Quinn Martin
| Quinn Martin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Irwin Martin Cohn May 22, 1922 New York City |
| Died | September 5, 1987 (aged 65) Rancho Santa Fe, California |
| Occupation | Television producer |
| Spouse(s) | Madelyn Pugh (a.k.a. Madelyn Davis); Marianne Muffet Webb |
| Children | Michael (with Pugh); Jill, Cliff (with Webb) |
Quinn Martin (May 22, 1922 – September 5, 1987) was an American television producer. He had at least one television series running in prime time every year for 21 straight years (from 1959 to 1980), an industry record. Martin is a member of the Television Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1997.
He was born on May 22, 1922 in New York City as Irwin Martin Cohn, the second of two children. His father Martin Goodman Cohn was a film editor and producer at MGM; his mother was Anna Messing Cohn. From age four he was raised in Los Angeles. He graduated from Fairfax High School. He served five years in the United States Army during World War II, enlisting in the Signal Corps at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, California on September 10, 1940. He achieved the rank of sergeant. He changed his name to Quinn Martin (the Quinn came from the pronunciation his friends gave of Cohn, as "Co-Inn").
While attending the University of California, Berkeley, Martin majored in English, but did not graduate. Martin started his career in television as a film editor at MGM and also worked as manager of post production for various organizations, including Universal Studios (1950–1954), but by the mid-1950s had become an executive producer for Desilu Studios. His first wife, Madelyn Pugh Davis, was one half of the writing team behind Desilu's classic I Love Lucy. In 1959 he produced for Desilu Productions a two part special that appeared in season 1 of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse that became a weekly television show: The Untouchables, which would go on to win Emmy Awards.
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