Martin Milner, who drove a Corvette across America for four years as the co-star of TV's "Route 66" and later traded in the iconic convertible for a police patrol car as a star of "Adam-12," died Monday at his home in Carlsbad. He was 82.
His death after a long illness was confirmed by his son, Stuart.
The red-haired, freckle-faced Milner had more than a dozen years of work in films and television behind him in 1960 when he began plying the highways and byways of America on "Route 66," portraying Yale dropout Tod Stiles opposite George Maharis' streetwise New Yorker Buz Murdock.