Steve Martin

Steve Martin (Born 1945 in Waco, TX) is a Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominated, and Grammy Award winning American Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Musician, and Comedian. He started as one of the most successful stand-up comedians of the 1970′s and released a string of very popular comedy albums. He won Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album in both 1977 and 1978. A song, “King Tut”, off of one of the albums reached #18 on the Billboard Top-40 Music Charts in 1978. He was a frequent guest on ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” and later was a frequent guest-host on “Saturday Night Live”. He has appeared on “SNL” a record 25 times as a host or guest star over the course of his career. His “SNL” created skits with Dan Aykroyd as “The Festrunk Bothers” (“We are….2 Wild… and Crazy Guys!!”) has remained as one the best loved series of skits in the shows history. Since the late 1970′s he has gone on to a highly successful movie career and has appeared in films such as “The Jerk”, “The Lonely Guy”, “The Man with Two Brains”, “The Three Amigos!”, “Father of the Bride”, “ParentHood”, “LA Story”, “Shopgirl”, “Baby Mama”, “The Pink Panther”, “Father of the Bride: Part 2″, “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”, “Roxanne”, “Cheaper by the Dozen”, “The Out of Towners”, “Cheaper by the Dozen 2″, “The Pink Panther 2″, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “House Sitter”, “Leap of Faith”, “Bowfinger”, “Grand Canyon”, “My Blue Heaven”, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “Sgt. Bilko”, “Baby Mama”, “It’s Complicated”, and many others. He has been nominated over his career for 5 Emmy Awards and 5 Golden Globe Awards. He is an accomplished Banjo player and composer and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental making him a rare Grammy Winner for both Comedy and Music. Has hosted the Academy Awards twice and is slated to co-host the 2010 Academy Awards with Alec Baldwin.

Autograph #248 in Collection.