Martin Landau

@Film & Theater Personalities, Family and Facts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Martin Landau was an Oscar-winning American actor New York American Film & Theater Personalities Actors Gemini Celebrities Martin Landau was an Oscar-winning American actor who became popular for his role as a gay henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's movie ‘North by Northwest’. From being a cartoonist to a Broadway actor to working in TV series and finally making it big with movies, Landau always experimented with his career choices. A character actor, Landau played a variety of roles in TV and films in a career spanning over seven decades. He has played not just positive roles but also negative and comical characters. He gained immense fame for his character Rollin Hand in the blockbuster TV series ‘Mission: Impossible’. He worked in popular TV shows such as ‘Armstrong Circle Theatre’, ‘Schlitz Playhouse’, ‘The Big Story’, ‘Maverick’ and ‘Rawhide’. He won lots of praise for his impeccable performances in films such as ‘Cleopatra’, ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’ and ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’. He won three Golden Globes for his supporting roles in various films before finally bagging his first Academy Award for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in ‘Ed Wood’. He continued acting in films and television series, while simultaneously heading the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio until his death in July 2017.

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Birthday: June 20, 1928 Died on: July 15, 2017 Nationality: American Famous: Film & Theater Personalities, Actors City/State: New Yorkers Spouses: Barbara Bain (m. 1957; div. 1993) Known as: Martin James Landau Information Detail Birthday June 20, 1928 Died on July 15, 2017 Nationality American Famous Film & Theater Personalities, Actors City/State New Yorkers Spouses Barbara Bain (m. 1957; div. 1993) Known as Martin James Landau Childrens Juliet Landau, Susan Landau Finch Universities Pratt Institute Birth Place Brooklyn, New York City, New York Height 185cm Gender Male Father Morris Landau Mother Selma Landau Sun Sign Gemini Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York Famous as Actor Died at Age 89

Brooklyn, New York City, New York

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Martin Landau married actress Barbara Bain on January 31, 1957, and had two daughters Susan and Juliet. They divorced in 1993. Unsplash Personal Life

Landau passed away due to hypovolemic shock with metabolic acidosis, intra-abdominal haemorrhage and diffuse atherosclerotic vascular disease on July 15, 2017, at the UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. He was 89 years old. Unsplash Personal Life

Martin James Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Landau and Selma. His father was a machinist. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Martin completed his schooling from James Madison High School and enrolled in the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

When he was around 17 years old, he took up the job of a cartoonist and illustrator with the New York Daily News. In his tenure of five years, he worked on several columns and comic strips such as ‘The Gumps’ and ‘Pitching Horseshoes’. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

At the age of 22, he quit his job as a cartoonist and forayed into theatre. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Martin Landau’s first stage performance was for the drama ‘Detective Story’ at the Peaks Island Playhouse in Peaks Island, Maine in 1951. In the same year, he made his off-Broadway debut with ‘First Love’. Unsplash Career

In 1955, Landau confirmed a place with the Actors Studio in New York City making him one of the two applicants selected out of the 500 that applied for the spot. At the training academy, he got the opportunity to be trained under Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman. Unsplash Career

He went on to work as an executive director and co-creative director of the program's West Coast branch. Unsplash Career

His venture into Broadway proved to be successful as he replaced the famous star Franchot Tone in the 1956 off-Broadway show ‘Uncle Vanya’. Unsplash Career

Landau then got his major breakthrough after he was cast for a touring production of Paddy Chayefsky’s play ‘Middle of the Night’ in 1957. His performance caught the eye of several casting agents that helped him bag multiple television projects. Unsplash Career

Martin Landau was producer Gene Roddenberry's original choice to play Mr Spock on ‘Star Trek’ in 1966. The role was then played by Leonard Nimoy who also replaced Landau in Mission: Impossible after he quit the show. Unsplash Trivia

Landau’s wife Barbara Bain worked with him in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ TV series. Unsplash Trivia

Before marrying Barbara Bain, he was supposedly in a relationship with Marilyn Monroe Unsplash Trivia

Information	Detail
Birthday	June 20, 1928
Died on	July 15, 2017
Nationality	American
Famous	Film & Theater Personalities, Actors
City/State	New Yorkers
Spouses	Barbara Bain (m. 1957; div. 1993)
Known as	Martin James Landau
Childrens	Juliet Landau, Susan Landau Finch
Universities	Pratt Institute
Birth Place	Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Height	185cm
Gender	Male
Father	Morris Landau
Mother	Selma Landau
Sun Sign	Gemini
Born in	Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Famous as	Actor
Died at Age	89

Martin Landau

American

Jun 20, 1928

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Brooklyn, New York City, New York