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.

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Known For

The Simpsons

The Great Raymondo (voice)

Sleepy Hollow

Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)

North by Northwest

Leonard

#2 (voice)

Frankenweenie

Mr. Rzykruski (voice)

Ed Wood

Bela Lugosi

Rounders

Abe Petrovsky

City of Ember

Sul

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Prisoners in Space MOVIE	Commander Koenig
2025	Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit MOVIE	Self
2022	Without Ward MOVIE	Self
2020	Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood MOVIE	Self
2019	Love, Antosha MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game MOVIE	Abe
2017	The Red Maple Leaf MOVIE	Bernard Florence
2016	A Fighting Chance MOVIE	Martin Kramer
2015	Remember MOVIE	Max Rosenbaum
2015	Entourage MOVIE	Bob Ryan
2014	Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs MOVIE	Rulon Jeffs
2013	Meir's Festival MOVIE	Self
2013	Anna Nicole MOVIE	J. Howard Marshall
2012	Frankenweenie MOVIE	Mr. Rzykruski (voice)
2011	Have a Little Faith MOVIE	Rabbi Albert Lewis
2011	Woody Allen: A Documentary MOVIE	Self
2011	Mysteria MOVIE	Hotel Manager
2010	Teenage Paparazzo MOVIE	Self
2010	The Return of Victor Bergman MOVIE	Commander John Koenig (archive footage)
2010	Ivory MOVIE	Leon Spencer
2009	A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics MOVIE	Self
2009	Lovely, Still MOVIE	Robert
2009	A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers MOVIE	Self
2009	9 MOVIE	#2 (voice)
2008	Billy: The Early Years MOVIE	Old Charles Templeton
2008	City of Ember MOVIE	Sul
2008	David & Fatima MOVIE	Rabbi Schmulic
2008	In Plain Sight TV	Joseph Thomas / Joseph Tancredi
2008	Harrison Montgomery MOVIE	Harrison Montgomery
2007	Brando MOVIE	Self
2006	An Existential Affair MOVIE	The Wedding Doctor
2006	The Evidence TV	Dr. Sol Goldman
2005	Hollywood's Greatest Villains MOVIE	Self
2005	Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool MOVIE	Self
2005	James Dean: Sense Memories MOVIE	Self
2004	The Aryan Couple MOVIE	Joseph Krauzenberg
2004	Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% MOVIE	Self
2004	Ed Wood: Making Bela MOVIE	Self / Bela Lugosi
2004	Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild MOVIE	Self
2004	Entourage TV	Bob Ryan
2004	Cary Grant: A Class Apart MOVIE	Self
2003	Wake MOVIE	Older Sebastian Riven
2003	The Commission MOVIE	Sen. Richard Russell
2003	Hollywood Homicide MOVIE	Jerry Duran
2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There MOVIE	Self
2002	Without a Trace TV	Frank Malone
2002	Shanghai Ghetto MOVIE	Narrator
2001	The Majestic MOVIE	Harry Trimble
2001	Contender: Mastering the Method MOVIE	Self
2001	Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored MOVIE	Self
2001	Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood MOVIE	Self
2001	Haven MOVIE	Papa Gruber
2000	In the Beginning TV	Abraham
2000	Shiner MOVIE	Frank Spedding
2000	Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' MOVIE	Self
2000	Very Mean Men MOVIE	Mr. White
2000	Ready to Rumble MOVIE	Sal Bandini
1999	Sleepy Hollow MOVIE	Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)
1999	The New Adventures of Pinocchio MOVIE	Geppetto
1999	Bonanno: A Godfather's Story MOVIE	Joseph Bonanno, age 94
1999	The Joyriders MOVIE	Gordon Trout
1999	EDtv MOVIE	Al
1999	Carlo's Wake MOVIE	Carlo Torello
1998	Rounders MOVIE	Abe Petrovsky
1998	The X-Files MOVIE	Kurtzweil
1998	Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's MOVIE	Self
1998	The Elevator MOVIE	Roy Tilden
1998	Steve McQueen: The King of Cool MOVIE	Self
1997	Merry Christmas, George Bailey MOVIE	Pa Bailey / Mr. Potter
1997	The Long Way Home MOVIE	(voice)
1997	Legend of the Spirit Dog MOVIE	Storyteller
1997	B.A.P.S MOVIE	Mr. Donald Blakemore
1996	E! True Hollywood Story TV	Self
1996	The Adventures of Pinocchio MOVIE	Geppetto
1996	City Hall MOVIE	Judge Walter Stern
1995	Joseph TV	Jacob
1995	Joseph MOVIE	Jacob
1994	Spider-Man TV	Mac Gargan / Scorpion (voice)
1994	Spider-Man TV	Scorpion (voice)
1994	Time is Money MOVIE	Mac
1994	Ed Wood MOVIE	Bela Lugosi
1994	Inside the Actors Studio TV	Self
1994	Intersection MOVIE	Neal
1993	12:01 MOVIE	Dr. Thadius Moxley
1993	Sliver MOVIE	Alex Parsons
1993	Eye of the Stranger MOVIE	Mayor Howard Bains
1992	No Place to Hide MOVIE	Frank McCoy
1992	Mistress MOVIE	Jack Roth
1992	Legacy of Lies MOVIE	Self
1992	Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story MOVIE	Jerry Gertz
1991	Echoes That Remain MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1991	Firehead MOVIE	Adm. Pendleton
1991	Secrets of the Unknown MOVIE	Narrator
1990	The Color of Evening MOVIE	Max Loeb
1990	By Dawn's Early Light MOVIE	President
1990	Paint It Black MOVIE	Daniel Lambert
1990	Max and Helen MOVIE	Simon Wiesenthal
