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66-483: Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television , and recording , he has received many accolades , including five Grammy Awards , a Primetime Emmy Award and an Honorary Academy Award , in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards . He also received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005,

132-544: A Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 2002. His first solo music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (2009) received the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album . Stephen Glenn Martin was born on August 14, 1945, in Waco, Texas , the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913–2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914–1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. He has an older sister, Melinda. Martin

198-628: A Musical and Best Original Score and received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and the Outstanding Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album . Martin's next work as a playwright was the comic play Meteor Shower which opened at San Diego 's Old Globe Theatre in August 2016, and went on to Connecticut 's Long Wharf Theatre later

264-418: A Variety Special and Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "The Buddy Song". By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an accident" for him; his real goal was to get into film. Martin had

330-441: A dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams . Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won an Emmy Award in 1969 at the age of twenty-three. He wrote for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour . Martin's first television appearance

396-763: A frequent host on Saturday Night Live . He became one of the most popular U.S. stand-up comedians during the 1970s, performing his brand of offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before sold-out theaters on national tours. Martin went on to star in film roles, including such films as The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983), All of Me (1984), ¡Three Amigos! (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), L.A. Story (1991), Bowfinger (1999) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). He played family patriarchs in Parenthood (1989),

462-581: A guest star in 30 Rock as Gavin Volure in the episode Gavin Volure . He was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series . The following year he starred in Nancy Meyers ' romantic comedy It's Complicated (2009), opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin . In 2009, an article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination. During

528-418: A late-night series called Twilight Theater . It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies from Heaven (1981), based on the 1978 BBC serial by Dennis Potter . He was anxious to perform in the movie because of his desire to avoid being typecast . To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross and spent months learning how to tap dance . The film

594-607: A national catch phrase . His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978), was an even bigger success, reaching the No. 2 spot on the U.S. sales chart, selling over a million copies. "Just a wild and crazy guy" became another of Martin's known catchphrases. The album featured a character based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played the Festrunk Brothers; Yortuk and Georgi were bumbling Czechoslovak would-be playboys. The album ends with

660-483: A person to come up and do the same thing over and over for two weeks. This is what I enjoy, so I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over [...] I'm going to do the same joke over and over in the same show, it'll be like a new thing. Or: "Hello, I'm Steve Martin, and I'll be out here in a minute." In one comedy routine, used on the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, Martin claimed that his real name

726-478: A professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic , and they were talking about cause and effect , and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do

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792-572: A revival of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols. He played Vladimir , with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky. Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood with Rick Moranis in 1989. He later re-teamed with Moranis in the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven (1990). In 1991, Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story , a romantic comedy, in which the female lead

858-681: A small role in the 1972 film Another Nice Mess . In 1974, he starred in the Canadian travelogue production The Funnier Side Of Eastern Canada, created to promote tourism in Montreal and Toronto, which also included standup segments filmed at the Ice House in Pasadena, California. His first substantial film appearance was in a short titled The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). The seven-minute-long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr ,

924-686: A ten-minute stand-up routine before turning the stage over to Seinfeld. Also in 2016 he staged a national tour with Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers , which yielded a 2018 Netflix comedy special, Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life . The special received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations with Martin receiving two nominations for Outstanding Writing for

990-541: A writer for the syndicated single-panel comic Bliss . Together, they published the cartoon collection A Wealth of Pigeons . In 2022, they collaborated again for Martin's illustrated autobiography, Number One is Walking . In 1993, Martin wrote his first full-length play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile . The first reading of the play took place in Beverly Hills, California at his home, with Tom Hanks reading

1056-490: Is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life. In 1967, Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. While attending college, he appeared in an episode of The Dating Game , winning a date with Deana Martin . Martin began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices, and at twenty-one, he dropped out of college. In 1967, his former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt,

1122-697: Is of English , Scottish , Welsh , Scots-Irish , German , and French descent and grew up in Inglewood, California , with his sister and then later in Garden Grove, California , in a Baptist family. Steve was a cheerleader at Garden Grove High School . One of his earliest memories is seeing his father, as an extra serving drinks onstage at the Callboard Theater on Melrose Place in West Hollywood, California . During World War II , in

1188-501: Is self-referential and sometimes self-mocking . It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease , and the "controversial" kitten juggling (he is a master juggler; the "kittens" were stuffed animal toys ). His style is off-kilter and ironic and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions, such as Martin opening his act (from A Wild and Crazy Guy ) by saying: I think there's nothing better for

1254-399: Is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line , you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up. Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think: What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would

