Martin Landau
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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Acting History
2025
Prisoners in Space as Commander Koenig
2025Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit as Self
2022Without Ward
2020TINSEL: The Lost Movie About Hollywood as Self
2019Love, Antosha as Self (archive footage)
2018Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game as Abe
2017The Red Maple Leaf as Bernard Florence
2016A Fighting Chance as Martin Kramer
2015Remember as Max Rosenbaum
2015Entourage as Bob Ryan
2014Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs as Rulon Jeffs
2013Meir's Festival as Self
2013Anna Nicole as J. Howard Marshall
2012Frankenweenie as Mr. Rzykruski (voice)
2011Have a Little Faith as Rabbi Albert Lewis
2011Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
2011Mysteria as Hotel Manager
2010The Return of Victor Bergman as Commander John Koenig (archive footage)
2010Ivory as Leon Spencer
2010Teenage Paparazzo as Self
2009A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics as Self
2009Lovely, Still as Robert
2009A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers as Self
20099 as #2 (voice)
2008Billy: The Early Years as Old Charles Templeton
2008City of Ember as Sul
2008David & Fatima as Rabbi Schmulic
2008In Plain Sight as Joseph Thomas / Joseph Tancredi
2008Harrison Montgomery as Harrison Montgomery
2007Brando as Self
2006An Existential Affair as The Wedding Doctor
2006The Evidence as Dr. Sol Goldman
2005Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
2005Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool as Self
2005James Dean: Sense Memories as Self
2004The Aryan Couple as Joseph Krauzenberg
2004Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% as Self
2004Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2004Ed Wood: Making Bela as Self / Bela Lugosi
2004Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild as Self
2004Entourage as Bob Ryan
2004Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self
2003Wake as Older Sebastian Riven
2003The Commission as Sen. Richard Russell
2003Hollywood Homicide as Jerry Duran
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002Without a Trace as Frank Malone
2002Shanghai Ghetto as Narrator
2001The Majestic as Harry Trimble
2001Contender: Mastering the Method as Self
2001Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
2001Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood as Self
2001Haven as Papa Gruber
2000In the Beginning as Abraham
2000Shiner as Frank Spedding
2000Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' as Self
2000Very Mean Men as Mr. White
2000Ready to Rumble as Sal Bandini
1999Sleepy Hollow as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)
1999The New Adventures of Pinocchio as Geppetto
1999Bonanno: A Godfather's Story as Joseph Bonanno, age 94
1999The Joyriders as Gordon Trout
1999EDtv as Al
1999Carlo's Wake as Carlo Torello
1998Rounders as Abe Petrovsky
1998The X-Files as Kurtzweil
1998Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's as Self
1998The Elevator as Roy Tilden
1998Steve McQueen: The King of Cool as Self
1997Merry Christmas, George Bailey as Pa Bailey / Mr. Potter
1997The Long Way Home as (voice)
1997Legend of the Spirit Dog as Storyteller
1997B.A.P.S as Mr. Donald Blakemore
1996E! True Hollywood Story
1996The Adventures of Pinocchio as Geppetto
1996City Hall as Judge Walter Stern
1995Joseph as Jacob
1995Joseph as Jakob
1994Spider-Man as Mac Gargan / Scorpion (voice)
1994Spider-Man as Scorpion (voice)
1994Time is Money as Mac
1994Ed Wood as Bela Lugosi
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994Intersection as Neal
199312:01 as Dr. Thadius Moxley
1993Sliver as Alex Parsons
1993Eye of the Stranger as Mayor Howard Bains
1992No Place to Hide as Frank McCoy
1992Mistress as Jack Roth
1992Legacy of Lies
1992Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story as Jerry Gertz
1991Echoes That Remain as Narrator (voice)
1991Firehead as Adm. Pendleton
1991Secrets of the Unknown as Narrator
1990The Color of Evening as Max Loeb
1990By Dawn's Early Light as President
1990Paint It Black as Daniel Lambert
