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Martin Landau Bio
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Martin Landau
Although he may not be an A-list actor or that well-known, Martin Landau has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and received several Emmy Award nominations and other Academy Award nominations for his acting work.
Landau was quite popular in his time (mostly in the 1960s and ’70s) for playing memorable and starring roles in the hit T.V. series Mission: Impossible (from 1966 to 1969) and Space: 1999, from 1975 to 1977. His Golden Globe honor and Emmy nominations were given to him for Mission: Impossible.
Landau was born in New York on June 20, 1931. Inspired by Charlie Chaplin, he decided to pursue acting after first working as cartoonist for the New York Daily News when he was only 17. Before making his big Broadway debut in the show Middle of the Night in 1957 (when he was 26), Landau studied acting with fellow classmate and actor Steve McQueen at Actors Studio. His acting mentor, Lee Strasberg, encouraged Landau to expand his horizons and teach acting, and Landau has coached big-name actors and actresses such as Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston.
Martin moved from Broadway to film with a noteworthy appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest in 1959. He then garnered much of his critical acclaim for portraying a master of disguise in the T.V. series Mission: Impossible in the mid to late-60s alongside actress and wife at the time Barbara Bain. The couple moved from Mission to join forces with Barry Morse in the controversial sci-fi T.V. series Space: 1999 in the mid-70s, which was cancelled after only two seasons.
After the cancellation of Space: 1999 Martin Landau’s acting career began to wane, although he appeared in supporting roles in various films and T.V. programs with varied degrees of success. One such example is his appearance The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island in 1981.
Later that decade, Landau made a comeback with such films as Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) directed by Francis Ford Coppola, produced by George Lucas, and co-starring Jeff Bridges. This garnered him an Academy Award nomination, as did his performance in the following year’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, written and directed by Woody Allen (who also starred). Martin finally won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1994 biopic Ed Wood, a Tim Burton flick co-starring Johnny Depp and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Since then, Martin Landau has appeared in other films such as The X Files, Ready to Rumble, Sleepy Holly, The Majestic, and more recently, T.V. appearances in The Evidence and Entourage. Landau divorced wife Barbara Bain in 1993 after 36 years of marriage. They have two children together, Susan and Juliet.
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