Born Alvin Morris, Tony Martin received a soprano saxophone on his tenth birthday. In his grammar school glee club, he became an instrumentalist and soprano pop singer. When in high school he then formed his first band called "The Red Peppers", eventually joining a local orchestra leader, Tom Gerun, as a reed instrument specialist, sitting along with a future band leader, Woody Herman...See full bio »
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Episode #1.26
(1951)
(performer: "Louise" - uncredited, "Lullaby of Broadway" - uncredited, "La vie en rose" - uncredited, "The Dum-Dot Song" - uncredited)
1941The Big Store
(performer: "Tenement Symphony" 1941, "If It's You" 1941)
1941Ziegfeld Girl
(performer: "You Stepped out of a Dream" 1940 - uncredited, "Caribbean Love Song" 1941 - uncredited / "You Stepped out of a Dream" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Music in My Heart
(performer: "I've Got Music in My Heart" 1939, "No Other Love" 1939, "Punchinello" 1939, "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" 1900 - uncredited, "Oh What a Lovely Dream" 1939, "It's a Blue World" 1939 / "Punchinello" 1939)
1938Up the River
(performer: "It's The Strangest Thing")
1938Sally, Irene and Mary
(performer: "Sweet as a Song" - uncredited, "I Could Use a Dream" - uncredited, "Half Moon on the Hudson" - uncredited)
1937You Can't Have Everything
(performer: "The Loveliness of You" 1937 - uncredited, "North Pole Sketch" 1937 - uncredited / "Afraid to Dream" 1937 - uncredited)
(1959) Unsold pilot: He and wife Cyd Charisse starred in a pilot for a family dramatic series called "Night People" in which Martin would play a night club singer and Charisse his spouse.
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