Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, writer, singer and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He has starred in comedy films, such as Three Amigos (1986), Innerspace (1987), Three Fugitives (1989), Father of the Bride (1991), Pure Luck (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996) and Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), and created the characters Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. He also won a Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Musical for the 1999 Broadway revival of Little Me.
Early life
Short was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the youngest of five children of Olive Grace (née Hayter; 1913–68), a concertmistress of the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Patrick Short (1909–70), a corporate executive with Stelco, a Canadian steel company. He and his siblings were raised as Catholics. He had three older brothers, David (now deceased), Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora. Short's father was a Catholic immigrant from Crossmaglen, South Armagh (present-day Northern Ireland), who came to North America as a stowaway during the Irish War of Independence. Short's mother was of English and Irish descent. She encouraged his early creative endeavours. His eldest brother, David, was killed in a car accident in 1962 when Short was 12. His mother died of cancer in 1968, his father two years later of complications from a stroke.
Martin Short (author)
Martin Short (born 1943) is British TV documentary producer and author. He is best known for his exposés on the Mafia and on Freemasonry.
After reading history at Cambridge University, Short worked from 1969 to 1984 on major current affairs programmes for the ITV companies Thames Television, Granada and London Weekend Television (on the Lebanon) and for Channel 4's Dispatches series (on the international arms trade). In 1998 he presented Charlie Richardson and the British Mafia for Longshot Productions and Channel 4. Short has also completed a television series based on his 1989 book Inside the Brotherhood (Further Secrets of the Freemasons), for the ITV network with Twenty Twenty Television and Granada.
As a result of his work on Freemasonry, Short took part in a programme in the second series of Channel 4's After Dark about Freemasonry, and in 1989 was praised by then Labour MP Max Madden in his UK House of Commons Early Day Motions numbers 672 and 673.
Short wrote, produced and narrated the prize winningITV documentary series on the Mafia in America, Crime Incorporated. To accompany the series he also wrote Crime Inc.: A History of Organized Crime in America. In addition to feature articles for The Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, Punch and Time Out, he co-authored (in 1977) The Fall of Scotland Yard about police corruption in London.
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- Fame Becomes Me released:
Fame Becomes Me
- Another Curtain Goes Up
- All I Ask (Is You Love Me)
- Three Gorgeous Kids
- Big Titties
- The Salesman That Got Away
- Sittin' On The Fence
- The Jackie Rogers Jr. Show
- Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Broadway
- The Hello Boy
- 'The Strumpet Of Samaria'
- Step Brothers To Jesus
- 'Backstage Courtship'
- Married To Marty
- Sniff...sniff...
- 'A Dry Martin, Straight Up...With A Twist
- Twelve Step Pappy
- More More More
- Would You Like To Star In Our Show
- I Came Just As Soon As I Heard
- A Wicked Memorial
- Michael's Song
- Heaven, Heaven
- Up Here In Heaven
- A Big Black Lady Stops The Show
- Finale
- Lesson Learned
- Glass Half Full
- Frieda May's Lament
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