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Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has starred in his own TV sitcom and acted in prominent films. He is also a comedian, painter and recording artist.
was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in North Ridgeville, Ohio from age 2 to 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where he attended and graduated from public high school. He studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting.
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Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has starred in his own TV sitcom and acted in prominent films. He is also a comedian, painter and recording artist.
Biography
Personal life
Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in North Ridgeville, Ohio from age 2 to 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where he attended and graduated from public high school. He studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting. Twice divorced, Mull is married to singer Wendy Mull.
Career
Following a period of stand-up comedy performances and humorous song recordings including opening for Frank Zappa at Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters in 1973, his first famous role was as twins Garth Gimble and Barth Gimble in the television nighttime absurdist soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976), which led to spin-off comedy talk shows Fernwood 2-Night (1977) and America 2-Night (1978), in which he played Barth Gimble as emcee, opposite Fred Willard as sidekick Jerry Hubbard. Also in the 1970s, he appeared in a series of Pizza Hut commercials dealing with various ways to eat a pizza. During 1984 Mull starred in a CBS sitcom, Domestic Life, with Megan Follows playing his teenaged daughter. He had a long-running role playing the boss of lead character Roseanne Conner on the TV series Roseanne. He also has appeared as a guest on the game show Hollywood Squares, appearing as the center square in the show's final season. Mull has also recently guest starred on the television series, Gary Unmarried, as Allison's father.
He has also been in one episode of The Golden Girls, where he plays a hippy who is afraid of the outside world.
He has also acted in feature films, including:
Recurring roles followed on several television series:
During the 1980s, Mull starred in a series of television commercials for Michelob, and in a series of television and radio commercials for Red Roof Inn (a chain of budget-oriented hotels owned by Accor) during the mid-1990s. Mull has voiced a lazy robot on one episode of the cartoon series "Dexter's Laboratory", in which he has a rather clueless partner, voiced by Fred Willard. Mull voiced the role of The Evil Cad on Freakazoid! He has recently (2003-2007) done the voice of Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius on Danny Phantom.
In late 2004, he portrayed "Gene Parmesan," a private investigator who was better at showing up in strange places in strange disguises than actually finding anything out, on the FOX TV series Arrested Development. The episode was called "¡Amigos!".
Additionally, on Family Guy the name of the elementary school is Martin Mull Elementary. Despite devoting himself full time to painting, Martin added many acting credits in 2008, including shows such as Family Man, Two and a Half Men, Law and Order: SVU, Gary Unmarried, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Bonnie Hunt Show, and in 2009 as the host of That's Not Fake.
The author Ben Stein, in a thinly-veiled reference to Mr. Mull:
July 26, 1977
The comedy variety show I have been working on is finished taping for a few months. I went to the "wrap party" last night at the Bistro restaurant, a fine and fancy place. A lot of my friends from the studio were there...
After an hour, the star of the show appeared with his girl friend. He is a funny guy who used to sing at small nightclubs and colleges. He played a role on Mary Hartman and then he was killed off. I begged our studio head not to lose him, and he was saved for his own show, partly at my pleading request. When we first met, he called me "Ben" and was always full of jokes and pleasantries. When he got on the air, he started calling me "Benny," when he did not pass me without a word. Last night, after he had made it big, he saw me and said, "Well, look who's here." It's a standard line for people when they can't remember someone's name.
That ruined the party, even though the Bistro does make pretty good cannelloni.
Discography
- Martin Mull (1972)
- Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture In Your Living Room! (1973)
- Normal (1974)
- In The Soop With Martin Mull (1974)
- Days Of Wine And Neuroses (1975)
- I'm Everyone I've Ever Loved (1977)
- No Hits, Four Errors- The Best Of Martin Mull (1977)
- Sex and Violins (1978)
- Near Perfect/Perfect (1979)
- Mulling it Over- A Musical Ouvre-View of Martin Mull (1998)
Artworks
- at in New York City
- at in San Francisco
- at in Chicago
- at in Los Angeles
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