1320-723: The Father of the Bride films (1991–1995), Bringing Down the House (2003), and the Cheaper by the Dozen films (2003–2005). Since 2015, Martin has embarked on several national comedy tours with fellow comedian Martin Short . In 2018, they released their Netflix special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life which received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2021, he co-created and starred in his first television show,

1386-590: The Academy Awards in 2001, 2003 and in 2010 alongside Alec Baldwin . He has guest starred on 30 Rock (2008) earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination. Since 2021 he has starred in the Hulu mystery-comedy series Only Murders in the Building alongside Martin Short and Selena Gomez . He has also worked on Broadway as a playwright and composer. He wrote

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1452-657: The Bird Cage Theatre . He joined a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm . Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk , and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. Sherk's influence caused Martin to apply to the California State University, Long Beach , for enrollment with a major in philosophy. Sherk enrolled at UCLA , about an hour's drive north, and the distance eventually caused them to lead separate lives. Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming

1518-728: The Chicago International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. In 2007, he published a memoir, Born Standing Up , which Time magazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at No. 6, and praising it as "a funny, moving, surprisingly frank memoir." In 2010, he published the novel An Object of Beauty. Beginning in 2019, Martin has collaborated with cartoonist Harry Bliss as

1584-460: The Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building , alongside Short and Selena Gomez , for which he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award nomination, and a 2021 Peabody Award nomination. In 2022, Martin and Short co-hosted Saturday Night Live together with Gomez making an appearance. Martin is also known for writing

1650-517: The Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics . The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Martin first came to public notice as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1969, and later as

1716-656: The Main Street Magic shop , where tricks were demonstrated to patrons. While working at Disneyland, he was captured in the background of the home movie that was made into the short-subject film Disneyland Dream , incidentally becoming his first film appearance. By 1960, he had mastered several magic tricks and illusions and took a paying job at the Magic shop in Fantasyland in August. There he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals in

1782-612: The United Kingdom , his father appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey . Expressing his affection through gifts like cars and bikes, Steve's father was stern and not emotionally open to his son. He was proud but critical, with Steve later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly of hatred. Steve Martin's first job was at Disneyland , selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during his school's summer break. The work lasted for three years (1955–1958). During his free time, he frequented

1848-401: The 1992 comedy Housesitter , with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany . In 1994, he starred in A Simple Twist of Fate ; a film adaptation of Silas Marner . In David Mamet 's 1997 thriller The Spanish Prisoner , Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman ( Campbell Scott ). In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in

1914-568: The 200th episode of The Simpsons titled " Trash of the Titans ", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson, and also voiced Hotep in the animated film The Prince of Egypt . In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners , and Martin went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Bowfinger , which he also wrote. He also appeared in Disney's Fantasia 2000 to introduce

1980-546: The 2010s, Martin sparsely appeared in film and television. In 2011, he appeared with Jack Black , Owen Wilson , and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year directed by David Frankel . The film was criticized for its lightweight story and was a box office bomb. After a three-year hiatus, Martin returned in 2015 when he voiced a role in the DreamWorks animated film Home alongside Jim Parsons and Rihanna . The film received mixed critical reception but

2046-402: The 2014 musical Bright Star and the 2016 comedy Meteor Shower . Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental) , the award was first presented in 1989. In 1990 and 1991, the category was renamed Best Bluegrass Recording , and in 1990, the award was reserved for singles rather than albums. Since 1992,

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2112-519: The April 22, 1978, SNL program. Decades later, in 2012, The A.V. Club described Martin's unique style and its effect on audiences: [Martin was] both a consummate entertainer and a glib, knowing parody of a consummate entertainer. He was at once a hammy populist with an uncanny, unprecedented feel for the tastes of a mass audience and a sly intellectual whose goofy shtick cunningly deconstructed stand-up comedy. On his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up

2178-444: The Bride (1991), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), and The Pink Panther (2006). Martin has also hosted Saturday Night Live 16 times. Martin started his career as a writer for the television series Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour from 1968 to 1969. He has since portrayed numerous roles on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1971–1972), Saturday Night Live (1976–2022), and The Muppet Show (1977). Martin has also hosted

2244-403: The Dozen 2 . In 2006, he starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther , as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau . He reprised the role in 2009's The Pink Panther 2 . When combined, the two films grossed over $ 230 million at the box office. In the comedy Baby Mama (2008), starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler , Martin played the founder of a health food company. Martin also appeared as

2310-506: The Rest of Your Life with Martin Short in 2018. In 2020, Martin reprised his role as George Banks in the short Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish) . Martin stars in and is an executive producer of Only Murders in the Building , a Hulu comedy series alongside Martin Short and Selena Gomez , which he created alongside John Hoffman . In August 2022, Martin revealed that the series will likely be his final role, as he does not intend to seek out roles or cameos for other shows or films once

