Steve Martin
American comedian, actor, musician and writer · United States · On the map · Comedians · Born 1945 · age 81
He made absurdism a stadium act in the 1970s - arrow through the head, wild and crazy guy - then slid into movies where the joke was always a half-step left of where you expected it. Five decades later, he's still working: banjo albums, a Hulu murder mystery, national tours with Martin Short.
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Carl Reiner Directed Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and The Jerk
Frank Oz Directed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Shawn Levy Directed Cheaper by the Dozen (2004)
Nancy Meyers Produced Father of the Bride (1992)
Brian Grazer Produced Parenthood and Bowfinger
Martin Short Also in Father of the Bride (1992)
Robert Simonds Produced The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
Richard Pryor Influenced Steve
John Landis Directed Three Amigos and ¡Three Amigos!
Lorne Michaels Produced Three Amigos and Baby Mama
Ashok Amritraj Produced Bringing Down the House and Shopgirl- David V. Picker Produced The Jerk and The Man with Two Brains
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Goldie Hawn Produced My Blue Heaven (1992)George Burns Influenced Steve
Eugene Levy Also in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2006)
Adam Shankman Directed Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2006)
Herbert Ross Directed My Blue Heaven and Pennies from Heaven
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Charles Shyer Directed Father of the Bride (1992)
Peter Asher Produced Love Has Come for You and So Familiar
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Stephen Glenn Martin was born August 14, 1945, and broke through writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, winning a Primetime Emmy in 1969. By the mid-1970s he was selling out theaters with offbeat, absurdist stand-up - a style that earned him Grammy Awards for Let's Get Small (1977) and A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978). He turned to film with The Jerk in 1979, then a run through the 1980s and 1990s that included Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Roxanne, L.A. Story, the Father of the Bride films, and Bowfinger. Since 2015 he's toured with Martin Short; in 2021 the pair launched Only Murders in the Building on Hulu alongside Selena Gomez, which brought him Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and a Peabody nod. He's also written for Broadway - the musical Bright Star in 2016, the comedy Meteor Shower in 2017 - and released bluegrass albums that won him three more Grammys.
