Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin
Born (1940-01-31) January 31, 1940
Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
Other names Salt Spring Slim
Occupation actor, director, screenwriter, songwriter, musician
Years active 1961–present
Spouse(s) Patricia (née Dunne) Martini Margolin (? - present)

Stuart Margolin (born January 31, 1940) is an American film and television actor and director. Margolin is stepfather to actor Max Martini and costume designer Michelle Martini.

Television

Margolin is best known for playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin, the shifty friend and former jailmate of Jim Rockford (James Garner) on the television show The Rockford Files. See Episodes with Angel Martin. Margolin won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor – Drama Series in this role, in 1979 and 1980;[1] he is one of only five actors to win this award twice for the same role.[2]

In 1969 Margolin wrote and co-produced The Ballad of Andy Crocker, an ABC television movie that was one of the first films to deal with the subject matter of Vietnam veterans "coming home".[3]

Margolin played Rabbi David Small in the 1976 movie, Lanigan's Rabbi, based on the series of mystery novels written by Harry Kemelman. Scheduling conflicts prevented him from continuing the role in the short-lived TV series of the same name that aired in 1977 as part of the "NBC Sunday Mystery Movie," where Small was played by Bruce Solomon. Margolin was earlier paired with James Garner in a 1971-72 TV Western series entitled Nichols, where he played a character somewhat similar to the Angel character he played in The Rockford Files. That show only lasted for one season. Margolin appeared in two episodes of the television series M*A*S*H ("Bananas, Crackers and Nuts", "Operation Noselift"), The Partridge Family ("Go Directly to Jail", "A Penny for His Thoughts), The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, an episode of Land of the Giants ("The Mechanical Man"), Twelve O'Clock High ("Mutiny at Ten Thousand Feet"), The Monkees ("Monkees Watch Their Feet"), Love, American Style (where he was a member of the Love American Style Players), The Fall Guy (where he played Ace Cochran in the Molly Sue) and Magnum, P.I. His brother Arnold Margolin was the executive producer of the Love, American Style series. In May 2009, Margolin appeared on an episode of 30 Rock, opposite Alan Alda;[4] it was the first time the two actors appeared together since M*A*S*H in 1974. Margolin appears in the 2009 CTV/CBS police drama series The Bridge.[5][6]

Film

Margolin appeared in films such as Kelly's Heroes, Death Wish, Futureworld, The Big Bus and S.O.B..

Directing

Margolin has directed TV shows since the early 1970s, including episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the 1976 western series Sara, Magnum, P.I., Bret Maverick, Quantum Leap, Wonder Woman, and Northern Exposure. He has appeared in a number of Canadian television series including some produced by Doug McLeod. He won the 1996 DGA Award for children's programming for directing the film Salt Water Moose, and he was nominated again for the same award for directing the 1998 film The Sweetest Gift. Margolin was also nominated for a DGA Award for drama series direction for a 1991 episode of Northern Exposure entitled "Goodbye to All That".[7] He also directed, co-starred and scored The Glitter Dome (1984) with James Garner, Margot Kidder and John Lithgow for HBO Pictures.[8]

Other

Margolin has written several songs for and with longtime friend and singer-songwriter Jerry Riopelle that have appeared on Riopelle's albums since 1967. Margolin was first associated with Riopelle's late 1960s band the Parade, co-writing many of their songs and playing percussion on various tracks. He and Riopelle (along with Shango member Tommy Reynolds) also co-wrote Shango's 1969 Caribbean-flavored novelty record "Day After Day (It's Slippin' Away)",[9] which hit No. 57 on the US charts and No. 39 in Canada.

Margolin also had tracks he co-wrote covered by R.B. Greaves and Gary Lewis and the Playboys in 1968/69.

Margolin's frequent songwriting partner Jerry Riopelle established a long-running solo career beginning in 1971; Riopelle released 8 albums between 1971 and 1982, every one of which contained at least one song (often more) written or co-written by Margolin. In turn, Margolin released a solo album in 1980 entitled And the Angel Sings, which featured Margolin's interpretations of a number of Margolin and/or Riopelle compositions previously recorded by Riopelle.

Since 2004, he has been a regular participant in the theatre program of the Chautauqua Institution.[10]

Margolin is often erroneously identified as the brother of actress Janet Margolin.[11][12] The two are not related.

Margolin was recently interviewed on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast.[13]

Filmography

Films

Television (acting)

References

  1. ↑ Advanced Primetime Awards Search at Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website (retrieved April 18, 2009).
  2. ↑ Tom O'Neil, "Drama supporting actors prove Emmy winners not always TV reruns", Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2010.
  3. ↑ Jeremy M. Devine, Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films about the Vietnam War (University of Texas Press, 1999), ISBN 978-0292716018, p. 57. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  4. ↑ Alan Sepinwall,"30 Rock, "Mamma Mia": Alan Alda is the Donaghy daddy?", The Star-Ledger, May 8, 2009 (retrieved May 19, 2009).
  5. ↑ "Flashpoint pipeline brings The Bridge to CBS". HitFix. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  6. ↑ Mary McNamara, "Television Review: 'The Bridge' on CBS", Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2010.
  7. ↑ "DGA Announces 1998 Nominees For Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Documentary And TV Categories Of Daytime Serials And Children's Programs", at DGA website, February 8, 1999 (retrieved January 4, 2009).
  8. ↑ Phillip Dampier (18 November 1984). "The Glitter Dome (TV Movie 1984)". IMDb. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  9. ↑ Jerry Osborne,"Prominent albums make comeback", Evansville Courier & Press, January 1, 2007 (retrieved January 7, 2009)
  10. ↑ Sharon Cantilon, "The Secret's Out: Chautauqua Institution's theater program is gaining national attention, thanks in part to actor Stuart Margolin" Buffalo News, June 22, 2008 (retrieved January 4, 2009).
  11. ↑ "Janet Margolin, Film And TV Actress, 50", New York Times, December 18, 1993.
  12. ↑ "Benjamin Margolin", New York Times, July 29, 1982.
  13. ↑ Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast


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