Martin Milner, the affable actor who did his best work behind the wheel on the TV series Route 66 and Adam 12, has died. He was 83.
Milner, whose big-screen career also included roles in the sensational Burt Lancaster films Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Sweet Smell of Success, both released in 1957, died Sunday night, his Adam-12 co-star, Kent McCord, confirmed to the Associated Press. No other details of Milner’s death were immediately available.
As clean-cut Yale graduate Tod Stiles on Route 66, which aired on CBS from 1960-64, Milner and his working-class buddy Buz Murdock (George Maharis, later to be replaced by Glenn Corbett’s Lincoln Case) traveled all over the country in Tod’s Corvette convertible in search of adventure.
Then, on NBC’s long-running Adam-12, Milner played Officer Pete Malloy, who partnered with hot-tempered young Officer Jim Reed (McCord) to protect and serve the citizens of L.A. as they patrolled the city streets. The realistic, day-in-the-life series, produced by Jack Webb, ran from 1968-75.
