
Martin Landau
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Landau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits

North by Northwest (1959)
as Leonard

Sleepy Hollow (1999)
as Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)

Sliver (1993)
as Alex Parsons

9 (2009)
as #2 (voice)

Frankenweenie (2012)
as Mr. Rzykruski (voice)

City of Ember (2008)
as Sul

The X-Files (1998)
as Kurtzweil

Cleopatra (1963)
as Rufio

Entourage (2015)
as Bob Ryan

Love, Antosha (2019)
as Self (archive footage)

Rounders (1998)
as Abe Petrovsky

Ed Wood (1994)
as Bela Lugosi

Teenage Paparazzo (2010)
as Self

Hollywood Homicide (2003)
as Jerry Duran

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
as Judah Rosenthal

Remember (2015)
as Max Rosenbaum

Joseph (1995)
as Jacob

Mistress (1992)
as Jack Roth

The Majestic (2001)
as Harry Trimble

Without Ward (2022)
Actor

EDtv (1999)
as Al

Ready to Rumble (2000)
as Sal Bandini

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
as Caiaphas

Hollywood's Greatest Villains (2005)
as Self

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
as Geppetto

City Hall (1996)
as Judge Walter Stern

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
as Abe

Monty and the Movies (—)
as Self (archive footage)

Harrison Montgomery (2008)
as Harrison Montgomery
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored (2001)
as Self

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
as Logan Sharpe

Delta Fever (1987)
as Bud

The Gazebo (1959)
as The Duke

The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
as Geppetto

Intersection (1994)
as Neal

Meteor (1979)
as General Adlon

Lovely, Still (2009)
as Robert

Space: 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit (2025)
as Self

Alone in the Dark (1982)
as Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff

Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph (2026)
as Commander John Koenig

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

Nevada Smith (1966)
as Jesse Coe

Aliens from Spaceship Earth (1977)
as Self

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

Without Warning (1980)
as Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs

Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief (1989)
as Self

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

Wake (2003)
as Older Sebastian Riven

The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
as Chief Walks-Stooped-Over

By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
as President

A Town Called Bastard (1971)
as The Colonel

James Dean: Sense Memories (2005)
as Self
All About Alfred (—)
as Self

The Return (1980)
as Niles Buchanan
Steve McQueen: The King of Cool (1998)
as Self

Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011)
as Self

12:01 (1993)
as Dr. Thadius Moxley

David & Fatima (2008)
as Rabbi Schmulic

Pork Chop Hill (1959)
as Lt. Marshall

Very Mean Men (2000)
as Mr. White

Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978)
as Commander John Koenig

Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs (2014)
as Rulon Jeffs

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

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999)
as Joseph Bonanno Sr.

Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood (2020)
as Self
Meir's Festival (2013)
as Self

Real Bullets (1988)
as Sallini

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

Shadows in an Empty Room (1976)
as Dr. George Tracer

Max and Helen (1990)
as Simon Wiesenthal

Have a Little Faith (2011)
as Rabbi Albert Lewis

The Death of Ocean View Park (1979)
as Tom Flood

The Red Maple Leaf (2017)
as Bernard Florence

Mission: Impossible - The Slave (1967)
as Rollin Hand

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2005)
as Self

No Place to Hide (1992)
as Frank McCoy

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

Mysteria (2011)
as Hotel Manager

An Existential Affair (2006)
as The Wedding Doctor

Kung Fu: The Movie (1986)
as John Martin Perkins III

The Joyriders (1999)
as Gordon Trout

Billy: The Early Years (2008)
as Old Charles Templeton

Savage! (1973)
as Paul Savage

Time is Money (1994)
as Mac

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001)
as Self

Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004)
as Self

Shiner (2000)
as Frank Spedding

Mission: Impossible - Old Man Out (1966)
as Rollin Hand

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964)
as Nelson Orion

The Long Way Home (1997)
as (voice)

Treasure Island (1986)
as The Captain

The Being (1983)
as Garson Jones

Brando (2007)
as Self

Black Gunn (1972)
as Capelli

The Elevator (1998)
as Roy Tilden

Empire State (1987)
as Chuck

Echoes That Remain (1991)
as Narrator (voice)

Sweet Revenge (1987)
as Cicero

Cyclone (1987)
as Bosarian

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
as Johnny Bristol

Firehead (1991)
as Adm. Pendleton

Contender: Mastering the Method (2001)
as Self

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

The Last Word (1979)
as Captain Garrity

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

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob (1969)
as Rollin Hard

Haven (2001)
as Papa Gruber

The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
as Roderick Usher

Space: 1999 (1975)
as John Koenig

Decision at Midnight (1963)
as Nils

Ed Wood: Making Bela (2004)
as Self / Bela Lugosi

Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game (2018)
as Abe

Alien Attack (1980)
as Commander John Koenig

Cosmic Princess (1982)
as Commander John Koenig
Lethal Victims (1987)
as Judge Shaw

The Aryan Couple (2004)
as Joseph Krauzenberg

Eye of the Stranger (1993)
as Mayor Howard Bains

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)
as Self

The Color of Evening (1990)
as Max Loeb

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

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

Journey Through the Black Sun (1982)
as Commander John Koenig

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

Operation Snafu (1970)
as Joe Mellone
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild (2004)
as Self

The Commission (2003)
as Sen. Richard Russell

Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock (1962)
as Dade Coleman

The Mama Cass Television Program (1969)
as Self

Mission: Impossible - The Bunker (1969)
as Rollin Hand

Paint It Black (1990)
as Daniel Lambert

The Neon Empire (1989)
as Max

Prisoners in Space (2025)
as Commander Koenig

Run If You Can (1988)
as Malvani

Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997)
as Storyteller

Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
as Narrator

Secrets of the Unknown (1991)
as Narrator
A Fighting Chance (2016)
as Martin Kramer

Trial by Terror (1983)
Actor

The Return of Victor Bergman (2010)
as Commander John Koenig (archive footage)

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

Carlo's Wake (1999)
as Carlo Torello

Ivory (2010)
as Leon Spencer

Legacy of Lies (1992)
Actor

Access Code (1984)
as Agency Head

Anna Nicole (2013)
as J. Howard Marshall





