Dewey Martin (actor)
| Dewey Martin | |
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Dewey Martin c. 1950s
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| Born |
December 8, 1923 Katemcy, Texas, United States |
| Occupation | Film and television actor |
| Years active | 1948–1978 |
| Spouse(s) |
Peggy Lee (married 1956–1958; divorced) |
| Relatives | Ross Bass (first cousin) |
Dewey Martin (born December 8, 1923) is a retired American film and television actor.
Martin was born in Katemcy, Texas. For a time as a teenager, he lived in Florence, Alabama.
Martin joined the U.S. Navy in 1940 and served as a Grumman F6F Hellcat pilot in the Pacific Theater of the war. He was shot down in 1945 and was held as a prisoner of war until Japan's surrender.
His film debut was an uncredited part in Knock on Any Door (1949). He also appeared in The Thing from Another World (1951), co-starred with Kirk Douglas in The Big Sky (1952), played the younger brother of Humphrey Bogart's character in The Desperate Hours played a lead role in "Land of the Pharaohs" (1955), and was featured opposite Dean Martin in his first post-Martin and Lewis film – the notorious flop Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) – but did not become a full-fledged star.
Martin worked extensively in television as well, including The Twilight Zone episode "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" (1960) and The Outer Limits episode "The Premonition" (1965), co-written by Ib Melchior. Starting in 1960, he played Daniel Boone on four episodes of Walt Disney Presents.
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