Martin Landau

Highest Rated: 100% Teenage Paparazzo (2010)

Lowest Rated: 5% Meteor (1979)

Birthday: Jun 20, 1931

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Saturnine character actor Martin Landau was a staff cartoonist for the New York Daily News before switching to acting. In 1955, his career got off to a promising beginning, when out of 2,000 applicants, only he and one other actor (Steve McQueen) were accepted by Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. Extremely busy in the days of live, Manhattan-based television, Landau made his cinematic mark with his second film appearance, playing James Mason's henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). In 1966, Landau and his wife Barbara Bain were both cast on the TV adventure/espionage series Mission: Impossible. For three years, Landau portrayed Rollin Hand, a master of disguise with the acute ability to impersonate virtually every villain who came down the pike (banana-republic despots were a specialty). Unhappy with changes in production personnel and budget cuts, Landau and Bain left the series in 1969. Six years later, they costarred in Space: 1999 a popular syndicated sci-fi series; the performances of Landau, Bain, and third lead Barry Morse helped to gloss over the glaring gaps in continuity and logic which characterized the show's two-year run. The couple would subsequently act together several times (The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981) was one of the less distinguished occasions) before their marriage dissolved.Working steadily in various projects throughout the next few decades, Landau enjoyed a career renaissance with two consecutive Oscar nominations, the first for Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), and the second for Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). Landau finally won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's 1994 Ed Wood; his refusal to cut his acceptance speech short was one of the high points of the 1995 Oscar ceremony. He would continue to work over the next several years, appearing in movies like City of Ember and Mysteria, as well as on TV shows like Without a Trace and Entourage.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Last Poker Game	Abe	—	2017
71%	Remember	Max	$0.5M	2016
33%	Entourage	Bob Ryan	—	2015
No Score Yet	Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs	Rulon Jeffs	—	2014
No Score Yet	Anna Nicole	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Anna Nicole	J. Howard Marshall	—	2013
87%	Frankenweenie	Mr. Rzykruski	$35.3M	2012
No Score Yet	Have A Little Faith	Rabbi Albert Lewis	—	2011
95%	Woody Allen: A Documentary	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Mysteria	Hotel Manager	—	2011
100%	Teenage Paparazzo	Actor	—	2010
71%	Lovely, Still	Robert Malone Executive Producer	$0.2M	2010
No Score Yet	Billy	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Ivory	Actor	—	2010
57%	9	#2	$31.7M	2009
No Score Yet	Billy: The Early Years	Charles Templeton (Older)	$0.4M	2008
53%	City of Ember	Sul	$7.8M	2008
No Score Yet	David & Fatima	Rabbi Schmulic	—	2008
No Score Yet	Harrison Montgomery	Harrison Montgomery Executive Producer	—	2008
No Score Yet	Brando	Actor	—	2007
12%	The Aryan Couple, (The Couple)	Josef Krauzenberg	—	2005
No Score Yet	James Dean: Sense Memories	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	An Existential Affair	Actor	—	2004
83%	Broadway: The Golden Age	Actor	—	2004
27%	Wake	Older Sebastian	—	2004
No Score Yet	Eye of the Stranger	Actor	—	2004
30%	Hollywood Homicide	Jerry Duran	$30.1M	2003
42%	The Majestic	Harry Trimble	—	2001
46%	Shiner	Frank Spedding	—	2001
No Score Yet	Haven	Papa Gruber	—	2001
No Score Yet	In the Beginning	Abraham	—	2000
12%	Get Carter	Actor	$14.6M	2000
23%	Ready to Rumble	Sal Bandini	—	2000
67%	Sleepy Hollow	Van Garrett (uncredited)	—	1999
No Score Yet	Las Nuevas Aventuras de Pinocho	Mister Geppetto	—	1999
No Score Yet	Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (The Youngest Godfather)	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Joyriders	Gordon Trout	—	1999
63%	EDtv	Al	—	1999
No Score Yet	Carlo's Wake	Actor	—	1999
65%	Rounders	Professor Petrovsky	—	1998
64%	The X-Files - Fight the Future	Dr. Alvin Kurtzwell	—	1998
No Score Yet	Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's	Actor	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Long Way Home	Actor	—	1997
13%	B.A.P.S.	Mr. Blakemore	—	1997
27%	Les Aventures de Pinocchio	Geppetto	—	1996
54%	City Hall	Judge Walter Stern	—	1996
No Score Yet	Joseph	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	Color of Evening	Actor	—	1995
92%	Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi	—	1994
7%	Intersection	Neal	—	1994
No Score Yet	12:01	Dr. Thadius Moxley	—	1993
12%	Sliver	Alex Parsons	—	1993
No Score Yet	No Place to Hide	Frank	—	1993
No Score Yet	Eye of the Stranger	Mayor Howard Bains	—	1993
No Score Yet	Legacy of Lies	Abraham Resnick	—	1992
No Score Yet	Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story	Jerry Gertz	—	1992
69%	Mistress	Roth	—	1991
No Score Yet	Firehead	Admiral Pendleton	—	1991
No Score Yet	Real Bullets	Actor	—	1990
No Score Yet	Max and Helen	Simon Wiesenthal	—	1990
No Score Yet	By Dawn's Early Light	President	—	1990
93%	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Judah Rosenthal	—	1989
No Score Yet	Paint It Black	Daniel Lambert	—	1989
No Score Yet	The Neon Empire	Max	—	1989
84%	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Abe /Voice of Walter Winchell	—	1988
No Score Yet	Empire State	Chuck	—	1988
No Score Yet	Sweet Revenge	Cicero	—	1987
No Score Yet	Lethal Victims	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	W.A.R.	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	Return of Six-Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman	Stenning	—	1987
No Score Yet	Run If You Can	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	Cyclone	Bosarian	—	1987
No Score Yet	Kung Fu: The Movie	John Martin Perkins III	—	1986
No Score Yet	L'Ile Au Trésor	Old captain	—	1985
No Score Yet	Access Code	Agency Head	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Being	Garson Jones	—	1983
78%	Alone in the Dark	Byron 'Preacher' Sutcliff	—	1982
No Score Yet	The Fall of the House of Usher	Roderick Usher	—	1982
No Score Yet	The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island	Actor	—	1981
No Score Yet	Without Warning (It Came Without Warning) (Alien Encounters)	Actor	—	1980
No Score Yet	The Alien's Return	Niles Buchanan	—	1980
5%	Meteor	Gen. Adlon	—	1979
No Score Yet	Beyond Reason	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	Aliens from Spaceship Earth	Actor	—	1977
No Score Yet	Shadows in an Empty Room	Dr. George Tracer	—	1976
No Score Yet	Alien Attack	Commander John Koenig	—	1976
No Score Yet	Destination: Moonbase Alpha	Commander John Koenig	—	1975
No Score Yet	Journey Through the Black Sun	Commander John Koenig	—	1975
No Score Yet	Cosmic Princess	Commander John Koenig	—	1975
No Score Yet	Savage	Paul Savage	—	1973
No Score Yet	Columbo: Double Shock	Actor	—	1973
No Score Yet	Black Gunn	Capelli	—	1972
No Score Yet	Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol	Johnny Bristol	—	1972
No Score Yet	A Town Called Hell	The Colonel	—	1971
60%	They Call Me Mister Tibbs	Logan Sharpe	—	1970
No Score Yet	Mission Impossible Versus the Mob	Actor	—	1968
57%	Nevada Smith	Jesse Coe	—	1966
No Score Yet	The Hallelujah Trail	Chief Walks-Stooped-Over	—	1965
37%	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Caiaphas	—	1965
55%	Cleopatra	Rufio	—	1963
100%	North by Northwest	Leonard	—	1959
No Score Yet	The Gazebo	The Duke	—	1959
No Score Yet	Pork Chop Hill	Marshall	—	1959