2376-403: The audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology. If you're studying geology, which

2442-406: The award has been presented under the category Best Bluegrass Album. Beginning in 1993, award recipients often included the producers , engineers , and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. In 1995 and 1997, producers of compilation albums were the only award recipients. The inaugural recipient of the award was Bill Monroe , widely considered to be

2508-430: The books to the musical Bright Star (2016) and to the comedy Meteor Shower (2017), both of which premiered on Broadway ; he co-wrote the music to the former. He has played banjo since an early age and has included music in his comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career. He has released several music albums and has performed with various bluegrass acts, including Earl Scruggs , with whom he won

2574-420: The box office like Pennies , endangering his young career. In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos! , directed by John Landis , and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels , and singer-songwriter Randy Newman . It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi . In 1986, Martin

2640-414: The content. In an open letter in the local Observer newspaper, Martin wrote: I have heard that some in your community have characterized the play as 'people drinking in bars, and treating women as sex objects.' With apologies to William Shakespeare, this is like calling Hamlet a play about a castle [...] I will finance a non-profit, off-high school campus production [...] so that individuals, outside

2706-454: The decision, he said, "My act was conceptual. Once the concept was stated, and everybody understood it, it was done... It was about coming to the end of the road. There was no way to live on in that persona. I had to take that fabulous luck of not being remembered as that, exclusively. You know, I didn't announce that I was stopping. I just stopped." In 2016, Martin made a low-key comeback to live comedy, opening for Jerry Seinfeld . He performed

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2772-525: The film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac , which he co-wrote and won him a Writers Guild of America Award . It also garnered recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , a remake of Bedtime Story , alongside Michael Caine . Also in 1988, he appeared at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in

2838-514: The founder of the genre. Alison Krauss has the most wins in the category, with six, including five with her band Union Station who are tied with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for second most wins. Jim Lauderdale , Nashville Bluegrass Band , and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are the only other acts to have won more than once, with two awards each. Del McCoury holds the record for most nominations, with ten, while Doyle Lawson , Noam Pickelny , Peter Rowan , and The Seldom Scene have

2904-781: The jurisdiction of the school board but within the guarantees of freedom of expression provided by the Constitution of the United States can determine whether they will or will not see the play. Inspired by Love has Come for You , Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on his first musical, Bright Star . It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945–46, with flashbacks to 1923. The musical debuted on Broadway on March 24, 2016. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised its score by Martin and Brickell writing, "The shining achievement of

2970-651: The manner of mentor Wally Boag , frequently performing for tips. In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could "be described most accurately as an agnostic ... he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition". In his early 20s, Martin dated Melissa Trumbo, daughter of novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo . After high school, Martin attended Santa Ana College , taking classes in drama and English poetry. In his free time, he teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at

3036-557: The mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson , and on The Gong Show , HBO 's On Location , The Muppet Show , and NBC 's Saturday Night Live ( SNL ). SNL 's audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, and he was one of the show's most successful hosts. Martin has appeared on twenty-seven Saturday Night Live shows and guest-hosted sixteen times, second only to Alec Baldwin , who has hosted seventeen times as of February 2017. On

3102-524: The most nominations without a win, with four. In 2018, the first tie in the history of the category occurred, with the award being presented to both Rhonda Vincent and The Infamous Stringdusters . The current recipient of the award is Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway , who won at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards . Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. Awards were presented to Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor as

3168-463: The musical is its winsome country and bluegrass score, with music by Mr. Martin and Ms. Brickell, and lyrics by Ms. Brickell...the songs — yearning ballads and square-dance romps rich with fiddle, piano, and banjo, beautifully played by a nine-person band — provide a buoyancy that keeps the momentum from stalling." The musical went on to receive five Tony Award nominations including Best Musical . Martin himself received Tony nominations for Best Book of

3234-620: The novellas Shopgirl (2000) and The Pleasure of My Company (2003), both more wry in tone than raucous. A story of a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills , Shopgirl was made into a film starring Martin and Claire Danes . The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005 and was featured at

3300-495: The park's anniversary. Disney continued to run the show until March 2009, which now plays in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln . Steve Martin filmography Steve Martin starred in such films as The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983), All of Me (1984), Three Amigos (1986), Roxanne (1987), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) Parenthood (1989), Father of

3366-460: The premise is polished to sparkling." Martin hosted the Academy Awards solo in 2001 and 2003 , and with Alec Baldwin in 2010 . In 2020, Martin opened the 92nd Academy Awards alongside Chris Rock with comedy material. They were not previously announced as that year's hosts, and joked after their opening monologue, "Well we've had a great time not hosting tonight". In 2005, Martin co-hosted Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years , marking

