
Martin Landau
Known for Acting · 199 credits
- Born
- 1928-06-20
- Died
- 2017-07-15
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Martin James Landau · مارتین لانداو
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (58)

The Simpsons
1989
as The Great Raymondo (voice)

Columbo
1971
as Dexter Paris / Norman Paris

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

Without a Trace
2002
as Frank Malone

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Al Drake

Bonanza
1959
as Emeliano

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

Entourage
2004
as Bob Ryan

Maverick
1957
as Mike Manning

Mission: Impossible
1966
as Rollin Hand / Rollin Hand / General Rio Dominguez

The Rifleman
1958

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Ned Murray

Get Smart
1965
as Maxwell Smart (uncredited)

The Twilight Zone
1959
as Dan Hotaling / Major Ivan Kuchenko

Lawman
1958
as Bob Ford

The Carol Burnett Show
1967
as Self - Guest / Various Characters

Hotel
1982
as Russell Slocum

The Untouchables
1959
as Jerry Fanning / Larry Coombs

The Twilight Zone
1985
as William Cooper-Janes (segment "The Beacon")

The Wild Wild West
1965
as General Grimm

The Big Valley
1965
as Mariano Montoya

Spider-Man
1994
as Mac Gargan / Scorpion (voice)

The Defenders
1961
as Dr. Daniel Orren

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Khorba

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Wallace Garrison

The Outer Limits
1963
as Andro / Richard Bellero

Gunsmoke
1955
as Thorp / Britton

Omnibus
1952
as Jokanaan / John the Baptist

Adventures in Paradise
1959
as Sacheveral Sackett / Miller

Matt Houston
1982

The Oscars
1953
as Self

In Plain Sight
2008
as Joseph Thomas / Joseph Tancredi

Space: 1999
1975
as John Koenig

The Detectives
1959

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self (uncredited)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Count Ladislaus Zark

Branded
1965
as Edwin Booth

The Tall Man
1960

I Spy
1965
as Danny Preston

Mr. Novak
1963
as Victor Rand / Robert Coolidge

Outlaws
1960

Johnny Ringo
1959
as Wes Tymon
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963

The Islanders
1960
as Arnie

The Lawless Years
1959

Johnny Staccato
1959

Blacke's Magic
1986

Buffalo Bill
1983
as Hayden Stone

The Evidence
2006
as Dr. Sol Goldman

General Electric Theater
1953
as Apache Indian

Tate
1960

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

In the Beginning
2000
as Abraham

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Special for Women
1960
as The Accused

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Joseph
1995
as Jacob

The Neon Empire
1989
as Max
Movies (141)

Sliver
1993
as Alex Parsons

9
2009
as #2 (voice)

Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)

Rounders
1998
as Abe Petrovsky

Cleopatra
1963
as Rufio

Frankenweenie
2012
as Mr. Rzykruski (voice)

The X-Files
1998
as Kurtzweil

North by Northwest
1959
as Leonard

The Majestic
2001
as Harry Trimble

City of Ember
2008
as Sul

Entourage
2015
as Bob Ryan

Ed Wood
1994
as Bela Lugosi

Joseph
1995
as Jacob

City Hall
1996
as Judge Walter Stern

Nevada Smith
1966
as Jesse Coe

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Caiaphas

Meteor
1979
as General Adlon

The Return
1980
as Niles Buchanan

Hollywood Homicide
2003
as Jerry Duran

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as Judah Rosenthal

Ready to Rumble
2000
as Sal Bandini

EDtv
1999
as Al
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001
as Self

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Abe

Haven
2001
as Papa Gruber

Remember
2015
as Max Rosenbaum

The Gazebo
1959
as The Duke

Intersection
1994
as Neal

Mistress
1992
as Jack Roth

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
as Geppetto

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
as Logan Sharpe

Pork Chop Hill
1959
as Lt. Marshall

B.A.P.S
1997
as Mr. Donald Blakemore

Without Warning
1980
as Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self

Love, Antosha
2019
as Self (archive footage)

Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
as Self

The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1987
as Lyle Stenning

The Commission
2003
as Sen. Richard Russell

Alone in the Dark
1982
as Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
Lethal Victims
1987
as Judge Shaw

By Dawn's Early Light
1990
as President

The Hallelujah Trail
1965
as Chief Walks-Stooped-Over

A Town Called Bastard
1971
as The Colonel

Brando
2007
as Self

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
1999
as Joseph Bonanno, age 94

Teenage Paparazzo
2010
as Self

Savage
1973
as Paul Savage

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1992
as Jerry Gertz

Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs
2014
as Rulon Jeffs

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
as Self

Black Gunn
1972
as Capelli

Shiner
2000
as Frank Spedding

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
1981
as J.J. Pierson

12:01
1993
as Dr. Thadius Moxley

No Place to Hide
1992
as Frank McCoy

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001
as Self

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
1998
as Self

Mysteria
2011
as Hotel Manager

Have a Little Faith
2011
as Rabbi Albert Lewis

Kung Fu: The Movie
1986
as John Martin Perkins III

Firehead
1991
as Adm. Pendleton

The Red Maple Leaf
2017
as Bernard Florence

Harrison Montgomery
2008
as Harrison Montgomery

Lovely, Still
2009
as Robert

The Long Way Home
1997
as (voice)

Merry Christmas, George Bailey
1997
as Pa Bailey / Mr. Potter

Empire State
1987
as Chuck

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005
as Self

Delta Fever
1987
as Bud

Max and Helen
1990
as Simon Wiesenthal

Sweet Revenge
1987
as Cicero

Very Mean Men
2000
as Mr. White

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
as Self

The Neon Empire
1989
as Max

Shadows in an Empty Room
1976
as Dr. George Tracer

The Being
1983
as Garson Jones

W.A.R.: Women Against Rape
1987
as Judge Shaw

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob
1969
as Rollin Hard

Cyclone
1987
as Bosarian

Alien Attack
1980
as Commander John Koenig

Space: 1999
1975
as John Koenig

The Last Word
1979
as Captain Garrity

The Joyriders
1999
as Gordon Trout

Billy: The Early Years
2008
as Old Charles Templeton

Mission: Impossible - Old Man Out
1966
as Rollin Hand

Journey Through the Black Sun
1982
as Commander John Koenig

Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
as Self

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972
as Johnny Bristol

Real Bullets
1988
as Sallini

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers
2009
as Self

Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood
2020
as Self

The Aryan Couple
2004
as Joseph Krauzenberg
A Fighting Chance
2016
as Martin Kramer

The Elevator
1998
as Roy Tilden

Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!%
2004
as Self

Aliens from Spaceship Earth
1977
as Self

The Death of Ocean View Park
1979
as Tom Flood

Without Ward
2022

Operation Snafu
1970
as Joe Mellone

Mission: Impossible - The Slave
1967
as Rollin Hand

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
1964
as Nelson Orion

Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
2018
as Abe

The Color of Evening
1990
as Max Loeb

Paint It Black
1990
as Daniel Lambert

Treasure Island
1986
as The Captain

Ed Wood: Making Bela
2004
as Self / Bela Lugosi

Cosmic Princess
1982
as Commander John Koenig

Decision at Midnight
1963
as Nils

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000
as Self

Destination Moonbase-Alpha
1978
as Commander John Koenig

Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit
2025
as Self

Ivory
2010
as Leon Spencer

Time is Money
1994
as Mac
Steve McQueen: The King of Cool
1998
as Self

Run If You Can
1988
as Malvani

Mission: Impossible - The Bunker
1969
as Rollin Hand

Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood
2004
as Self (archive footage)

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
2009
as Self
Meir's Festival
2013
as Self
About Martin Landau
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… With 199 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, Martin Landau has appeared in 141 films and 58 TV shows.
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Most Popular Martin Landau Movies
- Sliver (1993) — as Alex Parsons
- 9 (2009) — as #2 (voice)
- Sleepy Hollow (1999) — as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)
- Rounders (1998) — as Abe Petrovsky
- Cleopatra (1963) — as Rufio
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