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Martin Landau
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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.
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The Art of the Fall
From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...
8 films
The Many Faces We Wear
From classic Hollywood to French farce and beyond, a journey through cinema's most audacious transformations and borrowed identities.
7 films
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Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit
2025 · Self
Frankenweenie
2012 · Mr. Rzykruski (voice)
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Self
Hollywood Homicide
2003 · Jerry Duran
Shiner
2000 · Frank Spedding
EDtv
1999 · Al
Rounders
1998 · Abe Petrovsky
The X-Files
1998 · Kurtzweil
The Long Way Home
1997 · (voice)
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996 · Geppetto
City Hall
1996 · Judge Walter Stern
Ed Wood
1994 · Bela Lugosi
Intersection
1994 · Neal
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 · Judah Rosenthal
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988 · Abe
Meteor
1979 · General Adlon
Black Gunn
1972 · Capelli
Nevada Smith
1966 · Jesse Coe
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Caiaphas
North by Northwest
1959 · Leonard