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2013 2012
No Score Yet	The Simpsons 1989	Voice	2011
No Score Yet	In Plain Sight 2008-2012	Joe Tancredi	2009
No Score Yet	Without a Trace 2002-2009	Frank Malone	2009 2005 2004
67%	Entourage 2004-2011	Guest Bob Ryan	2008 2006
No Score Yet	The Twilight Zone 1985-1989	William Cooper-Janes	1985
No Score Yet	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Major Ivan Kuchenko Hotaling	1964 1959

Quotes from Martin Landau's Characters

Victor:	Nobody likes scientists.
Mr. Rzykruski:	They like what science gives them, but not the questions, no. Not the questions that science asks.
Victor:	[Thinks for a second] Actually, I have a question.
Victor:	[thinks for a second] Actually, I have a question.
Mr. Rzykruski:	He, he. That is why you are a scientist.
Victor:	I was doing my experiment, my project, and the first time it worked great, but the next time it didn't. I mean, it sort of worked, but then it didn't. And I don't know why.
Mr. Rzykruski:	Then maybe you never really understood it the first time. People think science is here [points to his head], but it is also here [places his hand on his chest]. The first time, did you love your experiment?
Victor:	Yes. [Thinks of Sparky licking his hand]
Victor:	Yes. [thinks of Sparky licking his hand]
Mr. Rzykruski:	And the second time?
Victor:	[Thinks of the invisible fish] No. I just wanted it over.
Mr. Rzykruski:	Then you changed the variables.
Victor:	I was doing it for the wrong reason.
Mr. Rzykruski:	Science is not good or bad, Victor. But it can be used both ways. That is why you must always be careful.

Bela Lugosi:

I refuse to drive in this country. Too many madmen.

Bela Lugosi:	GODDAMN, it's cold!
Ed Wood:	It'll warm up once you're in it.
Bela Lugosi:	FUCK YOU! You come out here!

Ed Wood:	Boy, Mr. Lugosi, you must lead such an exciting life! When is your next picture coming out?
Bela Lugosi:	I have no next picture.
Ed Wood:	You gotta be joking, a great star like you? You must have dozens of them lined up!
Bela Lugosi:	Back in the old days, yes... Now, no one gives two fucks for Bela.
Ed Wood:	But you're a big star!
Bela Lugosi:	No more. I haven't worked in four years. This business, this town, it chews you up, then spits you out. [pauses] I'm just an ex-boogeyman
Bela Lugosi:	No more. I haven't worked in four years. This business, this town, it chews you up, then spits you out. [pauses] I'm just an ex-boogeyman.

Ed Wood:	[Bela Lugosi casts a love spell on Vampira who is on TV while moving his fingers like Dracula] My Gosh, Bela, how do you do that?
Bela Lugosi:	You must be double-jointed. And you must be Hungarian
Bela Lugosi:	You must be double-jointed. And you must be Hungarian.

Mr. Rzykruski:	People think science is here (points to mind), but it also here (touches heart).
Mr. Rzykruski:	People think science is here [points to mind] but it also here. [touches heart]

Mr. Rzykruski:	The first time did you love your experiment?
Victor Frankenstein:	Yes.
Mr. Rzykruski:	Ah. And the second time?
Victor Frankenstein:	No, I just wanted it over.
Mr. Rzykruski:	Then you changed the variables.

Mr. Rzykruski:

Science is not good or bad Victor, but it can be used both ways. That is why you must always be careful.

Bela Lugosi:

Lets shoot this fucker!

Bela Lugosi:	Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit
Bela Lugosi:	Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit.

Mr. Rzykruski:

They like what science gives them but not the questions no, not the questions the science asks.

Bela Lugosi:	These lines,... I'll have no problem remembering.
Bela Lugosi:	These lines... I'll have no problem remembering.

Mr. Rzykruski:

You are afraid of what you do not understand, like a dog is afraid of lightning or balloons.

Bela Lugosi:	The blood, the blood is horror
Bela Lugosi:	The blood, the blood is horror.

Harry Trimble:

I mean, this television thing. Why would you want to stay at home and watch a little box? Because it's convenient? Because you don't have to get dressed up, because you could just sit there? I mean, how can you call that entertainment, alone in your living room? Where's the other people? Where's the audience? Where's the magic? I'll tell you, in a place like this, the magic is all around you.The trick is to see it.

Doon Harrow:	What does this do?
Sul:	I don't know. That's not my job.

#2:	Some things in this world are better left where they lie. But if you know where to look, these ruins are full of riches.

Bela Lugosi:

They don't want the classic horror films anymore. Today it's all giant bugs. Giant spiders, giant grasshoppers... Who would believe such nonsense?

Bela Lugosi:

Bullshit, Im ready now. Roll the camera!

Judah Rosenthal:

Without God the world is a cesspool.

Ed Wood:	your like the got ... the pupet master
Ed Wood:	Your like the got... the pupet master.
Bela Lugosi:	ahhhh so i pull the string
Bela Lugosi:	Ahhhh so I pull the string.
Ed Wood:	pull the strings!..... i like that
Ed Wood:	Pull the strings... I like that.

Ed Wood:	transvestites i need transvietites
Ed Wood:	Transvestites, I need transvestites
Ed Wood:	Transvestites, I need transvestites.
Bela Lugosi:	eddy what kind of a movie were makeing
Bela Lugosi:	Eddy what kind of a movie were making?

Bela Lugosi:	HOW DARE THAT ASSHOLE MENTION KARLOFF!?
Bela Lugosi:	How dare that asshole bring up Karloff?

Bela Lugosi:

Shit! There is my transport!

Bela Lugosi:	Karloff? Sidekick? F#Â¤K YOU!!!
Bela Lugosi:	Karloff? Sidekick? FUCK YOU!

Bela Lugosi:

[After the mob at the 'Bride of the Monster' premiere tried attacking them.] Now that was a premiere.

#2:	If you know where to look, these ruins are full of riches.

Bela Lugosi:

Pull the string! Pull the string!

Bela Lugosi:

FUCK YOU! You come out here!

Bela Lugosi:	If you want to make out with a young lady, take her to see Dracula; heh, heh, heh.
Bela Lugosi:	If you want to make out with a young lady, take her to see Dracula.