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Only Murders in the Building Wiki. Only Murders in the Building is a comedic murder-mystery Hulu Original series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez. Three strangers (Charles-Haden Savage, Mabel Mora, and Oliver Putnam) share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
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Oliver Putnam is a main character in Only Murders in the...
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Helga Heino is a recurring character in Season 4 of Only...
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Only Murders in the Building is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman.The main plot focuses on a trio of strangers (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez), all with a shared interest in true crime podcasts, who become friends while investigating a succession of suspicious murders in the Arconia, their affluent Upper West ...
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Oliver Putnam is a main character in Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building. He is a struggling theater director and part of the podcast trio.
He is portrayed by Martin Short.
Directing Career
Oliver is a notorious theater director who created one of Broadway's largest flops. A perennial showman, his Arconia apartment was a salon to the city's most prestigious theater crowd but now sits as a time capsule to his past. Oliver searches for his next triumph while doting on his beloved bulldog, Winnie, and trying to reconnect with his estranged family. When a neighbor's death proves mysterious, Oliver senses a chance at redemption by starting a podcast with Charles and Mabel, two unlikely neighbors-turned-friends. Oliver met his wife Roberta during his first Off-Broadway show. They had a son, Will, who is a veterinarian, and has an unspecified number of children. Oliver finds out through a school project for his grandson that Will is, in fact, Greek and not Irish, as Oliver claimed, which leads them to worry that his biological father is actually Teddy.
Splash
Oliver directed a musical called Splash!. He had secured funding, but quickly went over the budget. When he had an idea to make the show even more grand by putting a pool into the stage floor, he went to Teddy to ask for more money. Teddy initially refused, but after Oliver gave an impassioned speech about how his persistence had gotten him far in life, Teddy agreed to give him the extra money. On the first night of previews, the set department was having trouble with the hydraulics that moved the floor, to which Oliver disregarded. At the end of Act One, the chorus dove down onto the floor instead of the projected pool, seriously injuring themselves. No one was killed, but since Oliver put his son's college fund into the show as an investment, which he lost when the show flopped following three bankruptcy filings and two insurance investigations, his wife, Roberta divorced him.
Meeting Charles and Mabel and Tim's Death
Oliver came home one day and retrieved some packages from Ursula. Then he went to go upstairs in an elevator. Charles and Mabel also rode with him. On the sixth floor, Tim Kono got on, arguing with someone on the phone about some packages, then got off three floors later. Oliver tried to talk to Mabel, but she ignored him, and he got off at his floor. Once home, Oliver fed his dog, Winnie, then settled in to listen to "All Is Not OK in Oklahoma", a true crime podcast by Cinda Canning. Just when the podcast got to a pivotal moment, the fire alarm went off, forcing Oliver to take Winnie and evacuate. Oliver went to Librizzi's, where he spotted Charles and approached him because all the tables were occupied. When he noticed Charles had a map of Chickasha, Oklahoma, Oliver realized he was a fan of "All Is Not OK in Oklahoma" and they bonded over being fans. When Oliver spotted Mabel coming in, he invited her to join them. She wasn't interested until she saw they were listening to the podcast and revealed she was a fan as well. The three of them ate together and talked about the podcast. Oliver tried to ask Mabel questions about her life, but Mabel refused to answer. Once they finished eating, Oliver left Charles to pay the bill, and they went back to the Arconia, where they saw police cars outside. They asked Lester, and he said a body was found on the ninth floor, a suspected suicide. Charles said he could get them to the freight elevator and Mabel said they should take it to the eighth floor because cops would be posted on the ninth. When they arrived on the ninth floor, they avoided the cops and got a look at the body. They realized it was Tim Kono, whom they remembered from the elevator. They were shocked to have seen him so soon before his death. Mabel didn't believe he killed himself because he didn't seem like he would when they saw him. Detective Donna Williams spotted them and asked if they were associated with the deceased. They told her they lived in the building and asked if she was sure it was suicide. She realized they were true crime junkies and told them it was a textbook suicide. Then she told them to leave and enjoy their lives. Later that night, Charles and Mabel individually remembered that Tim had gotten onto the elevator with a trash bag, which was odd because there's a trash chute on each floor. They met up with Oliver and went through the building's trash. While they searched, Oliver suggested making a podcast about the crime, reveling in the fact that they had an opportunity to be there from the start. He started recording on his phone. Mabel found in the trash what looked like drafts of Tim's suicide note. Dismayed, they agreed that was it. Oliver went home and wrapped several presents then went to his son, Will's house, saying the gifts were for his children. Will said the kids weren't there, but Oliver came inside, where he asked Will for some money, saying his next project wasn't coming. Will suggested he sell his apartment, but Oliver refused, saying it was all he had, a statement which hurt Will's feelings. Will invited Oliver to stay for Sunday dinner, but Oliver declined, saying he needed to get back. As he left, Oliver got some texts from Charles asking where he was and saying they found something. That something was an engagement ring, which was in the package Tim was talking about on the phone. Charles then began recording for the podcast. They decided they would meet up the next day and make a timeline. Charles had maps and blueprints to assist them. Oliver mentioned another death that had happened nearby and suggested multitasking, but Charles said they needed to focus on only murders in the building. Oliver liked the way that sounded and said it would be the title of the podcast. Oliver went home and looked as his bills, which were long past due.
Oliver is very funny, charismatic and upbeat, and loves to be in the center of attention. He is also fairly narcissistic and self-absorbed, and has an overinflated sense of his own importance. He is overly fixated on work, which caused the breakup of his marriage when he invested his son's college fund into his Broadway show, which then flopped. As...
Oliver has directed 212 stage shows, including "Splash! The Musical", "Everyone Can Whistle In The Rain", "and Newark! Newark!".
The following is a list of Oliver's known productions, with annotations:
••Everyone Can Whistle in the Rain (this title is an amalgam of "Anyone Can Whistle" by Stephen Sondheim and the Gene Kelly classic "Singin' In The Rain")
•Singin' In The Rain 2
•Hedda Gabler (starring Paula Abdul, a choreographer, dancer and television personality)
•The Elephant Man (featuring a real elephant)
•Oliver lives in Apartment 10D of the Arconia.
•Oliver owns a car called Aphrodite, which he bought in LA while filming "Singin' In The Rain 2". He pays for parking for Aphrodite at the Arconia, despite the fact that his driver's license expired 25 years ago.
•He used to have a parakeet called Bruce, who was female.
•Oliver is associated with the color purple and often wears purple or maroon clothes.
•He claims to have worked with Stephen Sondheim.
•Oliver once ended up on stage with magicians Penn and Teller in Las Vegas after having drunk too many cocktails.
[To a car driver who almost hit him] REALLY?! Do you not see this coat?!
– "True Crime", Season 1 (2021)
[To Ursula] Stay out of the theater if you want a life. Trust me.
– "True Crime", Season 1 (2021)
Oliver: What flavor do you have there?
Oscar Torres: Uh, vegan sea salt oil?
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Only Murders in the Building: Created by John Hoffman, Steve Martin. With Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Michael Cyril Creighton. Three strangers - who live in the same New York City apartment building and share an obsession with true crime - suddenly find themselves embroiled in a murder.
