Ross Martin
Birthday: 22 March 1920, Gródek Jagiellonski, Lwowskie, Poland [now Horodok, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]
Birth Name: Martin Rosenblatt
Height: 180 cm
Born in Grodek, Poland, Ross Martin grew up on New York City's Lower East Side. He spoke Yiddish, Polish, and Russian before even learning English and later added French, Spanish, and Italian to ...Show More
On the hazards of a job requiring changes in appearance: "I went home one afternoon to pick up a scr Show more
On the hazards of a job requiring changes in appearance: "I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly Hills Police were at my door because a neighbor had reported a suspicious stranger lurking around Ross Martin's house. I had to peel off my beard to prove who I was." Hide
On ad-libs: "I've been allowed to add a bit of dialogue to the characters now and then, just to help Show more
On ad-libs: "I've been allowed to add a bit of dialogue to the characters now and then, just to help the illusion. When I portrayed a German count, there was a scene where a tough dived at me from the stairway. I side-stepped him and ad-libbed, Have a nice trip.' I was allowed to keep it in."Later, one man grabbed me from behind and another came at me from the front. I added, 'That's no way to treat an old man.' That was left in too. [From the 1st season B&W Episode "The Night of the Burning Diamond."] Hide
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