Remembering Mick Martin
Original Airdates: July 25-28, 2025
TVC 699.1: An encore presentation of a conversation from May 2015 with Mick Martin, the longtime blues artist and radio host who enjoyed a parallel successful career as film critic for The Sacramento Union and other newspapers. Mick Martin passed away on Sunday, July 13 at age seventy-six. Mick interviewed hundreds of actors and musicians, including Clint Walker, Jack Kelly and Christopher Lee, while his books include Video Movie Guide, a guide to movies and TV shows available on home entertainment that Mick published annually for many years, and Them Ornery Mitchum Boys, a joint biography of actors Robert Mitchum and John Mitchum.
Mick Martin on John Mitchum and other character actors
Original Airdates: July 25-28, 2025
TVC 699.2: From May 2015: Blues artist, radio host, and film historian Mick Martin and Ed discuss why John Mitchum, the younger brother of Robert Mitchum, was something of a “Hard Luck Harry” until his memorable role opposite Clint Eastwood in the original Dirty Harry. Other topics this segment include a look at such other notable character actors as Andrew Robinson, Richard Farnsworth, and Wilford Brimley; why Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones are really “character actors” at heart; and why Lonesome Dove remains one of Mick’s favorite movies. Mick Martin passed away on Sunday, July 13 at age seventy-six.