1989	The Simpsons TV	The Great Raymondo (voice)
1989	The Neon Empire MOVIE	Max
1989	The Neon Empire TV	Max
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors MOVIE	Judah Rosenthal
1988	Run If You Can MOVIE	Malvani
1988	Tucker: The Man and His Dream MOVIE	Abe
1988	Real Bullets MOVIE	Sallini
1987	Delta Fever MOVIE	Bud
1987	Cyclone MOVIE	Bosarian
1987	The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman MOVIE	Lyle Stenning
1987	Empire State MOVIE	Chuck
1987	Sweet Revenge MOVIE	Cicero
1987	W.A.R.: Women Against Rape MOVIE	Judge Shaw
1987	Lethal Victims MOVIE	Judge Shaw
1986	Kung Fu: The Movie MOVIE	John Martin Perkins III
1986	Blacke's Magic TV	Self
1986	Treasure Island MOVIE	The Captain
1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV	Wallace Garrison
1985	The Twilight Zone TV	William Cooper-Janes (segment "The Beacon")
1984	Murder, She Wrote TV	Al Drake
1984	Access Code MOVIE	Agency Head
1983	The Being MOVIE	Garson Jones
1983	Buffalo Bill TV	Hayden Stone
1983	Trial by Terror MOVIE	Self
1982	Cosmic Princess MOVIE	Commander John Koenig
1982	Alone in the Dark MOVIE	Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
1982	Matt Houston TV	Self
1982	Journey Through the Black Sun MOVIE	Commander John Koenig
1982	Hotel TV	Self
1981	The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island MOVIE	J.J. Pierson
1980	Without Warning MOVIE	Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs
1980	Alien Attack MOVIE	Commander John Koenig
1980	The Return MOVIE	Niles Buchanan
1979	Meteor MOVIE	General Adlon
1979	The Death of Ocean View Park MOVIE	Tom Flood
1979	The Last Word MOVIE	Captain Garrity
1979	The Fall of the House of Usher MOVIE	Roderick Usher
1978	Destination Moonbase-Alpha MOVIE	Commander John Koenig
1977	Aliens from Spaceship Earth MOVIE	Self
1976	Shadows in an Empty Room MOVIE	Dr. George Tracer
1975	Space: 1999 TV	John Koenig
1975	Space: 1999 MOVIE	John Koenig
1973	Savage MOVIE	Paul Savage
1972	Black Gunn MOVIE	Capelli
1972	Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol MOVIE	Johnny Bristol
1971	A Town Called Bastard MOVIE	The Colonel
1971	Columbo TV	Dexter Paris / Norman Paris
1970	They Call Me Mister Tibbs! MOVIE	Logan Sharpe
1970	Operation Snafu MOVIE	Joe Mellone
1969	The Mama Cass Television Program MOVIE	Self
1969	Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob MOVIE	Rollin Hard
1969	Mission: Impossible - The Bunker MOVIE	Rollin Hand
1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV	Self (uncredited)
1967	Mission: Impossible - The Slave MOVIE	Rollin Hand
1967	The Carol Burnett Show TV	Self - Guest / Various Characters
1966	Mission: Impossible - Old Man Out MOVIE	Rollin Hand
1966	Mission: Impossible TV	Rollin Hand
1966	Mission: Impossible TV	Rollin Hand / General Rio Dominguez
1966	Nevada Smith MOVIE	Jesse Coe
1965	Get Smart TV	Maxwell Smart (uncredited)
1965	The Wild Wild West TV	Self
1965	I Spy TV	Danny Preston
1965	The Big Valley TV	Mariano Montoya
1965	The Hallelujah Trail MOVIE	Chief Walks-Stooped-Over
1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told MOVIE	Caiaphas
1965	Branded TV	Edwin Booth
1964	The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre MOVIE	Nelson Orion
1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. TV	Count Ladislaus Zark
1963	Decision at Midnight MOVIE	Self
1963	Mr. Novak TV	Victor Rand
1963	Mr. Novak TV	Robert Coolidge
1963	The Greatest Show on Earth TV	Self
1963	The Outer Limits TV	Andro
1963	The Outer Limits TV	Richard Bellero
1963	Cleopatra MOVIE	Rufio
1962	Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock MOVIE	Dade Coleman
1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour TV	Ned Murray
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self
1961	The Defenders TV	Dr. Daniel Orren
1960	The Islanders TV	Arnie
1960	Outlaws TV	Self
1960	The Tall Man TV	Self
1960	Tate TV	Self
1960	The Gazebo MOVIE	The Duke
1959	The Detectives TV	Self
1959	The Untouchables TV	Jerry Fanning
1959	The Untouchables TV	Larry Coombs
1959	Adventures in Paradise TV	Sacheveral Sackett
1959	Adventures in Paradise TV	Miller
1959	The Twilight Zone TV	Dan Hotaling
1959	The Twilight Zone TV	Major Ivan Kuchenko
1959	Johnny Ringo TV	Wes Tymon
1959	Bonanza TV	Emeliano
1959	Johnny Staccato TV	Self
1959	North by Northwest MOVIE	Leonard
1959	Pork Chop Hill MOVIE	Lt. Marshall
1959	The Lawless Years TV	Self
1958	Lawman TV	Self
1958	The Rifleman TV	Self
1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive TV	Khorba
1957	Maverick TV	Mike Manning
1955	Gunsmoke TV	Thorp
1955	Gunsmoke TV	Britton
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1953	General Electric Theater TV	Apache Indian
1952	Omnibus TV	Jokanaan / John the Baptist
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Nominee

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