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.

Filmography

• 2026Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph — Commander John Koenig
• 2025Prisoners in Space — Commander Koenig
• 2022Without Ward
• 2018Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game — Abe
• 2017The Red Maple Leaf — Bernard Florence
• 2016A Fighting Chance — Martin Kramer
• 2015Entourage — Bob Ryan
• 2015Remember — Max Rosenbaum
• 2014Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs — Rulon Jeffs
• 2013Anna Nicole — J. Howard Marshall
• 2012Frankenweenie — Mr. Rzykruski (voice)
• 2011Have a Little Faith — Rabbi Albert Lewis
• 2011Mysteria — Hotel Manager
• 2010Ivory — Leon Spencer
• 2010The Return of Victor Bergman — Commander John Koenig (archive footage)
• 20099 — #2 (voice)
• 2009Lovely, Still — Robert, Executive Producer
• 2008Billy: The Early Years — Old Charles Templeton
• 2008City of Ember — Sul
• 2008David & Fatima — Rabbi Schmulic
• 2008Harrison Montgomery — Harrison Montgomery
• In Plain Sight — Joseph Thomas / Joseph Tancredi
• 2006An Existential Affair — The Wedding Doctor
• The Evidence — Dr. Sol Goldman
• Entourage — Bob Ryan
• 2004The Aryan Couple — Joseph Krauzenberg
• 2003Hollywood Homicide — Jerry Duran
• 2003The Commission — Sen. Richard Russell
• 2003Wake — Older Sebastian Riven
• 2002Shanghai Ghetto — Narrator
• Without a Trace — Frank Malone
• 2001Haven — Papa Gruber
• Haven — Papa Gruber
• 2001The Majestic — Harry Trimble
• In the Beginning — Abraham
• 2000Ready to Rumble — Sal Bandini
• 2000Shiner — Frank Spedding
• 2000Very Mean Men — Mr. White
• 1999Bonanno: A Godfather's Story — Joseph Bonanno, age 94
• 1999Carlo's Wake — Carlo Torello
• 1999EDtv — Al
• 1999Sleepy Hollow — Peter Van Garrett (uncredited)
• 1999The Joyriders — Gordon Trout
• 1999The New Adventures of Pinocchio — Geppetto
• 1998Rounders — Abe Petrovsky
• 1998The Elevator — Roy Tilden
• 1998The X-Files — Kurtzweil
• 1997B.A.P.S — Mr. Donald Blakemore
• 1997Legend of the Spirit Dog — Storyteller
• 1997Merry Christmas, George Bailey — Pa Bailey / Mr. Potter
• 1997The Long Way Home — (voice)
• 1996City Hall — Judge Walter Stern
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996The Adventures of Pinocchio — Geppetto
• 1995Joseph — Jacob
• Joseph — Jacob
• 1994Ed Wood — Bela Lugosi
• 1994Intersection — Neal
• Spider-Man — Mac Gargan / Scorpion (voice)
• 1994Time is Money — Mac
• 199312:01 — Dr. Thadius Moxley
• 1993Eye of the Stranger — Mayor Howard Bains
• 1993Sliver — Alex Parsons
• 1992Legacy of Lies
• 1992Mistress — Jack Roth
• 1992No Place to Hide — Frank McCoy
• 1992Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story — Jerry Gertz
• 1991Echoes That Remain — Narrator (voice)
• 1991Firehead — Adm. Pendleton
• 1991Secrets of the Unknown — Narrator
• 1990By Dawn's Early Light — President
• 1990Max and Helen — Simon Wiesenthal
• 1990Paint It Black — Daniel Lambert
• 1990The Color of Evening — Max Loeb
• 1989Crimes and Misdemeanors — Judah Rosenthal
• 1989The Neon Empire — Max
• The Neon Empire — Max
• The Simpsons — The Great Raymondo (voice)
• 1988Real Bullets — Sallini
• 1988Run If You Can — Malvani
• 1988Tucker: The Man and His Dream — Abe
• 1987Cyclone — Bosarian
• 1987Delta Fever — Bud
• 1987Empire State — Chuck
• 1987Lethal Victims — Judge Shaw
• 1987Sweet Revenge — Cicero
• 1987The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman — Lyle Stenning
• 1987W.A.R.: Women Against Rape — Judge Shaw
• Blacke's Magic
• 1986Kung Fu: The Movie — John Martin Perkins III
• 1986Treasure Island — The Captain
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Wallace Garrison
• The Twilight Zone — William Cooper-Janes (segment "The Beacon")
• 1984Access Code — Agency Head
• Murder, She Wrote — Al Drake
• Buffalo Bill — Hayden Stone
• 1983The Being — Garson Jones
• 1983Trial by Terror
• 1982Alone in the Dark — Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
• 1982Cosmic Princess — Commander John Koenig
• Hotel — Russell Slocum
• 1982Journey Through the Black Sun — Commander John Koenig
• Matt Houston
• 1981The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island — J.J. Pierson
• 1980Alien Attack — Commander John Koenig
• 1980The Return — Niles Buchanan
• 1980Without Warning — Fred 'Sarge' Dobbs
• 1979Meteor — General Adlon
• 1979The Death of Ocean View Park — Tom Flood
• 1979The Fall of the House of Usher — Roderick Usher
• 1979The Last Word — Captain Garrity
• 1978Destination Moonbase-Alpha — Commander John Koenig
• 1976Shadows in an Empty Room — Dr. George Tracer
• 1975Space: 1999 — John Koenig
• Space: 1999 — John Koenig
• 1973Savage — Paul Savage
• 1972Black Gunn — Capelli
• 1972Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol — Johnny Bristol
• 1971A Town Called Bastard — The Colonel
• Columbo — Dexter Paris / Norman Paris
• 1970Operation Snafu — Joe Mellone
• 1970They Call Me Mister Tibbs! — Logan Sharpe
• 1969Mission: Impossible - The Bunker — Rollin Hand
• 1969Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob — Rollin Hard
• 1967Mission: Impossible - The Slave — Rollin Hand
• Mission: Impossible — Rollin Hand
• 1966Mission: Impossible - Old Man Out — Rollin Hand
• 1966Nevada Smith — Jesse Coe
• Branded — Edwin Booth
• Get Smart — Maxwell Smart (uncredited)
• I Spy — Danny Preston
• The Big Valley — Mariano Montoya
• 1965The Greatest Story Ever Told — Caiaphas
• 1965The Hallelujah Trail — Chief Walks-Stooped-Over
• The Wild Wild West — General Grimm
• 1964The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre — Nelson Orion
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Count Ladislaus Zark
• 1963Cleopatra — Rufio
• 1963Decision at Midnight — Nils
• Mr. Novak — Victor Rand, Robert Coolidge
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• The Outer Limits — Andro, Richard Bellero
• 1962Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock — Dade Coleman
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Ned Murray
• The Defenders — Dr. Daniel Orren
• Outlaws
• Special for Women — The Accused
• Tate
• The Islanders — Arnie
• The Tall Man
• Adventures in Paradise — Sacheveral Sackett, Miller
• Bonanza — Emeliano
• Johnny Ringo — Wes Tymon
• Johnny Staccato
• 1959North by Northwest — Leonard
• 1959Pork Chop Hill — Lt. Marshall
• The Detectives
• 1959The Gazebo — The Duke
• The Lawless Years
• The Twilight Zone — Dan Hotaling, Major Ivan Kuchenko
• The Untouchables — Jerry Fanning, Larry Coombs
• Lawman — Bob Ford
• The Rifleman
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Khorba
• Maverick — Mike Manning
• Gunsmoke — Thorp, Britton
• General Electric Theater — Apache Indian
• Omnibus — Jokanaan / John the Baptist
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Appearances as themselves (36)

• 2025Space: 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit — Self
• Tim Burton: Life in the Line — Self (footage)
• 2020Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood — Self
• 2019Love, Antosha — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Meir's Festival — Self
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
• 2010Teenage Paparazzo — Self
• 2009A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics — Self
• 2009A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers — Self
• 2007Brando — Self
• 2005Hollywood's Greatest Villains — Self
• 2005James Dean: Sense Memories — Self
• 2005Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool — Self
• 2004Cary Grant: A Class Apart — Self
• 2004Ed Wood: Let's Shoot This @#!% — Self
• 2004Ed Wood: Making Bela — Self / Bela Lugosi
• 2004Ed Wood: Pie Plates Over Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 2001Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood — Self
• 2001Contender: Mastering the Method — Self
• 2001Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored — Self
• 2000Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' — Self
• 1998Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's — Self
• 1998Steve McQueen: The King of Cool — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1989Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief — Self
• 1977Aliens from Spaceship Earth — Self
• 1969The Mama Cass Television Program — Self
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In — Self (uncredited)
• The Carol Burnett Show — Self - Guest / Various Characters
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• All About Alfred — Self
• Monty and the Movies — Self (archive footage)