Glenn L. Martin
actor, stunts
- Born:
- 1886-01-17, Macksburg, Iowa, USA
- Died:
- 1955-12-04, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Professions:
- actor, stunts
Biography
The year 1886 opened with a January chill in Macksburg, Iowa, on the very day Glenn L. Martin arrived in the world. While most boys of the prairie dreamed of locomotives or cattle trails, Martin’s imagination took wing—so decisively that by 1915 he was stepping before Pathé cameras for “A Girl of Yesterday,” trading blue mid-western skies for the flicker of silent-film spotlights. A year later he turned up in “Pathé News, No. 28,” a fleeting cellulose cameo that preserved his early aura of dare-devil charm. Four decades on, he resurfaced in living rooms across 1953 via “The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen,” this time not as a dashing aviator-actor but as living proof that the age of flight had leapt from fantasy to commonplace. Martin’s final curtain fell on 4 December 1955 in Baltimore, Maryland, closing the loop on a life that began in an Iowa farmhouse and ended amid the hum of East-Coast aviation circles.