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3432-685: The role of Pablo Picasso and Chris Sarandon reading the role of Albert Einstein . Following this, the play opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and played from October 1993 to May 1994, then went on to run successfully in Los Angeles, New York City, and several other US cities. In 2009, the school board in La Grande, Oregon , refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about

3498-508: The same year. The play opened on Broadway at the Booth Theater on November 29, 2017. The cast features Amy Schumer , Laura Benanti , Jeremy Shamos and Keegan-Michael Key , with direction by Jerry Zaks . Critic Allison Adaot of Entertainment Weekly wrote, " Meteor Shower is a very funny play. Keening-like-a-howler-monkey funny. Design-a-new-cry-laughing-emoji funny...In the confident hands of writer and comedy maestro Steve Martin,

3564-630: The segment Pines of Rome , along with Itzhak Perlman . By 2003, Martin ranked fourth on the box office stars list, after starring in Bringing Down the House (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), each of which earned over $ 130 million at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, Looney Tunes: Back in Action . In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl , based on his own novella (2000), and starred in Cheaper by

3630-565: The series ends. Martin's first book was Cruel Shoes , a collection of comedic short stories and essays. It was published in 1979 by G. P. Putnam's Sons after a limited release of a truncated version in 1977. Throughout the 1990s, Martin wrote various pieces for The New Yorker . In 2002, he adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants , which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company , and in 2008 co-wrote and produced Traitor , starring Don Cheadle . He has also written

3696-480: The show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture. While on the show, Martin grew close to several cast members, including Gilda Radner . On the night she died of ovarian cancer , a visibly shaken Martin hosted SNL and featured footage of himself and Radner together in a 1978 sketch. In the 1970s, his television appearances led to the release of comedy albums that went platinum . The track "Excuse Me" on his first album, Let's Get Small (1977), helped establish

3762-673: The song " King Tut ", written and sung by Martin and backed by the "Toot Uncommons", members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band . It was later released as a single, reaching No. 17 on the U.S. charts in 1978 and selling over a million copies. The song came out during the King Tut craze that accompanied the popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in 1977 and 1978, respectively. Martin performed "King Tut" on

3828-504: Was "Gern Blanston". The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as its name. Martin's show soon required full-sized stadiums for the audiences he was drawing. Concerned about his visibility in venues on such a scale, Martin began to wear a distinctive three-piece white suit that became a trademark for his act. Martin stopped doing stand-up comedy in 1981 to concentrate on movies and did not return for thirty-five years. About

3894-457: Was a financial failure; Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy." Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk : Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984, his most critically acclaimed performance up to that point. Martin was by now requesting almost $ 3 million per film, but Plaid and Two Brains both failed at

3960-644: Was a financial success. In 2016, he played a supporting role in Ang Lee 's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk . He also appeared as himself in Jerry Seinfeld 's Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2016. He also appeared in the taped version of Oh, Hello on Broadway (2017) as the guest. He also starred in the Netflix comedy special An Evening You Will Forget for

4026-499: Was a huge success, grossing over $ 100 million on a budget of approximately $ 4 million. Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999's Eyes Wide Shut ). Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life , a prime-time television series starring friend Martin Mull , and

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4092-661: Was depressed for a week. During these years his roommates included Gary Mule Deer and Michael Johnson . Gary Mule Deer supplied the first joke Martin submitted to Tommy Smothers for use on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show. Martin opened for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (who returned the favor by appearing in his 1980 television special All Commercials ), The Carpenters , and Toto . He appeared at The Boarding House , among other venues. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1976. In

4158-572: Was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie ), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis . In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles . That same year, Martin starred in Roxanne ,

4224-399: Was on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968. He says: [I] appeared on The Virginia Graham Show, circa 1970. I looked grotesque. I had a hairdo like a helmet, which I blow-dried to a puffy bouffant, for reasons I no longer understand. I wore a frock coat and a silk shirt, and my delivery was mannered, slow and self-aware. I had absolutely no authority. After reviewing the show, I

4290-466: Was played by his then-wife Victoria Tennant . Martin also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan 's Grand Canyon , in which he played the tightly wound Hollywood film producer, Davis, who was recovering from a traumatic robbery that left him injured, which was a more serious role for him. Martin also starred in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995) and in

4356-441: Was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action . He made his first substantial feature film appearance in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , where he sang The Beatles ' " Maxwell's Silver Hammer ". In 1979, Martin starred in the comedy film The Jerk , directed by Carl Reiner , and written by Martin, Michael Elias, and Carl Gottlieb . The film

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