Acting

John McMartin

Born August 21, 1929 · Warsaw, Indiana, USA

Died July 6, 2016 · aged 86

John McMartin (August 21, 1929 – July 6, 2016) was an American stage, film and television actor. Born in Warsaw, Indiana, he was known for his extensive Broadway career and received five Tony Award nominations. His film credits include Sweet Charity (1969), All the President's Men (1976), Brubaker (1980) and Brian De Palma's Blow Out (1981), in which he played Lawrence Henry. He also appeared in …

Known For

Who's That Girl

Who's That Girl · 1987

Who's That Girl

MovieComedyRomance

An uptight New York City tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down one day when he's asked to escort a feisty free-spirited ex-convict who asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.

All the President's Men

All the President's Men · 1976

All the President's Men

MovieDramaMystery

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

No Reservations

No Reservations · 2007

No Reservations

MovieComedyRomance

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.

Blow Out

Blow Out · 1981

MovieCrimeMystery

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

A Shock to the System

A Shock to the System · 1990

A Shock to the System

MovieCrimeComedy

When experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a path of vengeance.

Kinsey

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

Brubaker

Brubaker · 1980

MovieCrimeDrama

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Thieves

Thieves · 1977

Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite their differences, a decision that's cemented, oddly enough, by an over-the-top argument that draws the police.

Filmography

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Who's That Girl

Who's That Girl · 1987

Who's That Girl

MovieComedyRomance

An uptight New York City tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down one day when he's asked to escort a feisty free-spirited ex-convict who asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.

Simon Worthington

All the President's Men

All the President's Men · 1976

All the President's Men

MovieDramaMystery

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

Foreign Editor

No Reservations

No Reservations · 2007

No Reservations

MovieComedyRomance

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.

Mr. Peterson

Blow Out

Blow Out · 1981

MovieCrimeMystery

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Lawrence Henry

A Shock to the System

A Shock to the System · 1990

A Shock to the System

MovieCrimeComedy

When experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a path of vengeance.

George Brewster

Kinsey

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

Huntington Hartford

Brubaker

Brubaker · 1980

MovieCrimeDrama

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Senator Hite

Thieves

Thieves · 1977

Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite their differences, a decision that's cemented, oddly enough, by an over-the-top argument that draws the police.

Gordon

Legal Eagles

Legal Eagles · 1986

MovieComedyCrime

Assistant District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.

Forrester

Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity · 1969

MovieComedyRomance

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.

Oscar

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven · 1981

Pennies from Heaven

MovieDramaMusic

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

Mr. Warner

Roots: The Gift

Roots: The Gift · 1988

Roots: The Gift

MovieDramaHistory

On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.

Edmund Parker, Sr.

The Dish

The Dish · 2000

MovieComedyDrama

A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.

U.S. Ambassador Howard

Separate but Equal

Separate but Equal · 1991

Separate but Equal

MovieHistoryTV Movie

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

Governor James F. Byrnes

Native Son

Native Son · 1986

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Mr. Dalton

A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns · 1965

A Thousand Clowns

MovieComedyDrama

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.

The Man in the Office

Dream Lover

Dream Lover · 1986

MovieHorrorCrime

After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results.

Martin

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? · 1968

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.

The Mayor

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards · 2005

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

MovieMusicDocumentary

Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.

Narrator (segment "Into the Woods") (archive footage)

Poison Candy

Poison Candy · 1989

A criminal couple, hiding out on a remote property, become the unwitting victims of a blackmail plot by the most unlikely of conspirators.

Uncle David

Day One

Day One · 1989

MovieHistoryDrama

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

Dr. Arthur Compton

Ritual of Evil

Ritual of Evil · 1970

MovieDramaHorror

A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.

Edward Bolander

Citizen Cohn

Citizen Cohn · 1992

MovieDramaTV Movie

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.

Older Doctor

The Last Ninja

The Last Ninja · 1983

MovieTV MovieAction

A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation.

Mr. Cosmo

Law & Order

Law & Order · 1990

SeriesCrimeDrama

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Defense Attorney Larry Webber

Frasier

Frasier · 1993

SeriesComedyFamily

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.

Fletcher Grey

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote · 1984

Murder, She Wrote

SeriesMysteryCrime

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Hudson Blackthorn

Great Performances

Great Performances · 1971

Great Performances

SeriesComedyDocumentary

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Leone Gala

Cheers

The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

Dr. Lawrence Crandell

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. · 1980

SeriesCrimeDrama

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

Bill Campbell

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest · 1981

SeriesSoapDrama

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

Julian J. Roberts

The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files · 1974

The Rockford Files

SeriesCrimeDrama

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

Timson Farrell

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O · 1969

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

Ron Nicholson

Love, American Style

Love, American Style · 1969

Love, American Style

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Peter

Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel · 1994

Touched by an Angel

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

Earl Gray

Coach

Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.

Judge Watkins

American Playhouse

American Playhouse · 1982

American Playhouse

SeriesDramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Paul Melton

The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls · 1985

The Golden Girls

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.

Frank Leahy

SeriesCrimeDrama

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Lars Nathan

Hart to Hart

Hart to Hart · 1979

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

Spin City

Spin City · 1996

SeriesComedyDrama

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.

Senator Joseph Grady

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt · 2015

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn't think even existed anymore.

Grant

Cannon

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D. · 1969

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.

John Ambrose

The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show · 1972

The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience.

Reverend Daniel Bradford

The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family · 1970

The Partridge Family

SeriesComedyFamily

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career.

Larry Metcalfe

Harry O

Harry O · 1974

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

Judd, for the Defense

Judd, for the Defense · 1967

Judd, for the Defense

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.