Landau, Martin 1931(?)–

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LANDAU, Martin 1931(?)–

PERSONAL

Born June 20, 1931 (some sources say 1928), in Brooklyn, NY; son of Morris (a machinist) and Selma (maiden name, Buchanan) Landau; married Barbara Bain (an actress), January 31, 1957 (divorced, 1993); children: Susan Meredith (a producer), Juliet Rose (an actress). Education: Studied art at the Pratt Institute and Art Students League; trained for the stage with Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman, and Elia Kazan at Actors Studio.

Addresses: Office— 23717 Long Valley Rd., Calabasas, CA 91302–2409. Agent— Diverse Talent Group, 1875 Century Park East, Suite 2250, Los Angeles, CA 90067; Cunningham/Escott/Dipene & Associates, 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 140, Los Angeles, CA 90025. Publicist— Guttman Associates PR, 118 South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Actor and director. Actors Studio, member of board of directors, 1985—; Actors Studio West, executive director and teacher. Daily News, New York City, worked as an editorial artist and staff cartoonist; illustrator for Billy Rose's newspaper column "Pitching Horseshoes"; cartoonist for the comic strip "The Gumps."

Member: Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Awards, Honors: Emmy Award nominations, outstanding supporting actor in a dramatic series, 1967, 1968, 1969, and Golden Globe Award, best male television star, 1968, all for Mission: Impossible; Academy Award nomination, best supporting actor, and Golden Globe Award, best supporting actor in a motion picture, 1989, both for Tucker: The Man and His Dream; Academy Award nomination, best supporting actor, 1989, for Crimes and Misdemeanors; CableACE Award nominations, 1990, for Max and Helen and By Dawn's Early Light; Berlinale Camera Award, Berlin International Film Festival, 1990; CableACE Award nominations, 1992, for Legacy of Lies; Lifetime Achievement Award, Charleston Film Festival, 1994; Lifetime Achievement Award, Houston Film Festival, 1994; American Comedy Award, Chicago Film Critics Award, Boston Film Critics Award, Texas Film Critics Award, National Society of Film Critics Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, best supporting actor, 1994, Academy Award, best supporting actor, Screen Actors Guild Award, outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role, Golden Globe Award, best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture, Saturn Award, best actor, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, Southeastern Film Critics Association Award, best supporting actor, 1995, Film Award nomination, best performance by an actor in a supporting role, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, all for Ed Wood; Lifetime Achievement Award, San Diego Film Festival, 1998; also awarded Germany's Bravo Award, Belgium's Viewers Award, and Brazil's SACI Award; Moxie! Tribute Award, Santa Monica Film Festival, 2000; Star on the Walk of Fame, 2001.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Leonard, North by Northwest, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1959.

The duke, The Gazebo, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1959.

Lieutenant Marshall, Pork Chop Hill, United Artists, 1959.

Dade Coleman, Stagecoach to Dancer's Rock, Universal, 1962.

Rufio, Cleopatra, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1963.

Decision at Midnight, 1963.

Caiaphas, The Greatest Story Ever Told (also known as George Stevens Presents the Greatest Story Ever Told ), United Artists, 1965.

Chief Walks–Stooped–Over, The Hallelujah Trail, United Artists, 1965.

Jesse Coe, Nevada Smith, Paramount, 1966.

Rollin Hand, Mission Impossible versus the Mob, 1968.

(Uncredited) Indian in televised movie, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, 1968.

Reverend Logan Sharpe, They Call Me Mister Tibbs, United Artists, 1970.

Joe Mellone, Operation SNAFU (also known as Rosolino Paterno: Soldato, Situation Normal, All Fouled Up, and Situation Normal: A.F.U. ), American International Pictures, 1970.

Under the Sign of Capricorn, 1971.

The colonel, A Town Called Hell (also known as A Town Called Bastard and Una ciudad llamada Bastarda ), Scotia International, 1971.

Capelli, Black Gunn, Columbia, 1972.

Dr. George Tracer, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room (also known as Shadows in an Empty Room, A Special Magnum for Tony Saitta, Una magnum special per Tony Saitta, .44 Special, Tough Tony Saitta, and Blazing Magnums ), American International Pictures, 1977.

Captain Garrity, The Last Word (also known as Danny Travis ), International, 1979.

General Barry Adlon, Meteor, American International Pictures, 1979.

Niles Buchanan, The Return (also known as The Alien's Return and Earthright ), Greydon Clark, 1980.

