Born in Detroit, he spent his early years in San Francisco and Seattle, where his mother enrolled him in a children's theater group at ten. Four years later, Mr. Milner's job took the family to Hollywood, and Marty began serious training. His parents found him an agent and he made his movie debut as one of the sons in "Life With Father." Shortly thereafter he was taken out of action by an attack of polio, but when he got back on his feet he made pictures while he went to North Hollwyood High and put in a year at USC. By 1952, when he went into the Army for his two-year hitch, he had made seventeen motion pictures.
While he was in the service, he directed twenty training films; emceed a touring-show unit; and was sprung from duty for six weeks to take part in "The Long Grey Line." Other movies, including such biggies as "Sweet Smell of Success," "Gunfight at the Okay (sic) Corral," and "Too Much Too Soon" followed his discharge, along with some 150 appearances on television. And last season he appeared regularly on the successful "Route 66," seen again this season on CBS-TV Fridays at 8:30 ET.
It was at a dinner party in 1956 that he met TV actress Judy Johnson (sic) and six months later, on February, 1957, they were married at the home of the bride's parents in Waukeegan, Ill. Marty's dad had died in 1951 and his jewelry-designer stepfather, Cini, designed Judy's engagement and wedding rings.
After the arrival of Amy on July 2, 1958, and her baby sister last January, a bigger house seemed in the cards, and the antiques which Marty picks up on his travels are being shipped home to furnish it. In his bachelor days an independent type who could spend long hours alone over a book or the daily paper, Marty is now a big advocate of togetherness, and can scarcely wait until he and his family can once more be united.
Meanwhile he occupies himself with baseball and whatever exercise is available, reads the local papers, shakes hands, signs autographs--and is one of the phone company's best customers.