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Alan Hewitt, who played the role of Detective Brennan in the TV series, My Favorite Martian, was born in January 21 1915 in New York City.

A member of the Dartmouth Players, he appeared in 14 plays during his 4 years at the College. Graduating from Dartmouth College, he joined the Actors' Equity Association.

In 1935, he made his Broadway debut with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Hewitt appeared in several other Lunt-Fontanne productions, developing a lifelong friendship with the Lunts.

Hewitt appeared in the original production of Death of a Salesman, Call Me Madam, Ondine, and Inherit the Wind. His films include A Private's Affair (1959), That Touch of Mink (1962), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), How To Murder Your Wife (1964), Sweet Charity (1968) and The Barefoot Executive (1970). Hewitt performed in made-for-TV movies and specials such as The Pueblo Affair (ABC, 1974) and The Adams Chronicles (PBS, 1976).

In 1940, he was elected to the Council of the Actors' Equity Association. Serving on several committees over the years, in 1948 he devised a system of analyzing employment figures for Equity members that remains useful to this day. In 1940, he also appeared in The Walrus and the Carpenter and Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down, an anti-Nazi war story.

In 1956, he played Thomas Jefferson in a Ford Foundation TV special. Hewitt had a continuing role as Detective Bill Brennan on My Favorite Martian for the second and third seasons.

In 1981, he was appointed chairman of the Executive Committee of the Actors' Fund. Hewitt died on November 7 1986 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. The Dartmouth College Library received Hewitt's papers and books as a gift of Hewitt's estate.

Further information is available at ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml66.html.