Fred "Sarge" Dobbs, Without Warning (also known as It Came without Warning, Alien Warning, and The Warning), Filmways, 1980.

Operation Moonbase Alpha, 1980.

Beauty and the Beast, 1981.

Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff, Alone in the Dark, New Line Cinema, 1982.

Garson Jones, The Being (also known as Easter Sunday, Freak, and The Pottsville Horror ), BFV, 1983.

Trial by Terror, 1983.

Access Code, Prism Entertainment, 1984.

(In archive footage) Preacher in Alone in the Dark, Terror in the Aisles (also known as Time for Terror ), 1984.

The old captain, L'ile au tresor (also known as Treasure Island ), Films du Passage/Cannon, 1985.

Bosarian, Cyclone, Cinetel, 1987.

Chuck, Empire State, Virgin/Miracle, 1987.

Judge Shaw, W.A.R. Women against Rape (also known as Death Blow and I Will Dance on Your Grave: Lethal Victims ), 1987.

Cicero, Sweet Revenge, Concorde, 1987.

Run If You Can, Allied Artists, 1987.

Abe Karatz, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Paramount, 1988.

Bud, Delta Fever (also known as Summer Fever ), New World Video/Image Organization, 1988.

Judah Rosenthal, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Orion, 1989.

Sallini, Real Bullets, Vidmark, 1990.

Daniel Lambert, Paint It Black, Vestron, 1990.

Admiral Pendleton, Firehead, AIP Home Video, 1991.

L'oeil de la veuve, 1991.

Jack Roth, Mistress (also known as Hollywood Mistress ), Rainbow Releasing/Tribeca Productions, 1992.

Mayor Howard Baines, Eye of the Stranger, Silver Lake International Pictures, 1993.

Frank McCay, No Place to Hide, Cannon, 1993.

Frame by Frame, 1993.

Alex Parsons, Sliver (also known as Sliver—Gier der Augen ), Paramount, 1993.

Neal, Intersection (also known as The Things of Life ), Paramount, 1994.

Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood, Buena Vista, 1994.

Max Loeb, The Color of Evening, York Home Video, 1994.

Mac, Time Is Money, 1994.

The Elevator, 1996.

Judge Walker Stern, City Hall, Columbia, 1996.

Merisairas (also known as Seasick ), S. Andrews, 1996.

Geppetto, The Adventures of Pinocchio (also known as Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio and Pinocchio ), New Line Cinema, 1996.

Voice of storyteller, Legend of the Spirit Dog, Republic, 1997.

Mr. Blakemore, B*A*P*S, New Line Cinema, 1997.

Voice, The Long Way Home, Seventh Art Releasing, 1997.

Winter, 1998.

Himself, Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (documentary), Northern Arts Entertainment, 1998.

Professor Petrovsky, Rounders, Miramax, 1998.

Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil, The X–Files (also known as Aux frontieres du reel ), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1998.

Gordon Trout, The Joyriders, Trident Releasing, 1999.

Al, Edtv, Universal, 1999.

Carlo Torello, Carlo's Wake, 1999.

Geppetto, The New Adventures of Pinocchio (also known as Die Neuen Abenteuer des Pinocchio ), New Line Cinema, 1999.

(Uncredited) Peter Van Garrett, Sleepy Hollow, Paramount, 1999.

Edtv: Caught in the Camera's Eye (also known as Caught in the Camera's Eye ), Universal, 1999.

Sal Bandini, Ready to Rumble, Warner Bros., 2000.

Mr. White, Very Mean Men, Miracle, 2000.

Frank Spedding, Shiner, Miramax, 2000.

Harry Trimble, The Majestic, Warner Bros., 2001.

Narrator, Shanghai Ghetto, Rebel Child, 2002.

Older Sebastian, Wake, Wildwell, 2002.

Doctor, An Existential Affair, Exist LLC, 2002.

Jerry Duran, Hollywood Homicide, Columbia, 2003.

Senator Richard Russell, The Commission, 2003.

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (also known as Broadway: The Golden Age ), Second Act, 2003.

Also appeared in Tipperary.

Film Work:

Executive producer, Shoe Shine Boys, 2000.

Executive producer and producer, Jungle Juice, Miracle, 2001.

Executive producer, An Existential Affair, Exist LLC, 2002.

Television Appearances; Series:

Staccato, 1959.

Rollin Hand, Mission: Impossible, CBS, 1966–1969.

