
Martin Landau
Known for Acting · 201 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 (59)

The Simpsons
1989
as The Great Raymondo (voice)

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

Columbo
1971
as Dexter Paris / Norman Paris

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Al Drake

Without a Trace
2002
as Frank Malone

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

The Rifleman
1958

Bonanza
1959
as Emeliano

Entourage
2004
as Bob Ryan

Maverick
1957
as Mike Manning

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Ned Murray

The Wild Wild West
1965
as General Grimm

Get Smart
1965
as Maxwell Smart (uncredited)

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

The Twilight Zone
1959
as Dan Hotaling / Major Ivan Kuchenko

The Untouchables
1959
as Jerry Fanning / Larry Coombs

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

Hotel
1982
as Russell Slocum

Lawman
1958
as Bob Ford

The Big Valley
1965
as Mariano Montoya

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

Gunsmoke
1955
as Thorp / Britton

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

Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Khorba

In Plain Sight
2008
as Joseph Thomas / Joseph Tancredi

The Defenders
1961
as Dr. Daniel Orren

The Oscars
1953
as Self

The Outer Limits
1963
as Andro / Richard Bellero

The Tall Man
1960

Space: 1999
1975
as John Koenig

Omnibus
1952
as Jokanaan / John the Baptist

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Wallace Garrison

Johnny Staccato
1959

Matt Houston
1982

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

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

Adventures in Paradise
1959
as Sacheveral Sackett / Miller

The Detectives
1959

Mr. Novak
1963
as Victor Rand / Robert Coolidge

Branded
1965
as Edwin Booth

I Spy
1965
as Danny Preston

Johnny Ringo
1959
as Wes Tymon

Outlaws
1960

The Lawless Years
1959

The Islanders
1960
as Arnie
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963

Tate
1960

Buffalo Bill
1983
as Hayden Stone

Blacke's Magic
1986

The Evidence
2006
as Dr. Sol Goldman

In the Beginning
2000
as Abraham

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Haven
2001
as Papa Gruber

General Electric Theater
1953
as Apache Indian

Joseph
1995
as Jacob

Special for Women
1960
as The Accused

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

The Neon Empire
1989
as Max
Movies (142)

Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)

9
2009
as #2 (voice)

Frankenweenie
2012
as Mr. Rzykruski (voice)

Sliver
1993
as Alex Parsons

Entourage
2015
as Bob Ryan

Cleopatra
1963
as Rufio

North by Northwest
1959
as Leonard

The X-Files
1998
as Kurtzweil

Joseph
1995
as Jacob

City of Ember
2008
as Sul

Rounders
1998
as Abe Petrovsky

Ed Wood
1994
as Bela Lugosi

Love, Antosha
2019
as Self (archive footage)

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
as Judah Rosenthal

Harrison Montgomery
2008
as Harrison Montgomery

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Caiaphas

Teenage Paparazzo
2010
as Self

The Majestic
2001
as Harry Trimble

City Hall
1996
as Judge Walter Stern

Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
as Self

Hollywood Homicide
2003
as Jerry Duran

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Abe

Intersection
1994
as Neal

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
as Logan Sharpe

Remember
2015
as Max Rosenbaum

Nevada Smith
1966
as Jesse Coe

Mistress
1992
as Jack Roth

Ready to Rumble
2000
as Sal Bandini

Lovely, Still
2009
as Robert

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
as Geppetto

EDtv
1999
as Al

The Hallelujah Trail
1965
as Chief Walks-Stooped-Over

David & Fatima
2008
as Rabbi Schmulic

B.A.P.S
1997
as Mr. Donald Blakemore
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001
as Self

Delta Fever
1987
as Bud

The Gazebo
1959
as The Duke

A Town Called Bastard
1971
as The Colonel

By Dawn's Early Light
1990
as President

Without Ward
2022

Pork Chop Hill
1959
as Lt. Marshall

Wake
2003
as Older Sebastian Riven

Meteor
1979
as General Adlon

Real Bullets
1988
as Sallini

Have a Little Faith
2011
as Rabbi Albert Lewis

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

Very Mean Men
2000
as Mr. White

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

Alone in the Dark
1982
as Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff

Without Warning
1980
as Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs

Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs
2014
as Rulon Jeffs

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

Haven
2001
as Papa Gruber

The Return
1980
as Niles Buchanan

Aliens from Spaceship Earth
1977
as Self

The Long Way Home
1997
as (voice)

Max and Helen
1990
as Simon Wiesenthal

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

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

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
1964
as Nelson Orion

James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
as Self

Shadows in an Empty Room
1976
as Dr. George Tracer

The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999
as Geppetto

Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
as Self

Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief
1989
as Self

Billy: The Early Years
2008
as Old Charles Templeton

The Being
1983
as Garson Jones

12:01
1993
as Dr. Thadius Moxley

Cyclone
1987
as Bosarian

The Red Maple Leaf
2017
as Bernard Florence
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
as Self

Savage!
1973
as Paul Savage

Destination Moonbase-Alpha
1978
as Commander John Koenig

No Place to Hide
1992
as Frank McCoy

Sweet Revenge
1987
as Cicero

Echoes That Remain
1991
as Narrator (voice)

Cosmic Princess
1982
as Commander John Koenig

Kung Fu: The Movie
1986
as John Martin Perkins III

Secrets of the Unknown
1991
as Narrator

The Last Word
1979
as Captain Garrity
Steve McQueen: The King of Cool
1998
as Self

Ed Wood: Making Bela
2004
as Self / Bela Lugosi

Empire State
1987
as Chuck

Treasure Island
1986
as The Captain

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
as Self

The Aryan Couple
2004
as Joseph Krauzenberg

The Color of Evening
1990
as Max Loeb

Black Gunn
1972
as Capelli

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

Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit
2025
as Self

Eye of the Stranger
1993
as Mayor Howard Bains

Mysteria
2011
as Hotel Manager

Operation Snafu
1970
as Joe Mellone
A Fighting Chance
2016
as Martin Kramer

The Commission
2003
as Sen. Richard Russell

The Joyriders
1999
as Gordon Trout

Mission: Impossible - The Slave
1967
as Rollin Hand

The Elevator
1998
as Roy Tilden

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001
as Self

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

The Neon Empire
1989
as Max

Time is Money
1994
as Mac

Alien Attack
1980
as Commander John Koenig

Prisoners in Space
2025
as Commander Koenig

Access Code
1984
as Agency Head

Legacy of Lies
1992

Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
2018
as Abe

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

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005
as Self

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

Carlo's Wake
1999
as Carlo Torello

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972
as Johnny Bristol

Run If You Can
1988
as Malvani
Meir's Festival
2013
as Self

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

Paint It Black
1990
as Daniel Lambert

Legend of the Spirit Dog
1997
as Storyteller

Brando
2007
as Self

Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood
2020
as Self

Space: 1999
1975
as John Koenig
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 201 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, Martin Landau has appeared in 142 films and 59 TV shows.
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Most Popular Martin Landau Movies
- Sleepy Hollow (1999) — as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)
- 9 (2009) — as #2 (voice)
- Frankenweenie (2012) — as Mr. Rzykruski (voice)
- Sliver (1993) — as Alex Parsons
- Entourage (2015) — as Bob Ryan
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