RIP Dewey Martin

Dallas Dewey Martin
Birth
8 Dec 1923
Katemcy, Mason County, Texas, USA
Death
Mar 2018 (aged 94)

US Navy 1940. Grumman F6F Hellcat pilot in Pacific. Fought in Battle of Midway. Shot down twice. Held as prisoner of war until Japan's surrender, weighing only 80 pounds.

He returned to U.S. and became an actor, known as Dewey Martin, appearing in multiple movies --The Golden Gloves Story (1950) with Oscar winner James Dunn, The Thing from Another World (1951), alongside Kirk Douglas in The Big Sky (1952), as a fighter with Shelley Winters and Charles Bronson in Tennessee Champ (1954), with Ronald Reagan in Prisoner of War (1954), and with Van Johnson as a blinded pilot landing a plane in Men of the Fighting Lady (1954), as brother of Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours(1955), featured with Dean Martin in Ted Thousand Bedrooms (1957), a lead in Land of the Pharaohs (1955) with Joan Collins, in two scenes in The Longest Day (1962) as Sgt. Wilder, and with a young Jack Nicholson in Flight to Fury (1964).

Television work included The Twilight Zone, "I Shot an Arrow into the Air"(1960) and Outer Limits, "The Premonition" (1965), playing Daniel Boone for four episodes of Walt Disney Presents, appearing in Lassie, and Mission:Impossible (with Robert Goulet), Climax!, Studio One Hollywood, Front Row Center, The Loretta Young Show, Zane Grey Theater, Burke's Law, I Spy, and Hawaii 5-O.

Early marriage to Margaret Ann Havelhurst (circa 1953-1954)

Married to singer, Peggy Lee(1920-2002) from 1956-1958. Step father to Nicki Lee Foster (1943-2014).

Survived by his wife of 40 years, Tiko, 2 stepsons, one grandson and two granddaughters."

Born: 12/8/1923, Katemcy, Texas, U.S.A.

Died: 3/9/2018, San Pedro, California, U.S.A.

Kansas Raiders – 1950 (James Younger)

The Big Sky – 1952 (Boone Caudill)

Cavalry Patrol – 1956 (Lt. Johnny Reardon)

Zane Grey Theater (TV) – 1957, 1958, 1960 (Ethan Boyan, Doc Holliday, Jack Harmer)

Daniel Boone: And Chase the Buffalo (TV) – 1960 (Daniel Boone)

Daniel Boone: The Warrior Path (TV) – 1960 (Daniel Boone)

Daniel Boone: The Promised Land (TV) – 1961 (Daniel Boone)

Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road (TV) – 1961 (Daniel Boone)

Savage Sam – 1963 (Lester White)

Laramie (TV) – 1963 (Vanton Madox)

Death Valley Days (TV) – 1964 (John Wheeler)

Seven Alone – 1974 (Henry Sager)

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (TV) – 1979 [himself]