Dean Paul Martin was born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California. He was the son of actor & singer Dean Martin. He starred opposite Ali MacGraw in the 1979 movie about tennis, “Players”. In 1985 he starred in the TV series “Misfits of Science”. In 1987 he was killed in an airplane crash. He left a son by his marriage to Olivia Hussey.
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The son of Rat Pack member Dean Martin, Dean Paul Martin initially showed interest in a singing career, and was also a talented tennis player, which served him well in his role opposite Ali McGraw in 1979’s The Players. An avid pilot and a captain in the California Air National Guard, Martin was killed when his F-4 Phantom jet fighter crashed into the San Bernadino Mountains in a snowstorm during a routine flight on March 21, 1987.
