Stuart Margolin (born January 31, 1940) is an American film, theater,
and television actor and director who won two Emmy Awards for playing
Evelyn "Angel" Martin on the 1970s television series The Rockford
Files.Margolin played the recurring character Evelyn "Angel" Martin,
the shifty friend and former jailmate of Jim Rockford (played by James
Garner) on The Rockford Files, whose various cons and schemes usually
got Rockford in hot water.Other times Rockford would pay Angel to "hit
the streets" and discover information that would help solve a case.
Margolin won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor
in a Drama Series for this role, in 1979 and 1980; he is one of only
five actors to win this award twice for the same role.In 1969 Margolin
wrote and co-produced The Ballad of Andy Crocker, an ABC television
movie that was one of the first films to deal with the subject matter
of Vietnam veterans "coming home". He also had an uncredited role as
the Station Wagon Driver in Heroes, another story about Vietnam
veterans dealing with what we now refer to as PTSD.
and television actor and director who won two Emmy Awards for playing
Evelyn "Angel" Martin on the 1970s television series The Rockford
Files.Margolin played the recurring character Evelyn "Angel" Martin,
the shifty friend and former jailmate of Jim Rockford (played by James
Garner) on The Rockford Files, whose various cons and schemes usually
got Rockford in hot water.Other times Rockford would pay Angel to "hit
the streets" and discover information that would help solve a case.
Margolin won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor
in a Drama Series for this role, in 1979 and 1980; he is one of only
five actors to win this award twice for the same role.In 1969 Margolin
wrote and co-produced The Ballad of Andy Crocker, an ABC television
movie that was one of the first films to deal with the subject matter
of Vietnam veterans "coming home". He also had an uncredited role as
the Station Wagon Driver in Heroes, another story about Vietnam
veterans dealing with what we now refer to as PTSD.
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