Martin Landau Dead: 'Ed Wood,' 'Mission: Impossible' Actor Was 8. Martin Landau, the all- purpose actor who showcased his versatility as a master of disguise on the Mission: Impossible TV series and as a broken- down Bela Lugosi in his Oscar- winning performance in Ed Wood, has died. He was 8. 9. Landau, who shot to fame by playing a homosexual henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's 1. North by Northwest, died Saturday of "unexpected complications" after a brief stay at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, his rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. After he quit CBS' Mission: Impossible after three seasons in 1.
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Landau's career was on the rocks until he was picked by Francis Ford Coppola to play Abe Karatz, the business partner of visionary automaker Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges), in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1. Landau received a best supporting actor nomination for that performance, then backed it up the following year with another nom for starring as Judah Rosenthal, an ophthalmologist who has his mistress (Anjelica Huston) killed, in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1. Landau lost out on Oscar night to Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington, respectively, in those years but finally prevailed for his larger- than- life portrayal of horror- movie legend Lugosi in the biopic Ed Wood (1. Tim Burton. Landau also starred as Commander John Koenig in the 1. Space: 1. 99. 9, opposite his Mission: Impossible co- star Barbara Bain, his wife from 1. A former newspaper cartoonist, Landau turned down the role of Mr. Spock on the NBC series Star Trek, which went to Leonard Nimoy (who later effectively replaced Landau on Mission: Impossible after Trek was canceled).
The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV. His résumé includes 'Mission: Impossible,' 'Tucker: The Man and His Dream' and 'North by Northwest.' It does not, however, include 'Star Trek.' Martin Landau, the. Discovery Education ignites student curiosity and inspires educators to reimagine learning with award-winning digital content and professional development. Sir Billi Full Movie In English there.
Landau also was an admired acting teacher who taught the craft to the likes of Jack Nicholson. And in the 1. 95.
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Landau was born in Brooklyn on June 2. At age 1. 7, he landed a job as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News, but he turned down a promotion and quit five years later to pursue acting."It was an impulsive move on my part to do that," Landau told The Jewish Journal in 2. To become an actor was a dream I must've had so deeply and so strongly because I left a lucrative, well- paying job that I could do well to become an unemployed actor. It's crazy if you think about it. To this day, I can still hear my mother's voice saying, 'You did what?!'"In 1. Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio (choosing a scene from Clifford Odets' Clash by Night against the advice of friends), and he and Steve Mc.
Queen were the only new students accepted that year out of the 2,0. With his dark hair and penetrating blue eyes, Landau found success on New York stages in Goat Song, Stalag 1. First Love. Hitchcock caught his performance on opening night opposite Edward G. Robinson in a road production of Middle of the Night, the first Broadway play written by Paddy Chayefsky, and cast him as the killer Leonard in North by Northwest. Watch Stuck In Love Online Flashx there. In Middle of the Night, "I played a very macho guy, 1. Leonard, who I chose to play as a homosexual — very subtly — because he wanted to get rid of Eva Marie Saint with such a vengeance," he recalled in a 2.
As the ally of James Mason and nemesis of Saint and Cary Grant, Landau plummets to his death off Mount Rushmore in the movie's climactic scene. With his slick, sinister gleam and calculating demeanor, he attracted the notice of producers and directors. He went on to perform for such top directors as Joseph L. Mankiewicz in Cleopatra (1.
George Stevens in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1. John Sturges in The Hallelujah Trail (1. Henry Hathaway in Nevada Smith (1. Landau met Bruce Geller, the eventual creator of Mission: Impossible, when he invited the writer to an acting class. Bain was in the class as well, and Geller wrote for them the parts of spies Rollin Hand and Cinnamon Carter. Landau earned an Emmy nomination for each of his three seasons on the series. He could have starred in another series."I turned down Star Trek.
It would've been torturous," he said during a 2. PBS documentary series Pioneers of Television. I would've probably died playing that role. I mean, even the thought of it now upsets me. It was the antithesis of why I became an actor. I mean, to play a character that Lenny [Nimoy] was better suited for, frankly, a guy who speaks in a monotone who never gets excited, never has any guilt, never has any fear or was affected on a visceral level. Who wants to do that?"Landau found a kindred spirit in Burton, who also cast him in Sleepy Hollow (1.
Vincent Price- like science teacher in the horror- movie homage Frankenweenie (2. Tim and I don't finish a sentence," Landau told the Los Angeles Times in 2. There's something oddly kinesthetic about it. We kind of understand each other."Landau played puppet master Geppetto in a pair of Pinocchio films and appeared in other films including Pork Chop Hill (1. City Hall (1. 99.
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Lovely, Still (2. Mysteria (2. 01. 1). On television, he starred in the Twilight Zone episodes "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" and "The Jeopardy Room," played the title role in the 1.
Showtime telefilm Bonnano: A Godfather's Story and could be found on The Untouchables, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Maverick, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, I Spy and The Man From U. N. C. L. E. More recently, Landau earned Emmy noms for playing the father of Anthony La.
Paglia's character on CBS' Without a Trace and guest- starring as an out- of- touch movie producer on HBO's Entourage. He portrayed billionaire J. Howard Marshall, the 9. Anna Nicole Smith, in a 2.
Lifetime biopic about the sex symbol, and starred for Atom Egoyan opposite Christopher Plummer in Remember (2. And Landau appeared opposite Paul Sorvino in The Last Poker Game, which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival."If one could examine his DNA, it would read ACTOR," Bain said in a statement. He embraced every role with fire and fierce dedication. Playing Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood was his loving tribute to all actors and garnered him a well- deserved Academy Award.
His work was his joy and his legacy."Landau worked as director, teacher and executive director at the Actors Studio West. He has been credited with helping to guide the talents of Huston, Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton in addition to Nicholson. A documentary about his life, An Actor's Actor: The Life of Martin Landau, is in the works. Survivors include his daughters Susie (a writer- producer) and Juliet (an actress- dancer) from his marriage to Bain; sons- in- law Roy and Deverill; sister Elinor; granddaughter Aria; and godson Dylan. Donations can be made to the Actors Studio West. TMZ first reported the news of Landau's death.