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Martin Short

Martin Short
Martin Short
Born: Mar 26, 1950 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Actor, Writer,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
Career Highlights: Innerspace, Cross My Heart, Merlin
First Major Screen Credit: The David Steinberg Show (1974)
19 Videos for Martin Short
Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest (2008) Merlin (1998) We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) The Prince of Egypt (1998) The Return of Spinal Tap (1992)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) A Simple Wish (1997) Pure Luck (1991)
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004) Mars Attacks! (1996) Cross My Heart (1987)
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003) The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) Innerspace (1987)
Treasure Planet (2002) Clifford (1994) Three Amigos! (1986)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
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Biography:

The son of a steel-executive father and concert violinist mother, Ontario native Martin Short attended McMasters University, where he graduated in 1972 with a degree in social work. If you haven't spotted Short at your local youth center or settlement house, it's because he decided to pursue a performing career, encouraged by his fellow McMasters classmates Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas.

Making his professional debut in a 1973 Toronto production of {~Godspell}, Short joined Levy and Thomas at the Second City improv troupe in Edmonton, Alberta in 1977. Two years later, Short made his first film, Lost and Found, and also co-starred on the critically lauded but little-seen American sitcom The Associates.

It was while appearing on SCTV Network 90 from 1982 through 1983 and Saturday Night Live from 1984 through 1985 that Short attained stardom with such distinctive comic characterizations as supercilious showbiz promoter Jackie Rogers Jr. and pointy-headed nerd Ed Grimley (this last-named character was spun off into an amusing Saturday morning cartoon series in 1989).

He also scored big yocks with his devastating, dead-on impressions of such icons as Jerry Lewis and Katharine Hepburn (a lifelong Jerry Lewis fan, Short was invited to join Lewis as co-host of a cable-TV Martin and Lewis retrospective in 1993; he has yet to share the spotlight with the real Ms.

Hepburn). Though an extremely likeable screen presence, the puckish Short has, like many of his Second City brethren, frequently been cast in films far beneath his talents, hitting bottom with 1994's Clifford. Happily, he has been extremely well-served in such films as Three Amigos (1986), Innerspace (1989), and the 1992 remake of Father of the Bride, in which he had an unbearably funny cameo as epicene wedding planner Franck Eggelhoffer.

In 1993, Short made his Broadway debut, assuming the old Richard Dreyfuss role in a musical adaptation of the 1977 film {~The Goodbye Girl}. The following year, Martin Short had another go at television, headlining the weekly (but not for long) Seinfeld rip-off The Martin Short Show.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.