Nan Martin


About

Birth Place
Decatur, Illinois, USA
Born
July 15, 1927
Died
March 04, 2010

Biography

Best remembered for her maternal character roles on film and series television, actor Nan Martin enjoyed a nearly five-decade career spanning everything from the Broadway stage to Emmy-winning sitcoms. Martin amassed a slew of credits on New York's Great White Way--most notably a Tony-nominated role in Archibald MacLeish's modernist play "J.B."--while also appearing in small movie parts....

Biography

Best remembered for her maternal character roles on film and series television, actor Nan Martin enjoyed a nearly five-decade career spanning everything from the Broadway stage to Emmy-winning sitcoms. Martin amassed a slew of credits on New York's Great White Way--most notably a Tony-nominated role in Archibald MacLeish's modernist play "J.B."--while also appearing in small movie parts. While the theater afforded her more substantial roles, Martin, in later years, became better known for playing comic characters on series television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as "Mr. Sunshine," "The Golden Girls," and "The Drew Carey Show." Able to tackle a surprisingly wide range of older, motherly types--from the cantankerous to the sweet--Martin worked consistently in TV and film until the mid '00s. Her final role was on the Golden Globe-nominated HBO film "Mrs. Harris" (2005) as the grieving mother of murdered Scarsdale Diet doctor Herman Tarnower.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Mrs. Harris (2006)
Thicker Than Water (2005)
Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Shallow Hal (2001)
Cast Away (2000)
Big Eden (2000)
murder in the mirror (2000)
Rose Morris
Terror in the Family (1996)
Ivy
Last Gasp (1995)
Mrs Hardwick
Mother of the Bride (1993)
Child of Rage (1992)
Barbara Tyler
Matters of the Heart (1990)
Irene Page
Animal Behavior (1989)
Mrs Nortan
Murder, Smoke and Shadows (1989)
Rose Walker
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Proud Men (1987)
Laura Macleod
Missing In Action 2--The Beginning (1985)
All Of Me (1984)
I Take These Men (1983)
John Steinbeck's "The Winter of Our Discontent" (1983)
Doctor Detroit (1982)
Margaret Skridlow
Prime Suspect (1982)
Some Kind Of Hero (1982)
Loving Couples (1980)
A Small Circle Of Friends (1980)
Mrs. R's Daughter (1979)
Mrs Berson
Katie: Portrait of Centerfold (1978)
Outside Chance (1978)
A Circle of Children (1977)
Jackson County Jail (1976)
Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
June Kinmont
Remember When (1974)
Annie Hodges
The Young Nurses (1973)
Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
Mrs. Patimkin
For Love of Ivy (1968)
Doris Austin
3 in the Attic (1968)
Dean Nazarin
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
Mrs. Nichols
The Art of Love (1965)
Margo
Toys in the Attic (1963)
Charlotte Warkins
The Mugger (1958)
Claire Townsend
The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Edna
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Miss Polly Lawrence

Cast (Special)

The Song of the Lark (2001)
Old Money (1988)
Dear Teacher (1981)
Karen Lipner

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

A Woman Named Jackie (1991)
Home Fires (1987)

Life Events

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