- Martin Magner was born on March 5, 1900 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. Martin was a director, known for The Goldbergs (1949), Studio One (1948) and Crime Syndicate (1951). Martin died on January 25, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- For a while he taught at Northwestern University and again directed opera.
- Magner enjoyed mountain climbing.
- Although Magner willed himself to live long, he was philosophical about death, telling The Times in 1995: "I like to think that something remains [after we die]--call it the soul, the spirit. If not, what are we all here for.
- After having to retire when he reached the age of 65, he moved to California and returned to theatre; he became the artistic director of the Inglewood Playhouse and started the New Theatre Inc. with Hope Summers.
- From 1933 till 1936 he worked in Vienna, in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), and in Prague, where he directed operas. During these years he won praise from George Bernard Shaw, who liked his production of his play Too True to Be Good enough to call Magner an exception to his rule that "Youth is wasted on the young", and Sigmund Freud, who offered to train him as a lay psychoanalyst on the strength of a play about a psychiatrist. He declined.
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