Stuart Margolin was an American film, theater, and television actor and director who won two Emmy Awards for playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin on the 1970s television series The Rockford Files.
20 Facts About Stuart Margolin
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Stuart Margolin was born January 31,1940, in Davenport, Iowa, to Morris and Gertrude Stuart Margolin but spent much of his childhood in Dallas, Texas, where he learned to golf.
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Stuart Margolin stated that he led a "hoodlum" childhood, was kicked out of Texas public schools, and was sent by his parents to a boarding school in Tennessee.
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When Stuart Margolin was released from reform school and moved back with his family, he decided to move back, on his own, to see his friends in Dallas.
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Stuart Margolin's parents made arrangements for him to attend a private school there.
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Stuart Margolin played the recurring character Evelyn "Angel" Martin, the shifty friend and former jailmate of Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files, whose various cons and schemes usually got Rockford in hot water.
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Stuart Margolin was earlier paired with Garner in the Western series Nichols, in which he played a character somewhat similar to the Angel character in The Rockford Files.
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Stuart Margolin won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for this role, in 1979 and 1980; he is one of only five actors to win this award twice for the same role.
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In 1969, Stuart Margolin wrote and co-produced The Ballad of Andy Crocker, an ABC television movie that was one of the first films to deal with the subject matter of Vietnam veterans "coming home".
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Stuart Margolin co-wrote the title song and had an uncredited cameo in the film.
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Stuart Margolin had an uncredited role as the Station Wagon Driver in Heroes, another story about Vietnam veterans dealing with what we now refer to as PTSD.
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Stuart Margolin played Rabbi David Small in the 1976 movie, Lanigan's Rabbi, based on the series of mystery novels written by Harry Kemelman.
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Stuart Margolin appeared as bail jumper Stanley Wescott in the episode The Overpass of the Canadian CBC Television series Republic of Doyle, which itself was inspired by The Rockford Files.
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Stuart Margolin won the 1996 DGA Award for children's programming for directing the film Salt Water Moose, and he was nominated again for the same award for directing the 1998 film, The Sweetest Gift.
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Stuart Margolin was nominated for a DGA Award for drama series direction for a 1991 episode of Northern Exposure entitled "Goodbye to All That".
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Stuart Margolin directed, co-starred and scored The Glitter Dome for HBO Pictures.
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Stuart Margolin wrote several songs for and with longtime friend and singer-songwriter Jerry Riopelle that have appeared on Riopelle's albums since 1967.
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Stuart Margolin was first associated with Riopelle's late 1960s band the Parade, co-writing many of their songs and playing percussion on various tracks.
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Stuart Margolin had frequently been misidentified as the brother of actress Janet Stuart Margolin ; the two were not related, although they appeared together as husband and wife in the pilot for the 1977 TV series Lanigan's Rabbi.
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Stuart Margolin died in Staunton, Virginia, on December 12,2022.