Biography
Martin James Landau (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played regular roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award) and Space: 1999. Landau received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, as well as his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988); he received his second Oscar nomination for his performance in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994) earned him an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Landau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Mary Pickford Award · 2006
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1995
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1995 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1990 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1989 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood
The Twilight Zone
Spider-Man
Columbo
The Simpsons
North by Northwest
Get Smart
The Outer Limits
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Carol Burnett Show
Mission: Impossible
The Wild Wild West
Ed Wood
Murder, She Wrote
Bonanza
Love, Antosha
Remember
Entourage
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Without a Trace
Sleepy Hollow
In Plain Sight
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
The Long Way Home
Space: 1999
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Cleopatra
The Rifleman
Frankenweenie
Teenage Paparazzo
9
Rounders
Echoes That Remain
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Lawless Years
The X Files
The Gazebo
Maverick
The Majestic
Haven
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Nevada Smith
Pork Chop Hill
Gunsmoke
Lovely, Still
By Dawn's Early Light
I Spy
Have a Little Faith
City of Ember