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Steve Martin

Birth name: Stephen Glenn Martin

Birth date: 14.08.1945

Actor, comedian, writer, playwright and producer. Steve Martin was born August 14, 1945, in Waco, Texas, the son of a real estate executive. When he was five, Martin and his family moved from Waco to Inglewood, California, and then to Garden Grove, California, when he was 10. As a teenager, he sold guidebooks and performed magic tricks at Disneyland and at Knotts Berry Farm. He enrolled in Long Beach State College to study philosophy, but soon transferred to the theater program at the University of California, Los Angeles. He left college altogether to be a comedy writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-68), winning an Emmy Award in 1969. Martin performed stand-up comedy in local clubs, wrote for the Sonny and Cher Show (1972-73), and had the first of his many appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Martin's big break came when he was guest host on NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1977. His offbeat and irreverent humor made him an instant celebrity. Martin released four comedy albums between 1977 and 1981, winning Grammy awards for Let's Get Small and A Wild and Crazy Guy. He also received a gold record for his hit comedy song, "King Tut." Martin wrote his first book Cruel Shoes, in 1977. Steve Martin's first feature, a short film he wrote called The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977), was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1979, he starred in his first full-length feature film, The Jerk, the first of many collaborations between Martin and director Carl Reiner, including the lampoon of detective thrillers, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), the sci-fi comedy The Man With Two Brains (1983), and the identity-swapping comedy All of Me (1984) with Lily Tomlin. Martin received Best Actor awards from both the New York Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review for his performance in All of Me. He also won rave reviews for his portrayal of a demented dentist in Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors (1986). In 1987, Martin stretched his talent even further by co-writing, executive-producing, and starring in Roxanne (1987), a modern interpretation of the story of Cyrano De Bergerac. For his work in Roxanne he won a Best Actor award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as well as an award for Best Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. In 1991, Martin wrote, starred in and co-executive produced L.A. Story co-starring actress Victoria Tennant, whom he later married, in 1986 (they later divorced in 1994). Martin also starred in the Disney remake of Father of the Bride (1992), and it's sequel in 1995. In 1993, Martin had success as a playwright with Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which opened at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, moving to Boston and Los Angeles as well as running off-Broadway. More recent work included David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner (1997), a voice role in the animated Dreamworks film The Prince of Egypt (1998) and a co-starring role with Goldie Hawn in a remake of The Out of Towners (1999). Martin wrote and starred in the comedy Bowfinger with Eddie Murphy in 1999. In 2001, he starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the dark comedy Novocaine. That same year, he took on a new challenge, hosting the notoriously long Academy Awards ceremony. His trademark humor and antics earned him an invitation to return in 2003. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine, Martin published Shopgirl, a novella, to great acclaim in 2001. The story of a disenchanted saleswoman struggling to choose between a would-be musician and a wealthy married man, the book was adapted to film in 2005 starring Martin and Claire Danes. In 2001, Martin starred opposite Queen Latifah in the romantic comedy Bringing Down the House, which debuted at a surprising No. 1 at the box offfice. In 2004, Martin costarred with Bonnie Hunt to reprise the 1950s comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. He is set to take on two more remakes: the 1937 Cary Grant vehicle Topper and a Pink Panther adaptation. On July 28, 2007, Steve Martin married Anne Stringfield (born 1973). Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live was his best man. An avid art collector, Martin is a trustee of the Los Angeles Museum of Art and owns works by O'Keeffe, Diebenkorn, de Kooning, Frankenthaler, Hopper, Hockney, Lichtenstein, and Picasso, among others. He was honored with the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in December 2007.

Filmography

# From Zero to Sixty (2009) # The Pink Panther movie download page 2 movie download page (2009) # Traitor movie download page (2008) (story) # The Pink Panther movie download page (2006) # Shopgirl movie download page (2005) (novel "Shopgirl movie download page") # The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003) (TV) (special material written by) # "The Downer Channel" (2 episodes, 2001) - Episode #1.2 (2001) TV episode (writer) - Pilot (2001) TV episode (writer) # Morto the Magician (2001) (writer) # Bowfinger (1999) (written by) # Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin (1998) (TV) (uncredited) # A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) (written by) ... aka Twist of Fate (Australia: TV title) # L.A. Story (1991) (written by) # Roxanne (1987) (screenplay) # "Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills" (1986) TV series (creator) (1986) # ¡Three Amigos! (1986) (written by) # Steve Martin Live (1986) (V) (writer) # "George Burns Comedy Week" (1 episode, 1985) - Home for Dinner (1985) TV episode (story) # The Jerk movie download page, Too (1984) (TV) (character) # The Man with Two Brains (1983) (written by) # The Winds of Whoopie (1983) (TV) (writer) ... aka Steve Martin's The Winds of Whoopie (USA: complete title) # Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (written by) ... aka Dead Men Wear No Plaid # Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981) (TV) (writer) # All Commercials... A Steve Martin Special (1980) (TV) (writer) # Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty (1980) (TV) (writer) # The Jerk movie download page (1979) (screenplay) (story) # Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) (TV) (writer) # Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977) (TV) (writer) # The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977) (writer) # On Location: Steve Martin (1976) (TV) (writer) # "The Sonny and Cher Show" (1976) TV series (unknown episodes) # Rocky Mountain Christmas (1975) (TV) (writer) ... aka John Denver's Rocky Mountain Christmas (USA: complete title) # Van Dyke and Company (1975) (TV) (writer) # The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada (1974) (TV) (writer) # "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" (37 episodes, 1971-1973) - Episode #3.24 (1973) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.23 (1973) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.22 (1973) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.21 (1973) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.20 (1973) TV episode (writer) (32 more) # "The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show" (4 episodes, 1972) ... aka "Ken Berry's Wow" - Episode dated 12 August 1972 (1972) TV episode (writer) - Episode dated 5 August 1972 (1972) TV episode (writer) - Episode dated 15 July 1972 (1972) TV episode (writer) - Episode dated 21 March 1972 (1972) TV episode (writer) # "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" (21 episodes, 1969-1972) - Episode #4.14 (1972) TV episode (writer) - Episode #4.12 (1971) TV episode (writer) - Episode #4.8 (1971) TV episode (writer) - Episode #4.4 (1971) TV episode (writer) - Episode #4.1 (1971) TV episode (writer) (16 more) # "Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour" (5 episodes, 1970) - Episode dated 2 April 1970 (1970) TV episode (writer) - Episode dated 19 March 1970 (1970) TV episode (writer) - Episode dated 12 March 1970 (1970) TV episode (writer) - Episode dated 26 February 1970 (1970) TV episode (writer) - Episode dated 22 January 1970 (1970) TV episode (writer) # "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (71 episodes, 1967-1969) - Episode #3.25 (1969) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.24 (1969) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.23 (1969) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.20 (1969) TV episode (writer) - Episode #3.22 (1969) TV episode (writer) (66 more) # "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show" (2 episodes, 1968) - Episode #1.6 (1968) TV episode (writer) - Episode #1.2 (1968) TV episode (writer)