Last Thursday he died at the age of 80. Martin Mull. He was not only an actor and comedian, but he also cultivated music and painting. His daughter, the screenwriter, echoed this Maggie Mullaccording to media such as IndieWire. “It breaks my heart to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a brave fight against a long illness. He was known for excelling in every creative discipline imaginable (…) he never stopped being funny. My father will be deeply missed by his wife and his daughter, by his friends and co-workers, by his fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and (a sign of a truly exceptional person) by many, many dogs”.
“I loved him very much,” the statement concluded. Born in Chicago, Mull studied painting at university before turning to composition and eventually musical comedy, opening for artists such as Randy Newman, Billy Joel either Frank Zappa. He made the leap to acting in the middle of the decade in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartmansitcom that gave rise to two spin-offs very peculiar that kept him in the cast. Fernwood 2 Night and America 2 Nightcreated by Norman Learwere both satires of the talk showswhich paved the way for HBO to produce a fake documentary starring him in 1985, Martin Mull Presents the History of White People in America.
By then Mull was already well known and began to accumulate appearances in sitcoms such as Roseanne, The Golden Girls, Ellen and her world either Sabrina, witch things. Within the cinema he played Colonel Mustard for The game of suspicion from 1985, adaptation of the Cluedo, and two years later he was the protagonist of the comedy Lips for rent, directed by Robert Downey Sr. (that is, the father of Robert Downey Jr.) He also participated in A father in trouble and Rich kid 2 during the 90s, being one of his last works for the cinema A stupid and useless gesture 2018, focused on the creation of the magazine National Lampoon.
Mull’s best-known role, however, was perhaps that of the recurring Gene Parmesan within the series of the 2000s Arrested Development. During his audiovisual career, on the other hand, Mull never stopped painting. He combined pop art with collage and photorealist painting, and one of his paintings was used as the cover for a novel by Joyce Carol Oates My sister, my love.
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