Actor Stuart Margolin, best known for his role as Evelyn “Angel” Martin in the classic series ‘Arquivo Confidencial’, died on Monday (12/12) at the age of 82. Her stepson, actor Max Martini (“Bosch: Legacy”), spread the news of her death in an Instagram post, but the cause of death was not disclosed.
In addition to his role in the classic series, Stuart Margolin had an extensive career that spanned more than 60 years and surpassed 120 acting credits, including appearances in films such as ‘The Scam Warriors’ (1970) and ‘Death Wish’ (1974), and in such acclaimed series as ‘Terra de Gigantes’, ‘M*A*S*H*’, ‘Magnum’, ’30 Rock’ and ‘The X-Files’.
Born January 31, 1940 in Davenport, Iowa, Margolin began his career in the early 1960s with appearances on such popular series as ‘The Fugitive’ and ‘The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.’ Throughout the decade, he continued to appear on TV in long-running productions, including “Tempering Steel” (Ironside), “The Man from Virginia,” “The Monkees,” “Bewitched,” and “The FBI.”
In the same period in which he saw his career in cinema take off, in films such as “Por um Corpo de Mulher” (1968), “Os Guerreiros Pilantras” (1970) and “Acorrentadas ao Passado” (1972), he won his first recurring roles, appearing in 29 episodes of the series “Love’s Dangerous Game” (broadcast between 1969 and 1973) and in 24 episodes of “Nichols” (1971-1972).
1974 is the turning point, when he participates in the classic “Desejo de Matar”, with Charles Bronson, and makes his debut in the “Arquivo Confidencial” series, his best known work.
The series starred James Garner as private investigator Jim Rockford, who in each episode solved a different case in the city of Los Angeles. Margolin played Evelyn “Angel” Martin, whom Rockford met while in prison. The character was an unreliable, pathologically lying con man whose schemes constantly got the detective into trouble, yet the two remained friends.
Margolin won two Emmys in a row, in 1979 and 1980, for her work on the attraction’s fifth and sixth seasons. He has appeared in more than 30 episodes, including the first and last of the series, shown in 1980, as well as appearing in all eight telefilms derived from the series in the 1990s. To top it off, he also directed two episodes of the production .
Interestingly, “Confidential Archive” was neither Margolin’s first nor last collaboration with James Garner. The two had previously worked together in the western series “Nichols” (1971-1972) and reunited in “Bret Maverick” (1981-1982), a continuation of the classic western “Maverick” (1957-1962).
In the following decades, the actor appeared in several series such as “Touch of an Angel” (1997-2000), “Beggars and Choosers” (1999-2000) and “Tom Stone”, in which he appeared in 26 episodes, gone aired between 2002 and 2004, as well as the revival of “The X-Files” (in 2018).
He was also in the films ‘The Hustler of the Year’ (2006) and ‘The Deal’ (2012), both with Richard Gere, and was still active, having written and starred in ‘What the Night Can Do’, which was directed by his son Christopher Martini in 2020, and this year he participated in the short film “Home”, directed by his nephew Sean Carlo Martini.
In the post announcing Margolin’s death, Max Martini (Sean Carlo’s father) called him “a very talented stepfather who has always been there with love and support for his family.” Check out the post below.
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