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Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has starred in his own TV sitcom and acted in prominent films. Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He is also a comedian, painter and recording artist.
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Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in North Ridgeville, Ohio from age 2 to 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where he attended and graduated from public high school. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. North Ridgeville is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 8 miles (13 km northeast of Stamford, on the Five Mile River [1] He studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting. The Rhode Island School of Design (abbreviated as RISD, pronounced /ˈrɪzdi/ is a Fine arts college located in Providence Rhode Island. In the USA the Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard Undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) is a Graduate degree typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the Bachelor's degree Twice divorced, Mull is married to singer Wendy Mull.
Following a period of stand-up comedy performances and humorous song recordings including opening for Frank Zappa at Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters in 1973, his first famous role was as Garth Gimble and Barth Gimble in the television nighttime absurdist soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976), which led to spin-off comedy talk shows Fernwood 2-Night (1977) and America 2-Night (1978), in which he played the emcee Barth Gimble, opposite Fred Willard as sidekick Jerry Hubbard. Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience with the absence of the theatrical " Fourth wall " Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director The Armadillo World Headquarters (usually called simply The Armadillo) was the premiere Music hall and entertainment center in Austin, Texas A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Mary Hartman Mary Hartman (sometimes abbreviated as MH2) is a 1976 - 1977 syndicated Soap opera Parody A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new Organization or Entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a Television series based on a pre-existing Fernwood 2 Night (or Fernwood Tonight) is a comedic Television program created by Norman Lear as a Spin-off America 2-Night was the continuation of the Talk-show Parody series Fernwood 2 Night. Fred Willard (born September 18 1939 He also appeared as KVWN news director "Ed Harken" in Anchorman The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and in American During 1984 Mull starred in a CBS sitcom, Domestic Life, with Megan Follows playing his teenaged daughter. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian /American actress He also has appeared as a guest on the game show Hollywood Squares, appearing as the center square in the show's final season. The Hollywood Squares was an American Television comedy and Game show in which two contestants play Tic-tac-toe to win money
He has also acted in feature films, including:
Recurring roles followed on several television series:
During the 1980s, Mull starred in a series of television commercials for Michelob, and in a series of television and radio commercials for Red Roof Inn (a chain of budget-oriented hotels owned by Accor) during the mid-1990s. American Dad! is a satirical American animated series produced by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions for 20th Century The War at Home was a sitcom that ran from September 11, 2005 to April 22, 2007 on Fox. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Michelob is the trade name of a family of beers produced by the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Red Roof Inn is a budget Hotel chain in the United States, operating over 325 properties primarily in the Midwest Southern and Eastern United States Accor ( is a large French Multinational corporation, part of the CAC 40 index operating in nearly 100 countries The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Mull has also voiced a lazy robot on one episode of the cartoon series "Dexter's Laboratory", in which he has a rather clueless partner, who was voiced by Fred Willard. Mull voiced the role of The Evil Cad on 'Freakazoid! He has recently done the voice of Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius on Danny Phantom. Freakazoid! is an American Animated television series, produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros Danny Phantom was an American animated television show created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon, produced by Billionfold Studios
In late 2004, he portrayed "Gene Parmesan," a private investigator who was better at showing up in strange places in strange disguises than actually finding anything out, on the FOX TV series Arrested Development. A private investigator or private detective (often shortened to PI or private eye) is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake Arrested Development is a character-driven American television Sitcom about a formerly wealthy habitually Dysfunctional family. The episode was called "¡Amigos!".