Den Of Geek Jul 17, 2017
Ed Wood and Mission: Impossible’s Martin Landau has died, leaving a terrific body of work behind.
More sad news this morning. Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau has died, at the age of 89. He’s died following “unexpected complications”, following a hospital stay in Los Angeles.
Boasting a career that started in earnest back in the 1950s, most notably with a supporting role in North By Northwest, he shot to fame particularly on the small screen, with his roles in Mission: Impossible and Space 1999. But his credits across film and television were extensive. He won his Oscar for his superb turn as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s brilliant Ed Wood.
He also turned down the role of Spock in Star Trek, that would of course go to his friend, the late Leonard Nimoy.
Landau was 89 years old, and had filmed his final film role, a small feature called Without Ward.
Ed Wood and Mission: Impossible’s Martin Landau has died, leaving a terrific body of work behind.
More sad news this morning. Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau has died, at the age of 89. He’s died following “unexpected complications”, following a hospital stay in Los Angeles.
Boasting a career that started in earnest back in the 1950s, most notably with a supporting role in North By Northwest, he shot to fame particularly on the small screen, with his roles in Mission: Impossible and Space 1999. But his credits across film and television were extensive. He won his Oscar for his superb turn as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s brilliant Ed Wood.
He also turned down the role of Spock in Star Trek, that would of course go to his friend, the late Leonard Nimoy.
Landau was 89 years old, and had filmed his final film role, a small feature called Without Ward.
- 7/17/2017
- Den of Geek
Oscar-winning star of Ed Wood turned down role of Spock in Star Trek.
Martin Landau, who won the Oscar for Ed Wood and made his name in the TV series Mission: Impossible, has died in Los Angeles following complications during a hospital visit. He was 89.
Landau was born June 28, 1928, in Brooklyn and worked as a newspaper cartoonist before the call of entertainment became too strong to resist.
He found fame in entertainment in the 1960s TV spy series Mission: Impossible, starring opposite his then wife Barbara Bain.
The couple also played alongside each other in the 1970s sci-fi episodic Space 1999. Landau appeared in many TV shows – earning an Emmys nod for Without a Trace in 2005 – and famously turned down the role of Spock in Star Trek, which eventually went to Leonard Nimoy.
In film he got his big break as the villainous James Woods’ lieutenant Leonard in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest. Roles included...
Martin Landau, who won the Oscar for Ed Wood and made his name in the TV series Mission: Impossible, has died in Los Angeles following complications during a hospital visit. He was 89.
Landau was born June 28, 1928, in Brooklyn and worked as a newspaper cartoonist before the call of entertainment became too strong to resist.
He found fame in entertainment in the 1960s TV spy series Mission: Impossible, starring opposite his then wife Barbara Bain.
The couple also played alongside each other in the 1970s sci-fi episodic Space 1999. Landau appeared in many TV shows – earning an Emmys nod for Without a Trace in 2005 – and famously turned down the role of Spock in Star Trek, which eventually went to Leonard Nimoy.
In film he got his big break as the villainous James Woods’ lieutenant Leonard in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest. Roles included...
- 7/16/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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