![]() ![]() ![]() "I told the picture editor I was going into the theater," he recalled. He quit the Daily News when he was 22 to concentrate on theater acting. There he spent the next five years as an editorial cartoonist and worked alongside Gus Edson to produce the comic strip The Gumps. Īfter attending both James Madison High School and Pratt Institute, he found work at the New York Daily News. His father was an Austrian-born machinist who tried to rescue relatives from the Nazis. Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Selma ( née Buchman) and Morris Landau. He headed the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio until his death in July 2017. Other notable roles include in Cleopatra (1963), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Rounders (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Remember (2015). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994). Landau earned Academy Award nominations for his performances in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) and Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His career breakthrough came with leading roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977). His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). ![]() Martin James Landau ( / ˈ l æ n d aʊ/ J– July 15, 2017) was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist. ![]()
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