Steve Martin

  • Name: Steve Martin
  • Date of Birth: August 14, 1945
  • Place of Birth: Waco, Texas, USA
Mini-bio: As a teenager, Martin started out working at the Magic Shop at Disneyland, where he developed his talents for magic, juggling, playing the banjo and creating balloon animals. He teamed up with friend ...( read more)and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to do a musical comedy routine, performing at local coffee houses and at the Bird Cage Theater in Knott's Berry Farm. Martin attended Santa Ana College at the same time as actress Diane Keaton.

In the mid-1970s, he made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. That exposure, together with appearances on HBO's On Location and NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL) (on which, despite a common misconception, he was never a cast member) led to his first of four comedy albums, Let's Get Small. The album was a huge success; one of its tracks, Excuse Me, helped establish a national catch phrase.

Martin's first film was a short, The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). The seven-minute long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. His first feature film appearance was in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where 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. The movie was a huge success, grossing over $73 million on a budget of far less than that amount. Since then, Martin's film career could best be described as uneven. Though he has enjoyed a successful film career for longer than most other comic actors, his oeuvre has not been consistently well received by critics.
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You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

VITAL STATS

Eye color: Brown
Height: 6' 0"
Nickname(s):Pig Eye Jackson
Notable feature(s): White Hair
Education:High School- Garden Grove High School
College- Long Beach City College
Family: Glenn Vernon Martin (Father)
Mary Lee Martin (Mother)
Melinda (Sister)
Anne Springfield (Wife)
Resides in: Los Angeles, CA
Religious affiliations: Baptist
Personal interests/hobbies:He plays banjo/guitar/sings.

An avid art collector whose personal collections included the works of Pablo Picasso, Helen Frankenthaler, Georgia O'Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, and many more.
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Other: Fell into depression for a couple of months when his good friend John Candy died

Was Warner Bros. second choice for the role of The Riddler in Batman Forever(1995) (after Robin Williams ). However he turned it down as with the death of his good friend John Candyand his divorce from Victoria Tennant he was too sad to make any movies.



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  • andyfasterkill
    andyfasterkill
    Um, did anybody else know that Steve Martin has a band?!?!?

    http://www.sfweekly.com/slideshow/view/28522740/31
    posted 124 days ago
  • TIGGERNO1
    TIGGERNO1
    Steve Martin, you are soooooo funny!!!!
    posted 259 days ago
  • dragon02061952
    dragon02061952
    Duane Chase
    posted 321 days ago
  • marcvalerie
    marcvalerie
    STEVE MARTIN, finally I have the opportunity to speak to you; I am one of your fans I am Cameroonian and I have the luck(chance) today thanks to flxister to be able to write you, I just want to let you know that on both sides in the world you have fans and I make parties. I it is Valerie and I shall be delighted if you re-laid me. With all the respect which I owe you. Thank you still Flixster
    posted 342 days ago
  • davidcirce
    davidcirce
    I love Steve martin he just makes me laugh and my all time favorite movie he was in was "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"
    Him in drag makes me laugh a lot! You go Steve and never stop! David.
    posted 484 days ago
  • celfoycastillo
    celfoycastillo
    Steve:
    Have a strange but fun day!Webfetti.com

    posted 543 days ago
  • Krista12345666
    Krista12345666
    LOve him he is soooo funny
    posted 549 days ago
  • ervind58
    ervind58
    vote for Planes Trains and Automoblies for the watch now movies
    posted 561 days ago
  • roselean91
    roselean91
    Your a really funny guy. I love most of the movies your in. Like the cheeper by the Dozen movies and more. Mostly the cheeper by the doezen. You make me laugh.
    posted 572 days ago
  • Spaza000
    Spaza000
    you rock dude!!! ;D
    posted 572 days ago
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