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Leslie “Les” H. Martinson (born January 16, 1915) is an American television and film director. He is married to television host and writer Connie Martinson.

Martinson was born to Gertrude and Lewis Martinson n Boston, Massachusetts on January 16, 1915. He also had a brother named Bertram and was a newspaper journalist before accepting a long-term job as an MGM script clerk in 1936. He began directing TV western series in the early 1950s. His first feature film assignment was Republic Pictures’ 1954 film, The Atomic Kid, a Mickey Rooney matinée vehicle. Beginning with episodes of the series Conflict, Martinson became a prolific director for Warner Brothers Television.

In 1954-1955, he directed the first of Mickey Rooney’s three failed situation comedy television series entitled The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Martinson continued directing feature films and episodic television including Maverick, PT 109, Temple Houston, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Diff’rent Strokes, and the made for TV movie, Rescue from Gilligan’s Island. During the 1980s, Martinson directed episodes of Harper Valley PTA, CHiPs, and Airwolf.

Martinson is President Emeritus of the West Coast Jewish Theatre. —Wikipedia