Cagney et Barbara Stanwyck) et L'Étrange Histoire du juge Cordier de Reginald Le Borg (avec Vincent Price et Nancy Kovack), son dernier film sorti en 1963.
À la télévision enfin, excepté un téléfilm diffusé en 1959, il apparaît surtout dans soixante-dix séries dès 1949, dont La Flèche brisée (un épisode, 1957) et Perry Mason (quatre épisodes, 1960-1963).
Sa dernière série est Tarzan, avec deux épisodes diffusés en 1967.
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Nationality USA
Birth 31 october 1894 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 21 february 1969 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 31 october 1894 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 21 february 1969 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Lewis Martin made his first Broadway appearance during 1925 in the play Lucky Sam McCarver. His career at the Broadway was long and successful, he appeared in over 16 plays between 1925 and 1950. His film and television career started in 1950 with a supporting role in the Kraft Television Theatre. His first film was The Blazing Sun. He played supporting roles in films like War of the Worlds (as Pastor Collins), The Court Jester (as Sir Finsdale) and Diary of a Madman (as Father Raymonde). Martin often played respectable figures like police officers, military mens, judges or priests.
Martin also appeared in numerous television series of the 1950s and 1960s, including Judge Libbott in four episodes of Perry Mason and Professor Henderson in three episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. His last role was Commissioner West in two episodes of Tarzan in 1967.
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Démarrant sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre, il joue notamment à Broadway (New York), où il débute en 1925 dans Lucky Sam McCarver de Sidney Howard (avec John Cromwell dans le rôle-titre). Là, suivent seize autres pièces jusqu'en 1948, dont La Nuit des rois de William Shakespeare (1930, avec Joyce Carey et Walter Kingsford), Abe Lincoln in Illinois de Robert E. Sherwood (1938-1939, avec Raymond Massey dans le rôle-titre) et Jeanne de Lorraine de Maxwell Anderson (1946-1947, avec Ingrid Bergman dans le rôle-titre).Toujours à Broadway, s'ajoute la comédie musicale L'École des maris (adaptation de la pièce éponyme de Molière, avec Osgood Perkins et George Macready), représentée en 1933-1934.
Venu au cinéma sur le tard (à 55 ans), Lewis Martin contribue à quarante-quatre films américains (dont des westerns), les trois premiers sortis en 1950. Mentionnons Le Gouffre aux chimères de Billy Wilder (1951, avec Kirk Douglas et Jan Sterling), La Guerre des mondes de Byron Haskin (1953, avec Gene Barry et Ann Robinson), Passé perdu de Roy Rowland (1956, avec James Cagney et Barbara Stanwyck) et L'Étrange Histoire du juge Cordier de Reginald Le Borg (avec Vincent Price et Nancy Kovack), son dernier film sorti en 1963.
À la télévision enfin, excepté un téléfilm diffusé en 1959, il apparaît surtout dans soixante-dix séries dès 1949, dont La Flèche brisée (un épisode, 1957) et Perry Mason (quatre épisodes, 1960-1963).
Sa dernière série est Tarzan, avec deux épisodes diffusés en 1967.
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Diary of a Madman (1963)
, 1h36Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Lewis Martin, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe, Stephen Roberts
Roles Father Raymonde
Rating62%
Following the funeral of Simon Cordier (Vincent Price), a French magistrate and amateur sculptor, his secret diary is read out by Simon's pastor friend to a group of people gathered around the table, Simon's servants, and a police captain. The diary transpires that Simon has come into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible yet corporeal being, called a horla is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
A Summer Place (1959)
, 2h10Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, John Arthur Kennedy, Beulah Bondi
Roles Docteur
Rating68%
A pair of onetime teenage sweethearts and lovers, Ken (Richard Egan) and Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), come from different social strata. Ken was a self-supporting college student, working as a lifeguard at the Maine resort of Pine Island, while Sylvia's nouveau riche family stayed as guests of the owners one summer between years at college. After their love affair, they married other people. Twenty years on, Sylvia has a son, Johnny (Troy Donahue), and Ken a daughter, Molly (Sandra Dee).
Crash Landing (1958)
, 1h16Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Merrill, Irene Hervey, Roger Smith, Bek Nelson, Celia Lovsky, Lewis Martin
Roles Maurice Stanley
Rating53%
Captain Steve Williams (Gary Merrill) is piloting a commercial airliner across the Atlantic when he loses two engines in mid-ocean. With the real prospect of ditching at sea, we see his dedication and perfectionism at work, as he tries to safeguard his plane and passengers.
Slander (1957)
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie Rambeau, Richard Eyer, Harold J. Stone
Roles Charles Orrin Sterling
Rating63%
Scandal magazine editor and publisher H. R. Manley spares nobody in his efforts to sell more of his tabloid publication, "The Real Truth," making a fortune for the past two years but appalling his mother with his methods.
The Quiet Gun (1957)
, 1h17Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef, Hank Worden
Roles Steven Hardy
Rating64%
Last Stagecoach West (1957)
, 1h7Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Victor Jory, Lee Van Cleef, Willis Bouchey, Grant Withers
Roles Ben Hardy
Rating59%
Rockabilly Baby (1957)
, 1h21Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Virginia Field, Douglas Kennedy, Irene Ryan, Ellen Corby, Frank Sully, Gene Roth
Roles Mayor Howard Hoffman
Rating63%
Star in the Dust (1956)
, 1h20Directed by Charles F. Haas
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray, Leif Erickson, James Gleason
Roles Pastor Harris
Rating59%
Gunlock's town sheriff (Agar) is planning to hang Sam Hall (Boone) for shooting three farmers found on cattle land at sundown. At the casino, betting odds are 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued. Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie (Coleen Gray). Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall; a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.
These Wilder Years (1956)
, 1h31Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Tom Laughlin, Betty Lou Keim, Don Dubbins
Roles Dr. Miller
Rating67%
Businessman Steve Bradford (James Cagney) looks for his illegitimate son after 20 years. He turns to Ann Dempster (Barbara Stanwyck), who runs an orphanage, but she is uncooperative.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
, 2hDirected by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Films about families, Political films
Actors James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Truman
Roles Detective (uncredited)
Rating74%
An American family—Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna (James Stewart), his wife, popular singer Josephine Conway "Jo" McKenna (Doris Day), and their son Henry "Hank" McKenna (Christopher Olsen)--are vacationing in Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard (Daniel Gelin), who seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers and thinks that he is hiding something. Louis offers to take the McKennas out to dinner but cancels when a sinister-looking man knocks at the McKennas' hotel-room door claiming to be looking for another guest's room. Later, at a local restaurant, the McKennas meet English couple Lucy (Brenda De Banzie) and Edward Drayton (Bernard Miles), who strike up a conversation with the McKennas, who are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit at another table apparently ignoring them.
The Court Jester (1955)
, 1h41Directed by Norman Panama, Bernard McEveety, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick
Roles Lord Finsdale, adviser to Roderick
Rating77%
Set in medieval England, the plot concerns the struggle to restore to the throne the rightful heir, a baby with a distinguishing birthmark, the purple pimpernel on his posterior. Danny Kaye plays Hubert Hawkins, an ex-carnival entertainer who becomes minstrel to the Black Fox, a Robin Hood-type character who leads a band of rebels in the forest in support of the true infant-king.
The Seven Little Foys (1955)
, 1h33Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bob Hope, James Cagney, Eddie Foy, Jr., Milly Vitale, George Tobias, Angela Clarke
Roles Pasteur
Rating66%
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy (Bob Hope), who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine (Milly Vitale). While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven children. After the tragedy of the Iroquois Theater Fire threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his children are worth their weight in gold. The second eldest Foy, Charley, narrates the film.
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
, 1h19Directed by Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin, Frank Lovejoy, Louis Calhern
Roles Comdr. Michael Coughlin
Rating61%
On board the USS Oriskany aircraft carrier in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War, author James A. Michener (Louis Calhern) meets Commander and flight surgeon Kent Dowling (Walter Pidgeon). Dowling relates a "Christmas story" of a near-miracle.
Knock on Wood (1954)
, 1h43Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin, Abner Biberman
Roles Inspector Cranford
Rating66%
Jerry Morgan (Kaye) is a ventriloquist who is having trouble with love: just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his dummy turns jealous and spoils everything. Jerry's manager Marty threatens to quit unless Jerry sees a psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom (Zetterling), who tries to discover the source of his problem. The two of them eventually fall in love.
Witness to Murder (1954)
, 1h23Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White, Harry Shannon, Claire Carleton
Roles Psychiatrist
Rating65%
Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck), while looking out her bedroom window, witnesses a young woman being strangled to death. The woman reports the killing to the police, but when the man named Albert Richter (George Sanders) notices detectives arriving downstairs, he moves the body. When the police show up to his door, Richter acts nonchalant, and when no body is found, the police are convinced that the woman saw something in her dreams.