Commander John Koenig, Space 1999, syndicated, 1975–1977.

Voice of MacDonald "Mac" Gargan/Scorpion, a recurring role, Spider–Man (animated), Fox, 1995–1996.

Corsairs, 2002.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Captain Johnny Bristol, Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol, CBS, 1972.

Commander John Koenig, Journey through the Black Sun, 1976.

Commander John Koenig, Destination Moonbase Alpha (also known as Space: 2100 ), 1976.

Commander John Koenig, Cosmic Princess, 1976.

Commander John Koenig, Alien Attack, 1976.

Tom Flood, The Death of Ocean View Park, ABC, 1979.

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

Roderick Usher, The Fall of the House of Usher, NBC, 1982.

John Martin Perkins III, Kung Fu: The Movie, CBS, 1986.

Simon Wiesenthal, Max and Helen, TNT, 1990.

The U.S. president, By Dawn's Early Light (also known as The Grand Tour and Red Alert ), HBO, 1990.

Jerry Gertz, Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story (also known as The Ali Gertz Story and Fatal Love ), ABC, 1992.

Abraham Zelnick, Legacy of Lies, USA Network, 1992.

Dr. Thadius Moxley, 12:01, Fox, 1993.

Joseph Bonanno at age 94, Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, Showtime, 1999.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Max, The Neon Empire, Showtime, 1989.

Jacob, Joseph (also known as The Bible: Joseph and Joseph in Egypt ), TNT, 1995.

Voice of Woodrow Wilson, The Great War (also known as The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century ), PBS, 1996.

Abraham, In the Beginning, NBC, 2000.

Papa Gruber, Haven, CBS, 2001.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobra, CBS, 1966.

General Dominguez, Mission: Impossible, 1966.

Paul Savage, Savage (also known as The Savage File and Watch Dog ), NBC, 1973.

Lyle Stenning, The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, NBC, 1987.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The Screen Actors Guild 50th Anniversary Celebration, CBS, 1984.

Starathon '90: Weekend with the Stars for Cerebral Palsy, syndicated, 1990.

Narrator, Secrets of the Unknown, CBS, 1991.

Narrator, Visitors from the Unknown, CBS, 1992.

Inside the Academy Awards, TNT, 1995.

Interviewee, Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince, Arts and Entertainment, 1995.

The 'Space: 1999' Documentary, 1996.

Mr. Potter, Merry Christmas, George Bailey, PBS, 1997.

Peter Graves: Mission Accomplished, Arts and Entertainment, 1997.

Elizabeth Taylor: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1998.

Intimate Portrait: Halle Berry, Lifetime, 1998.

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man, Arts and Entertainment, 1998.

Steve McQueen: The King of Cool, AMC, 1998.

Host, The X–Files Movie Special, Fox, 1998.

The AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Stars, CBS, 1999.

(Uncredited; in archive footage) Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2, 1999.

Interviewee, Outer Limits Farewell Tribute, Showtime, 2000.

(In archive footage) Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest', TCM, 2000.

Tim Burton: Trick or Treat, Arts and Entertainment, 2001.

(Uncredited) Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (documentary), AMC, 2001.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards, TBS, 1990.

The Golden Globe's 50th Anniversary Celebration, NBC, 1994.

The 21st Annual People's Choice Awards, 1995.

Family Film Awards, 1996.

The 22nd Annual People's Choice Awards, 1996.

The 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards, 1996.

The 68th Annual Academy Awards, 1996.

The 70th Annual Academy Awards, 1998.

The 75th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2003.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"Salome," Omnibus, CBS, 1955.

Joel, "Terror at My Heels," Armstrong Circle Theatre, 1956.

Ralph Lowenstein, "House Divided," The Big Story, NBC, 1957.

"Sanctuary," Harbourmaster, CBS, 1957.

Henrique Fllipe, "The Jeweled Gun," Maverick, ABC, 1957.

Thorp, "The Patsy," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1958.

"Flight to Freedom: File Number 36," The Walter Winchell File, ABC, 1958.

Mike Manning, "High Card Hangs," Maverick, ABC, 1958.

Jim Kelly, "The Ghost," Sugarfoot, ABC, 1958.

Bob Ford, "The Outcast," Lawman, ABC, 1958.

"The Sounds of Eden," Playhouse 90, CBS, 1959.

Dan Hotaling, "Mr. Denton on Doomsday," The Twilight Zone, CBS, 1959.

