Gregory Paul Martin
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Gregory Paul Martin, is a British writer/producer. The eldest son of Beatles producer Sir George Martin, he studied at Britain's oldest school, St. Albans School
, whose alumni include British film director Mike Newell
and the world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking
, before training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
in London, studying alongside Alan Rickman
and Juliet Stevenson
.
His acting roles in the British theater included the world premiere of Bent at The Royal Court in London with Sir Ian McKellen and a season alongside Daniel Day Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite at The Bristol Old Vic and seasons at London's famous Old Vic and Young Vic theaters. Following his performances at The Old Vic, he played Edmund The Bastard at The Young Vic, then moved to New York where his first American role was starring opposite Kevin Spacey in the Off-Off-Broadway production of Barrie Keefe's Barbarians.
His notable American theater credits include the title roles in Hamlet and Peer Gynt at the famous Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, as well as the American premier of Harold Pinter's Other Places at The Manhattan Theater Club in New York with Diane Wiest, a production directed by Samuel Becket's director, Alan Schneider.
Following that production he made his first foray in television, turning down a role in the most successful television series of the '80s, Dynasty, in favor a starring role opposite Liam Neeson, Faye Dunaway, and the late Richard Burton in the CBS mini-series Ellis Island. The mini-series garnered him enormous attention and a shot at the role of James Bond during the period when Pierce Brosnan was unable to get out of his television contract to accept the role, Gregory subsequently losing out on playing the world famous spy to Timothy Dalton because he was considered too young.
He moved to Hollywood accepting a pay-or-play deal for his own television series with Universal, marrying Natasha Garland, a writer and marketing executive and raising a son, Connor, who subsequently moved to Italy with his mother upon their divorce.
Gregory starred in the Warner Brothers movie Memoirs Of An Invisible Man alongside Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah, and A Walk In The Clouds opposite Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, slowly moving away from acting, beginning his writing career, selling his first script to director Carl Franklin at Sony. Subsequent successful spec sales included Tsunami, a movie optioned by ABC as a mini-series, and Ice, a sci-fi action thriller set in Antarctica.
In 1998 he returned for a brief period to England launching his own film and television production company and an organic food line. This time was one of the most difficult periods of his life, in the course of which he underwent a methodical character assassination in the British tabloid press, an experience that marked and changed him forever. He vowed he would never live in his own country again.
Returning to the U.S. he took a sabbatical from the entertainment industry, enjoying significant success as a rain-maker in the advertising and promotional brand marketing industries, as well as developing a large, high-profile following as an astrologer, a skill he had developed over his past twenty years, advising and counseling top business and financial people in Manhattan.
He currently resides in Los Angeles and with a production slate of thirty large-scale film, television and theater projects is launching a production company heavily involved in all three areas of entertainment, with the addition of a powerful music division, an area very close to his heart. His mission in life at this time, he has said, is "to reinvent the music industry through theater, television and film".
St. Albans School
St. Albans School may refer to:*St Albans School, , an independent school in Faridabad.*St Albans School , an independent school in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom founded in 948 AD...
, whose alumni include British film director Mike Newell
Mike Newell (director)
Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind Christopher Nolan...
and the world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
, before training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
in London, studying alongside Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
and Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE is an English actor of stage and screen.- Early life :Stevenson was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England, the daughter of Virginia Ruth , a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevenson, an army officer. Stevenson's father was in the army and was posted to a new place every...
.
His acting roles in the British theater included the world premiere of Bent at The Royal Court in London with Sir Ian McKellen and a season alongside Daniel Day Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite at The Bristol Old Vic and seasons at London's famous Old Vic and Young Vic theaters. Following his performances at The Old Vic, he played Edmund The Bastard at The Young Vic, then moved to New York where his first American role was starring opposite Kevin Spacey in the Off-Off-Broadway production of Barrie Keefe's Barbarians.
His notable American theater credits include the title roles in Hamlet and Peer Gynt at the famous Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, as well as the American premier of Harold Pinter's Other Places at The Manhattan Theater Club in New York with Diane Wiest, a production directed by Samuel Becket's director, Alan Schneider.
Following that production he made his first foray in television, turning down a role in the most successful television series of the '80s, Dynasty, in favor a starring role opposite Liam Neeson, Faye Dunaway, and the late Richard Burton in the CBS mini-series Ellis Island. The mini-series garnered him enormous attention and a shot at the role of James Bond during the period when Pierce Brosnan was unable to get out of his television contract to accept the role, Gregory subsequently losing out on playing the world famous spy to Timothy Dalton because he was considered too young.
He moved to Hollywood accepting a pay-or-play deal for his own television series with Universal, marrying Natasha Garland, a writer and marketing executive and raising a son, Connor, who subsequently moved to Italy with his mother upon their divorce.
Gregory starred in the Warner Brothers movie Memoirs Of An Invisible Man alongside Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah, and A Walk In The Clouds opposite Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, slowly moving away from acting, beginning his writing career, selling his first script to director Carl Franklin at Sony. Subsequent successful spec sales included Tsunami, a movie optioned by ABC as a mini-series, and Ice, a sci-fi action thriller set in Antarctica.
In 1998 he returned for a brief period to England launching his own film and television production company and an organic food line. This time was one of the most difficult periods of his life, in the course of which he underwent a methodical character assassination in the British tabloid press, an experience that marked and changed him forever. He vowed he would never live in his own country again.
Returning to the U.S. he took a sabbatical from the entertainment industry, enjoying significant success as a rain-maker in the advertising and promotional brand marketing industries, as well as developing a large, high-profile following as an astrologer, a skill he had developed over his past twenty years, advising and counseling top business and financial people in Manhattan.
He currently resides in Los Angeles and with a production slate of thirty large-scale film, television and theater projects is launching a production company heavily involved in all three areas of entertainment, with the addition of a powerful music division, an area very close to his heart. His mission in life at this time, he has said, is "to reinvent the music industry through theater, television and film".
Filmography
- The Funeral Party - Therapist
- A Walk in the CloudsA Walk in the CloudsA Walk in the Clouds is a 1995 American romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Arau. The screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, Mark Miller, and Harvey Weitzman is based on the 1942 Italian film Four Steps in the Clouds by Piero Tellini, Cesare Zavattini, and Vittorio de Benedetti.-Plot:Shortly after...
- Armistead Knox - EllenEllen (TV series)Ellen is a U.S. television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, producing 109 episodes.The theme song, "So Called Friend" is by Scottish band Texas...
- Roger - SeaQuest DSVSeaQuest DSVseaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future", seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction...
- Marcus Rawlings - Babylon 5Babylon 5Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...
"EyesEyes (Babylon 5)"Eyes" is an episode from the first season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.-Synopsis:An internal affairs investigation of Sinclair forces him to answer for his recent command decisions...
" (1994) - Colonel Ari Ben Zayn - Mad About YouMad About YouMad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992 to May 24, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City. Reiser played Paul Buchman, a documentary film maker. Hunt played Jamie Stemple Buchman, a public relations specialist...
- Andrew - Empty Nest - Ian
- Memoirs of an Invisible ManMemoirs of an Invisible ManMemoirs of an Invisible Man is a 1992 film directed by John Carpenter and released by Warner Bros., with many scenes taking place in and around San Francisco. The film is loosely based on a 1987 novel of the same name by H.F. Saint...
- Richard - Murder, She WroteMurder, She WroteMurder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...
- Danny Briggs - SlidersSlidersSliders is an American science fiction television series. It was broadcast for five seasons, beginning in 1995 and ending in 2000. The series follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes. The show was created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé...
- Gareth - Malcolm Takes a Shot
- Ellis IslandEllis IslandEllis Island in New York Harbor was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. It was the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the...
- Marco Santorelli