Actor stuart margolin biography of martin

Stuart Margolin, a character actor best known as ex-con Angel Martin on The Rockford Files, died Monday. He was 82.

Margolin, the son of a Dallas lighting wholesaler, was raised in Dallas and attended private school after being expelled from several public schools, including Hillcrest High School in 1955.

Actor Max Martini, Margolin’s stepson, announced his father’s death on Instagram.

Director Christopher Martini, another stepson, told The Hollywood Reporter that his father died of natural causes in Staunton, Va.

Margolin met his wife, Pat, in a Dallas juvenile court where she was serving as a student judge in a peer-justice program.

Margolin came to court with the “biggest file of traffic violations I’d ever handled,” she told The Dallas Morning News in 1987.

She referred his case to Dallas police. Margolin then landed in an institution he described as “a kind of holding pen for juvenile delinquents, emotionally