"Survival," General Electric Theatre, CBS, 1959.

Doc Holliday, "Doc Holliday," Tales of Wells Fargo, NBC, 1959.

Cort, "Incident below the Brazos," Rawhide, CBS, 1959.

"Lucky Silva," The Lawless Years, NBC, 1959.

Jerry Fanning, "Mexican Stake–Out," The Untouchables, ABC, 1959.

"The Monsters," Wanted: Dead or Alive, CBS, 1960.

"Nightmare in Napuka," Adventures in Paradise, ABC, 1960.

Wes Tymon, "The Derelict," Johnny Ringo, CBS, 1960.

"Tigero," Tate, NBC, 1960.

Preacher, "The Cathy Eckhardt Story," Wagon Train, NBC, 1960.

Lieutenant Diaz, "Moment of Truth," Checkmate, CBS, 1960.

Clifford Pyncheon, "The House of Seven Gables," Shirley Temple Theatre, NBC, 1960.

Arnie, "Duel of Strangers," The Islanders, ABC, 1960.

Dr. Miller, "Mr. Flotsam," Adventures in Paradise, ABC, 1961.

Francisco, "Dark Moment," The Tall Man, NBC, 1961.

"The Gentleman from Brazil," Acapulco, NBC, 1961.

"The Avenger," Outlaws, NBC, 1961.

Stonie, "Hot Wind in a Cold Town," Checkmate, CBS, 1961.

Miguel, "The Vaqueros," The Rifleman, ABC, 1961.

"Shadow of His Brother," The Detectives (also known as The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor ), ABC, 1961.

"The Lonely House," Bonanza, NBC, 1961.

Larry Coombs, "Loophole," The Untouchables, ABC, 1961.

Emeliano, "The Gift," Bonanza, NBC, 1961.

"The Black Robe," The Tall Man, NBC, 1962.

"Pay the Two Dollars," Mr. Novak, NBC, 1963.

Andro, "The Man Who Was Never Born," The Outer Limits, ABC, 1963.

Cochio, "The Day of the Killer," The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, 1963.

Richard Bellero, Jr., "The Bellero Shield," The Outer Limits, ABC, 1964.

Major Ivan Kuchenko, "The Jeopardy Room," The Twilight Zone, CBS, 1964.

"The Secret," The Defenders, CBS, 1964.

"The Night the Monkey Died," The Greatest Show on Earth, ABC, 1964.

Ned Murray, "The Second Verdict," The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, CBS, 1964.

"Child in Danger," The Purex Special for Women, ABC, 1964.

Danny Preston, "Danny Was a Million Laughs," I Spy, NBC, 1965.

General Grimm, "The Night of the Red–Eyed Madmen," The Wild Wild West, CBS, 1965.

"Enter a Strange Animal," Mr. Novak, NBC, 1965.

Mariano Montoya, "The Way to Kill a Killer," The Big Valley, ABC, 1965.

"The Locket," A Man Called Shenandoah, ABC, 1965.

"This Stage of Fools," Branded, NBC, 1966.

Count Zark, "The Bat Cave Affair," The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NBC, 1966.

Britton, "The Goldtakers," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1966.

The Carol Burnett Show, 1968.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh–In, 1968.

(Uncredited) Maxwell Smart, "Pheasant under Glass," Get Smart, NBC, 1969.

Kraft Music Hall, 1970.

The Andy Williams Show, NBC, 1970.

Dexter Paris/Norman Paris, "Double Shock," Columbo, NBC, 1973.

Marquis Duval, Sr., "The Hunted," Matt Houston, ABC, 1983.

Russell Slocum, "Confrontations," Hotel, ABC, 1983.

Al Drake, "Birds of a Feather," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1984.

Hayden Stone, "Company, Ink," Buffalo Bill, NBC, 1984.

William Cooper–James, "The Beacon," The Twilight Zone, CBS, 1985.

Miles Broderick, "Last Flight from Moscow," Blacke's Magic, NBC, 1986.

Wallace Garrison, "The Final Twist," Alfred Hitchcock Presents, USA Network, 1987.

"Ed Wood," E! Mysteries & Scandals, E! Entertainment Television, 1999.

"Martin Landau," Autograph, 2002.

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, CBS, 2003.

Also appeared in episodes of Studio One, CBS; Philco Playhouse, NBC; Goodyear Playhouse, NBC; Kraft Television Theatre; What's It All About, World?; Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo.