Steve Martin Scroll down for movie list. Biography
Mini biography
Comic who successfully made the transition from a zany stand-up act to ridiculous film comedies to dramatic film roles to leading man status.
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Spouse
Victoria Tennant (1986 - 1994)
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Trivia
Is an accomplished banjo player.
Stanley Kubrick liked his work in Jerk, The (1979) and once considered having him play Bill Harford in Eyes Wide Shut (1999); the role which later went to Tom Cruise
Dated Anne Heche
Is a trustee of the Los Angeles Museum of Art, and collects the art of O'Keefe, Diebenkorn, de Kooning, Kline, Twombly, Frankenthaler, Hopper, Hockney, Lichtenstein, and Picasso.
Born at 5:54am-CWT
More appearances on 'Saturday Night Live' than anyone else (followed closely by Buck Henry). Some 25 at last count.
He is in the horn section of B.B. King's "In The Midnight Hour" music video.
He was in the music video "Proof" by Paul Simon (I).
Studied philosophy at California State University at Long Beach, and for a while, considered becoming a philosophy professor instead of an actor-comedian.
Once had a job at Disneyland in the Magic Shop on Main Street, USA.
Dated Bernadette Peters and Helena Bonham Carter
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Personal quotes
"I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy."
"The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself." |  |