Posted on 09/07/2015 11:19:47 AM PDT by windcliff
Martin Milner, the veteran actor best known for starring in the popular TV dramas Adam-12 and Route 66, has died. He was 83. The Los Angeles Police Department’s communications office confirmed his death in an Instagram post referring to his Adam-12 character that reads, “Pete Malloy, you are end of watch”:
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RIP Mr. Milner, thanks for everything!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhVjJGvluQ
RIP/ Always enjoyed Rt 66. I was in a crowd scene on one episode, down in the Cleveland train station under Higbee’s.
I thought he was cute as a teenager in “Life With Father”, which I still have on VHS.
Marty Milner and Kent McCord. Great TV. RIP.
Yep, I grew up in the SF Valley where most of Adam 12 was filmed.
Still love to see them in the street scenes passing by areas I grew up in.
Especially like when they would have lunch at Henry's Tacos on the corner of Tujunga and Moorpark with the menu hanging on the wall behind them.
15 cents for a Taco, burrito coke etc.
Or when they would pass by gas stations with gas prices of 43 cents a gallon.....sigh..
He was a close friend of David Janssen.
Luckily he joined the force after Dr. Kimble was cleared, so never had to arrest him.
Me too. A friend of mine wrote most of the scripts for that show. Every few years he gets a royalty check for about $40, so someone must be showing it somewhere.
I had a (late) buddy who was in a crowd scene in a “Route 66” episode filmed in Austin. He was real excited when I was able to lend him a videotape of the episode, in which he spotted himself.
He said Milner was very nice and friendly to everybody, meeting and signing pictures and taking photos with people. Maharis kept to himself, stayed in his trailer. The producer, Herbert Leonard, who ‘found’ Maharis and intended to make him a star, was pretty miffed when he later learned Maharis was a tempermental homo, eventually leading to his exit and replacement by Glenn Corbett.
What was so great about the series, is how it filmed all across the country, always trying to capture the individual cultural niches of the various locales.
RIP Mr. Milner and ride high on that Route 66 in the sky!
Truly enjoyed his portrayals. RIP.
Wow now even the 60’s stars are now passing away.
RIP Martin
He was also a great sport fisherman and loved to interest others in it.
In an old "Jimmy Fidler in Hollywood" report they said he got stopped for DWI in L.A. Neither cop wanted to be he one to arrest Jack Webb, so they drove him home.
Was just watching that episode last night! His part was short but sweet. Jack Cassidy could really play a bad guy too. He just had that smirk.
According to the IMDB, Maharis is still very much alive. He’s long since retired, his last role being in 1993, but still around.
RIP, Martin!!
I do remember him from Route 66, but I also remember him from a horror flick called “Thirteen Ghosts”, a cheesy late 50s or early 60s movie. I was very young and was pretty scared by it-the only person I remember in the movie was Martin Milner.
He was in so many different shows, as a guest, and was always good.
What an awful job that dispatcher had, on-duty 24/7 and all...
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