Martin Milner drove a Corvette across America for four years in Rt 66 Series
DENNIS MCLELLAN as republished from LA Times
Dateline September 2015. Martin Milner, who drove a Corvette across America for four years as the co-star of TV’s “Route 66” and later traded in the iconic convertible for a police patrol car as a star of “Adam-12,” died Sunday at his home in Carlsbad. He was 83.
His death after a long illness was confirmed by his son, Stuart.
The red-haired, freckle-faced Milner had more than a dozen years of work in films and television behind him in 1960 when he began plying the highways and byways of America on “Route 66,” portraying Yale dropout Tod Stiles opposite George Maharis’ streetwise New Yorker Buz Murdock.
The hourlong dramatic series on CBS, in which the two young men became involved in the problems of the people they met as they crisscrossed the country and worked a variety of jobs, was shot on location. Continue reading “
Driving Across Country in a Corvette – Rt 66 Star, Martin Milner Dies”
