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No homepage...[edit]

Many have asked why put anything in the "homepage" section of the actors' bio box if there is no official website?

Why not? 2 reasons.

First, it saves the user a lot of wasted time on search engines looking for one.

Second, it gives the impetus for these poeple to get an official website!

'Nuff said?

trezjr 22:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you really think Milner really cares about a personal web page? ArcAngel (talk) 17:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Having met Milner on several occasions, I can tell you he doesn't give a hoot about a homepage! His life is his family and fishing. Acting was just a job.Zabadu (talk) 18:05, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

external link to Martin Milner Fansite @ Hollywood.com[edit]

To the individuals who keep deleting the external link to Martin Milner Fansite @ Hollywood.com: This website contains a scholarly, extensive biography of actor Martin Milner (with over 130 references) and has been written by a university history professor who also contributed successfully (without subsequent editing) to the biography section of the Wikipedia article.

Mjmiles64 (talk) 16:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fansites are prohibited under our external links guidelines. Anything that is in that site which would be of use to an encyclopedia should be properly implemented into the article and cited as coming from that site. You are welcome to do this if you want the site to be featured on Wikipedia, but it does not belong as a direct link in the "external links" section. Themfromspace (talk) 16:58, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Then it can remain listed under references. Mjmiles64 (talk) 17:00, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No it can't unless it is already cited in the article. Please see WP:CITE for information about citing sources. Themfromspace (talk) 17:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Birthdate[edit]

In reference to the birthdate issue, Milner stated in Photoplay Magazine in the February 1973 issue, article written by Jane Ardmore:

But he didn't always feel this way. At ten, he discovered acting was what he could do best, so he acted, first with the Cornish Theater in Seattle; then when he was starting junior high school, he picked up an agent, and at 14 he had snagged the role of John Day, the oldest son in "Life With Father" starring Irene Dunne and William Powell. He worked on it for five months--"an awfully long time when you're a kid. I was very bored by the end of it and was eager to get back to school and my friends.

"For a year-and-a-half afterwards, I really didn't do anymore acting. I had one bit part at Columbia and worked a week, and that was it until I was 17. I suppose my lack of offers was commensurate with my lack of experience and the fact that I was a big kid. Any role I could play as a 16-year-old could be done by an 18-year-old and a studio wouldn't have to put up with social workers and tutors on the set. I didn't start working until I began fabricating my age."

He was 17 and being interviewed by veteran producer Herbert Yates for a part in "The Sands of Iwo Jima." It was an excellent role for a young fellow, the pay was good and at one point during the interview, Yates asked Marty his age. Marty said, without thinking, "18." He got the part and when the picture was premiered, at a celebration dinner, Marty, who was seated next to the producer, mentioned that it was his birthday. "Yes, I know," smiled Yates. "You're finally 18."

Milner was born in 1931. He fabricated 1927 to get parts. Whether anyone want to add this to the profile or not, it's up to you.Zabadu (talk) 18:04, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]