Martin Landau
Born: 1928-06-20 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2017-07-15
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Prisoners in Space as Commander Koenig
2022
2020
2019
- Love, Antosha as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game as Abe
2017
- The Red Maple Leaf as Bernard Florence
2016
- A Fighting Chance as Martin Kramer
2014
- Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs as Rulon Jeffs
2013
- Meir's Festival as Self
- Anna Nicole as J. Howard Marshall
2012
- Frankenweenie as Mr. Rzykruski (voice)
2011
- Mysteria as Hotel Manager
- Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- Have a Little Faith as Rabbi Albert Lewis
2010
- Teenage Paparazzo as Self
- Ivory as Leon Spencer
- The Return of Victor Bergman as Commander John Koenig (archive footage)
2009
- 9 as #2 (voice)
- Lovely, Still as Robert
- A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self
- A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics as Self
2008
- In Plain Sight as Joseph Thomas / Joseph Tancredi
- City of Ember as Sul
- Billy: The Early Years as Old Charles Templeton
- David & Fatima as Rabbi Schmulic
- Harrison Montgomery as Harrison Montgomery
2007
- Brando as Self
2006
- The Evidence as Dr. Sol Goldman
- An Existential Affair as The Wedding Doctor
2005
- Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool as Self
- James Dean: Sense Memories as Self
- Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
2004
- Entourage as Bob Ryan
- The Aryan Couple as Joseph Krauzenberg
- Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self
- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild as Self
- Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% as Self
- Ed Wood: Making Bela as Self / Bela Lugosi
2003
- The Commission as Sen. Richard Russell
- Wake as Older Sebastian Riven
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- Hollywood Homicide as Jerry Duran
2002
- Without a Trace as Frank Malone
- Shanghai Ghetto as Narrator
2001
- The Majestic as Harry Trimble
- Haven as Papa Gruber
- Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
- Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self
- Contender: Mastering the Method as Self
2000
- Ready to Rumble as Sal Bandini
- In the Beginning as Abraham
- Shiner as Frank Spedding
- Very Mean Men as Mr. White
- Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' as Self
1999
- Sleepy Hollow as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)
- The Joyriders as Gordon Trout
- Bonanno: A Godfather's Story as Joseph Bonanno, age 94
- EDtv as Al
- Carlo's Wake as Carlo Torello
- The New Adventures of Pinocchio as Geppetto
1998
- Rounders as Abe Petrovsky
- The X-Files as Kurtzweil
- Steve McQueen: The King of Cool as Self
- The Elevator as Roy Tilden
- Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's as Self
1997
- B.A.P.S as Mr. Donald Blakemore
- The Long Way Home as (voice)
- Merry Christmas, George Bailey as Pa Bailey / Mr. Potter
- Legend of the Spirit Dog as Storyteller
1996
- City Hall as Judge Walter Stern
- The Adventures of Pinocchio as Geppetto
- E! True Hollywood Story
1994
- Spider-Man as Mac Gargan / Scorpion (voice)
- Ed Wood as Bela Lugosi
- Intersection as Neal
- Time is Money as Mac
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Sliver as Alex Parsons
- 12:01 as Dr. Thadius Moxley
- Eye of the Stranger as Mayor Howard Bains
1992
- No Place to Hide as Frank McCoy
- Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story as Jerry Gertz
- Mistress as Jack Roth
- Legacy of Lies
1991
- Firehead as Adm. Pendleton
- Secrets of the Unknown as Narrator
- Echoes That Remain as Narrator (voice)
1990
- By Dawn's Early Light as President
- Paint It Black as Daniel Lambert
- The Color of Evening as Max Loeb
- Max and Helen as Simon Wiesenthal
1989
- The Simpsons as The Great Raymondo (voice)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors as Judah Rosenthal
- The Neon Empire as Max
- The Neon Empire as Max
1988
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Abe
- Run If You Can as Malvani
- Real Bullets as Sallini
1987
- Cyclone as Bosarian
- Sweet Revenge as Cicero
- The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman as Lyle Stenning
- Empire State as Chuck
- Delta Fever as Bud
- W.A.R.: Women Against Rape as Judge Shaw
1986
- Treasure Island as The Captain
- Kung Fu: The Movie as John Martin Perkins III
- Blacke's Magic
1985
- The Twilight Zone as William Cooper-Janes (segment "The Beacon")
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Wallace Garrison
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Al Drake
- Access Code as Agency Head
1983
- The Being as Garson Jones
- Buffalo Bill as Hayden Stone
- Trial by Terror
1982
- Hotel
- Matt Houston
- Cosmic Princess as Commander John Koenig
- Alone in the Dark as Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
- Journey Through the Black Sun as Commander John Koenig
1981
- The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island as J.J. Pierson
1980
- The Return as Niles Buchanan
- Alien Attack as Commander John Koenig
- Without Warning as Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs
1979
- Meteor as General Adlon
- The Death of Ocean View Park as Tom Flood
- The Last Word as Captain Garrity
- The Fall of the House of Usher as Roderick Usher
1978
- Destination Moonbase-Alpha as Commander John Koenig
1977
- Aliens from Spaceship Earth as Self
1976
- Shadows in an Empty Room as Dr. George Tracer
1975
- Space: 1999 as John Koenig
- Space: 1999 as John Koenig
1973
- Savage as Paul Savage
1972
- Black Gunn as Capelli
- Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol as Johnny Bristol
1971
- Columbo as Dexter Paris / Norman Paris
- A Town Called Bastard as The Colonel
1970
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs! as Logan Sharpe
- Operation Snafu as Joe Mellone
1969
- Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob as Rollin Hard
- Mission: Impossible - The Bunker as Rollin Hand
- The Mama Cass Television Program as Self
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters
- Mission: Impossible - The Slave as Rollin Hand
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Rollin Hand
- Nevada Smith as Jesse Coe
1965
- The Wild Wild West
- Get Smart as Maxwell Smart (uncredited)
- The Big Valley as Mariano Montoya
- Branded as Edwin Booth
- I Spy as Danny Preston
- The Greatest Story Ever Told as Caiaphas
- The Hallelujah Trail as Chief Walks-Stooped-Over
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Count Ladislaus Zark
- The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre as Nelson Orion
1963
- The Outer Limits as Andro
- Cleopatra as Rufio
- Mr. Novak as Victor Rand
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- Decision at Midnight
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Ned Murray
- Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock as Dade Coleman
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Defenders as Dr. Daniel Orren
1960
- The Gazebo as The Duke
- Outlaws
- The Tall Man
- The Islanders as Arnie
- Tate
1959
- Bonanza as Emeliano
- The Twilight Zone as Dan Hotaling
- The Untouchables as Jerry Fanning
- Adventures in Paradise as Sacheveral Sackett
- Johnny Ringo as Wes Tymon
- North by Northwest as Leonard
- The Detectives
- Johnny Staccato
- Pork Chop Hill as Lt. Marshall
- The Lawless Years
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Khorba
- Lawman
1957
- Maverick as Mike Manning
1955
- Gunsmoke as Thorp
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as Apache Indian
1952
- Omnibus as Jokanaan / John the Baptist
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee