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
- Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit as Self
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
- Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- Mysteria as Hotel Manager
- 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 Gigantic World of Epics as Self
- A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self
2008
- In Plain Sight as Joseph Thomas / Joseph Tancredi
- City of Ember as Sul
- David & Fatima as Rabbi Schmulic
- Harrison Montgomery as Harrison Montgomery
- Billy: The Early Years as Old Charles Templeton
2007
- Brando as Self
2006
- The Evidence as Dr. Sol Goldman
- An Existential Affair as The Wedding Doctor
2005
- Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
- Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool as Self
- James Dean: Sense Memories as Self
2004
- Entourage as Bob Ryan
- Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- The Aryan Couple as Joseph Krauzenberg
- Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild as Self
- Ed Wood: Making Bela as Self / Bela Lugosi
- Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self
- Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% as Self
2003
- Hollywood Homicide as Jerry Duran
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- Wake as Older Sebastian Riven
- The Commission as Sen. Richard Russell
2002
- Without a Trace as Frank Malone
- Shanghai Ghetto as Narrator
2001
- Haven as Papa Gruber
- The Majestic as Harry Trimble
- Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
- Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self
- Haven as Papa Gruber
- Contender: Mastering the Method as Self
2000
- In the Beginning as Abraham
- Ready to Rumble as Sal Bandini
- Very Mean Men as Mr. White
- Shiner as Frank Spedding
- Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' as Self
1999
- Sleepy Hollow as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)
- EDtv as Al
- Bonanno: A Godfather's Story as Joseph Bonanno, age 94
- Carlo's Wake as Carlo Torello
- The Joyriders as Gordon Trout
- The New Adventures of Pinocchio as Geppetto
1998
- Rounders as Abe Petrovsky
- The X-Files as Kurtzweil
- The Elevator as Roy Tilden
- Steve McQueen: The King of Cool as Self
- Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's as Self
1997
- B.A.P.S as Mr. Donald Blakemore
- Merry Christmas, George Bailey as Pa Bailey / Mr. Potter
- The Long Way Home as (voice)
- 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
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- Time is Money as Mac
1993
- Sliver as Alex Parsons
- 12:01 as Dr. Thadius Moxley
- Eye of the Stranger as Mayor Howard Bains
1992
- Mistress as Jack Roth
- Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story as Jerry Gertz
- No Place to Hide as Frank McCoy
- Legacy of Lies
1991
- Echoes That Remain as Narrator (voice)
- Firehead as Adm. Pendleton
- Secrets of the Unknown as Narrator
1990
- By Dawn's Early Light as President
- Max and Helen as Simon Wiesenthal
- Paint It Black as Daniel Lambert
- The Color of Evening as Max Loeb
1989
- The Simpsons as The Great Raymondo (voice)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors as Judah Rosenthal
- The Neon Empire as Max
- Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief as Self
- The Neon Empire as Max
1988
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Abe
- Real Bullets as Sallini
- Run If You Can as Malvani
1987
- Sweet Revenge as Cicero
- Empire State as Chuck
- Delta Fever as Bud
- The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman as Lyle Stenning
- Cyclone as Bosarian
- W.A.R.: Women Against Rape as Judge Shaw
- Lethal Victims as Judge Shaw
1986
- Blacke's Magic
- Kung Fu: The Movie as John Martin Perkins III
- Treasure Island as The Captain
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Wallace Garrison
- The Twilight Zone as William Cooper-Janes (segment "The Beacon")
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Al Drake
- Access Code as Agency Head
1983
- Buffalo Bill as Hayden Stone
- The Being as Garson Jones
- Trial by Terror
1982
- Hotel as Russell Slocum
- Matt Houston
- Alone in the Dark as Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
- Cosmic Princess as Commander John Koenig
- 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
- Without Warning as Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs
- Alien Attack as Commander John Koenig
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
- Mission: Impossible - Old Man Out as Rollin Hand
1965
- Get Smart as Maxwell Smart (uncredited)
- The Wild Wild West as General Grimm
- 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
- Mr. Novak as Victor Rand
- Cleopatra as Rufio
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- Decision at Midnight as Nils
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
- Outlaws
- The Tall Man
- The Islanders as Arnie
- Tate
- Special for Women as The Accused
1959
- Bonanza as Emeliano
- The Untouchables as Jerry Fanning
- The Twilight Zone as Dan Hotaling
- Johnny Ringo as Wes Tymon
- Adventures in Paradise as Sacheveral Sackett
- The Detectives
- North by Northwest as Leonard
- Johnny Staccato
- The Lawless Years
- Pork Chop Hill as Lt. Marshall
- The Gazebo as The Duke
1958
- The Rifleman
- Lawman as Bob Ford
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Khorba
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