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Barney Martin
Age: 82 (passed away Mar. 21st, 2005)
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Birth Place: Queens, New York, USA
Born: Mar. 3rd, 1923
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Barney Martin's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: [no bio found]
TRIVIA:
- Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch)
- Was on leave from the NYPD in the fall of 1957 when he appeared as challenger Jack Bothwell #2 on TV's "To Tell The Truth." He was also the associate producer of "Treasure Hunt", a TV show starring Jan Murray, at this time.
- Wrote for the _"Name That Tune" (1953)_ (qv) game show and for _"The Steve Allen Show" (1956)_ (qv) in the 1950s.
- Once served as a stand-in for the equally hefty 'Jackie Gleason (I)' (qv).
- Appeared in a 1970's television commercial for Post Raisin Bran.
- Discovered for films by 'Mel Brooks' (qv), who cast him in _The Producers (1968)_ (qv).
- Got into the comic angle of show business as a cop while adding jokes to various speeches he made for deputy commissioners.
- The father of a son and a daughter. His daughter died of cancer in 2002.
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