1990Max and Helen as Simon Wiesenthal
1989The Simpsons as The Great Raymondo (voice)
1989The Neon Empire as Max
1989The Neon Empire as Max
1989Crimes and Misdemeanors as Judah Rosenthal
1988Run If You Can as Malvani
1988Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Abe
1988Real Bullets as Sallini
1987Delta Fever as Bud
1987Cyclone as Bosarian
1987The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman as Lyle Stenning
1987Empire State as Chuck
1987Sweet Revenge as Cicero
1987W.A.R.: Women Against Rape as Judge Shaw
1986Kung Fu: The Movie as John Martin Perkins III
1986Blacke's Magic
1986Treasure Island as The Captain
1985The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Wallace Garrison
1985The Twilight Zone as William Cooper-Janes (segment "The Beacon")
1984Murder, She Wrote as Al Drake
1984Access Code as Agency Head
1983The Being as Garson Jones
1983Buffalo Bill as Hayden Stone
1983Trial by Terror
1982Cosmic Princess as Commander John Koenig
1982Alone in the Dark as Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
1982Matt Houston
1982Journey Through the Black Sun as Commander John Koenig
1982Hotel
1981The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island as J.J. Pierson
1980Without Warning as Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs
1980Alien Attack as Commander John Koenig
1980The Return as Niles Buchanan
1979Meteor as General Adlon
1979The Death of Ocean View Park as Tom Flood
1979The Last Word as Captain Garrity
1979The Fall of the House of Usher as Roderick Usher
1978Destination Moonbase-Alpha as Commander John Koenig
1977Aliens from Spaceship Earth as Self
1976Shadows in an Empty Room as Dr. George Tracer
1975Space: 1999 as John Koenig
1975Space: 1999 as John Koenig
1973Savage as Paul Savage
1972Black Gunn as Capelli
1972Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol as Johnny Bristol
1971A Town Called Bastard as The Colonel
1971Columbo as Dexter Paris / Norman Paris
1970They Call Me Mister Tibbs! as Logan Sharpe
1970Operation Snafu as Joe Mellone
1969Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob as Rollin Hard
1969The Mama Cass Television Program as Self
1969Mission: Impossible - The Bunker as Rollin Hand
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
1967Mission: Impossible - The Slave as Rollin Hand
1967The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters
1966Mission: Impossible as Rollin Hand
1966Mission: Impossible as Rollin Hand / General Rio Dominguez
1966Nevada Smith as Jesse Coe
1965Get Smart as Maxwell Smart (uncredited)
1965The Wild Wild West
1965The Big Valley as Mariano Montoya
1965I Spy as Danny Preston
1965The Hallelujah Trail as Chief Walks-Stooped-Over
1965The Greatest Story Ever Told as Caiaphas
1965Branded as Edwin Booth
1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Count Ladislaus Zark
1964The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre as Nelson Orion
1963Decision at Midnight
1963Mr. Novak as Victor Rand
1963Mr. Novak as Robert Coolidge
1963The Greatest Show on Earth
1963The Outer Limits as Andro
1963The Outer Limits as Richard Bellero
1963Cleopatra as Rufio
1962Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock as Dade Coleman
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Ned Murray
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961The Defenders as Dr. Daniel Orren
1960The Islanders as Arnie
1960Outlaws
1960The Tall Man
1960Tate
1960The Gazebo as The Duke
1959The Detectives
1959The Untouchables as Jerry Fanning
1959The Untouchables as Larry Coombs
1959Adventures in Paradise as Sacheveral Sackett
1959Adventures in Paradise as Miller
1959The Twilight Zone as Dan Hotaling
1959The Twilight Zone as Major Ivan Kuchenko
1959Johnny Ringo as Wes Tymon
1959Bonanza as Emeliano
1959Johnny Staccato
1959North by Northwest as Leonard
1959Pork Chop Hill as Lt. Marshall
1959The Lawless Years
1958Lawman
1958The Rifleman
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive as Khorba
1957Maverick as Mike Manning
1955Gunsmoke as Thorp
1955Gunsmoke as Britton
1953The Oscars as Self
1953General Electric Theater as Apache Indian
1952Omnibus as Jokanaan / John the Baptist
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee