Director Leslie H. Martinson dies at 101

Leslie H. Martinson (1915-2016) Prolific film and TV director
Brezniak Rodman Funeral Directors announce:

Leslie H. Martinson-of Los Angeles,CA, an American television and film director. He died at home of natural causes on September 3, 2016 and is survived by his wife,Connie Martinson, a television host and writer. He will be buried at Temple Israel Cemetery, Wakefield, on Friday, September 9,2016 at 12:00 noon.Complete notice to follow.

Wikipedia:

"He was a newspaper journalist before accepting a long-term job as an MGM script clerk in 1936. He began directing TV western series in the early 1950s. His first feature film assignment was Republic Pictures' 1954 film, The Atomic Kid, a Mickey Rooney matinée vehicle. Beginning with episodes of the series Conflict, Martinson became a prolific director for Warner Brothers Television.

In 1954-1955, he directed the first of Mickey Rooney's three failed situation comedy television series entitled The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Martinson continued directing feature films and episodic television including Maverick, PT 109, Temple Houston, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Diff'rent Strokes, and the made-for-TV movie, Rescue from Gilligan's Island. During the 1980s, Martinson directed episodes of Harper Valley PTA, CHiPs, and Airwolf."


He's possibly best known for directing the 1966 TV series spinoff feature film Batman, often promoted as Batman: The Movie.

Imdb entry. (Also including the 1967 Raquel Welch film Fathom and such TV series as Ironside, The Brady Bunch, Cannon, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, Dallas, Manimal and Fantasy Island).

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RIP Leslie H.Martinson, 1915-2016. Ironically, he never worked on GILLIGAN, but an older, equally well known Leslie did, LESLIE GOODWINS, 1899-1969.RIP to both.