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His only feature for the big screen was The Mephisto Waltz, released by Twentieth Century-Fox. Besides producing sixteen one-hour television network series, he also produced twenty TV movies, including Attack on Terror, Brinks: The Great Robbery, Face of Fear, House on Greenapple Road, and Murder or Mercy.
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QM Productions produced a string of successful television series during the 1960s and 1970s, including The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, The F.B.I., The Invaders, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, and Barnaby Jones.
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He also established a scholarship for theater arts and communications students at Santa Clara University QM Productions He sold it in 1978 and worked as an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego's Warren College, where he also endowed a chair in drama. In 1960, Martin established his own production company, QM Productions. In 1959 he produced for Desilu Productions a two part special that appeared in season 1 of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse that became a weekly television show: The Untouchables, which would go on to win Emmy Awards. His first wife, Madelyn Pugh Davis, was one half of the writing team behind Desilu's classic I Love Lucy. Martin started his career in television as a film editor at MGM and also worked as manager of post production for various organizations, including Universal Studios (1950–1954), but by the mid-1950s had become an executive producer for Desilu Studios. While attending the University of California, Berkeley, Martin majored in English, but did not graduate. He changed his name to Quinn Martin (the Quinn came from the pronunciation his friends gave of Cohn, as "Co-Inn"). He served five years in the United States Army during World War II, enlisting in the Signal Corps at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, California on September 10, 1940. From age four he was raised in Los Angeles. His father Martin Goodman Cohn was a film editor and producer at MGM his mother was Anna Messing Cohn.
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He was born on in New York City as Irwin Martin Cohn, the second of two children.