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Martin Landau
Landau in 2010
Born	(1928-06-20) June 20, 1928 (age 84)[1] Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, producer
Years active	1956–present
Spouse	Barbara Bain (m. 1957–1993) «start: (1957)–end+1: (1994)»"Marriage: Barbara Bain to Martin Landau" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Martin_Landau); divorced
Children	Susan Landau, Juliet Landau

Martin Landau (born June 20, 1928)^[1] is an American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations) and Space:1999. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture and his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994) earned him the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe. He continues to perform in film and television and heads the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio.

Early life[link]

Landau was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Selma and Morris Landau.^[2] His family was Jewish, and his father, an Austrian-born machinist, scrambled to rescue relatives from the Nazis.^[3] He attended James Madison High School and The Pratt Institute before finding full-time work as a cartoonist.^[4]

Career[link]

[edit] Cartoonist on The Gumps

At the age of 17, he began working as a cartoonist for the Daily News, illustrating Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" column and assisting Gus Edson on The Gumps comic strip during the 1940s and 1950s, eventually drawing the Sunday strip for Edson.^[5] (Some sources have confused him with the comic book artist Kenneth Landau and incorrectly claim that Martin Landau drew for comic books using the name Ken Landau as a pseudonym.)^[6] When he was 22, he quit the Daily News job in order to concentrate on theater.

Films, theater and TV[link]

Influenced by Charlie Chaplin and the escapism of the cinema, he pursued an acting career. He attended the Actors Studio, became good friends with iconic actor James Dean, and later was in the same class with Steve McQueen. In 1957, Landau made his Broadway debut in Middle of the Night. In 1959, Landau made his first major film appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

Landau took the role of master of disguise Rollin Hand in Mission: Impossible, becoming one of the TV show's better-known stars. According to The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier, by Patrick J. White (Avon Books, 1991), Landau initially declined to be contracted to the show as he did not want it to interfere with his film career; instead, for the first season he was credited in "special guest appearances by" him. He became a "full-time" cast member with the second season, although the studio agreed to only contract him on a year-by-year basis rather than the then-standard five years. The role of Rollin Hand required Landau to perform a wide range of accents and characters from dictators to thugs, and several episodes saw Landau playing dual roles—not only Hand's impersonation but also the person Hand is impersonating. He co-starred in the series with his then wife, Barbara Bain.

Landau (left) with Patrick Swayze, March 29, 1989

In the mid-1970s, Landau and Bain, teamed with Barry Morse, returned to television in the British science fiction series, Space: 1999, produced first by Gerry Anderson in partnership with Sylvia Anderson and then by Fred Freiberger. Although it remains a cult classic for its high production design values, the series was critically derided during its run and was cancelled after two seasons. Landau himself became very critical of the show's scripts and storylines, especially during its second season, but he praised the cast and crew. He wrote forewords for Barry Morse's 2006 theatrical memoir Remember with Advantages and for Jim Smith's critical biography of Tim Burton.

After Space: 1999, Landau appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television shows of varying quality, including The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island, which again co-starred Bain. This was the last time the two acted together on screen, as of December 2007.

Landau at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

In the late 1980s, Landau staged a major career comeback by winning an Academy Award nomination for his role in Tucker: The Man and His Dream. He later received a second nomination for Crimes and Misdemeanors and won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his uncanny portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood. Upon accepting the award, he was visibly frustrated by the orchestra's attempt to cut short his speech. When the music level rose, he pounded his fist on the podium and yelled "No!"^[7] He later stated that he had intended to thank Lugosi and dedicate the award to him and his frustration was that he did not get to mention the man whom he portrayed.^[8] Landau received a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe, and a Saturn Award for the role, as well as awards from several critics groups.^[9] When Landau won the Academy Award, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times said that "the award goes to Martin Landau; its shadow goes to Bela Lugosi." Landau admitted, on the Ed Wood DVD, to having been very impressed by the comment.

In 2006 Landau made a guest appearance on the TV series Entourage, playing a washed-up, but determined and sympathetic, Hollywood producer attempting to relive his glory days. Landau received a 2007 Emmy Award nomination for his performance in this role.

In June 2011 Landau began filming the Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-TV movie of Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith, in which he plays Rabbi Albert Lewis.^[10] The film had a "world premiere charity screening" November 16, 2011, in Royal Oak, Michigan, near Detroit.^[11] All ten theaters within the Emogine multiplex theater showed the film, with proceeds benefiting the "A Hole in the Roof Foundation" and the "Rabbi Albert Lewis Fund."^[11] The film premiered on ABC Sunday November 27, 2011, the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.^[12][13]

Acting coach[link]

Encouraged by his mentor Lee Strasberg, Landau also taught acting. Actors he has coached include Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston. In 2009, Landau, working with director Mark Rydell and screenwriter/playwright Lyle Kessler teamed up to produce an educational seminar, The Total Picture Seminar. It was an unusual two-day event covering the disciplines of acting, directing and writing for film. The three have worked together as a team for many decades at the Actors Studio teaching and coaching professional actors, writers, and directors.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Martin Landau has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6841 Hollywood Boulevard.

Personal life[link]

Landau has two daughters, Susan and Juliet, from his marriage to actress and former co-star Barbara Bain. Landau and Bain married on January 31, 1957, and divorced in 1993. Landau lives in West Hollywood, California.

Filmography[link]

Selected television[link]

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1999.
• Hellmann, Paul T. Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Florence, Ky.: Taylor and Francis, 2005.
• Laufenberg, Norbert. Entertainment Celebrities. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005.
• Riggs, Thomas. Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Detroit, Mich.: Gale/Cengage Learning, 2004.
• Stewart, John. Italian Film: A Who's Who. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1994.
• Welsh, James Michael; Phillips, Gene D.; and Hill, Rodney. The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010.
• Who's Who in Entertainment. Wilmette, Ill.: Marquis Who's Who, 1989.
• Willis, John and Monush, Barry. Screen World 2005 Film Annual. New York: Applause, 2006.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Martin Landau

• Martin Landau at the Internet Movie Database
• The Total Picture Seminar - A Seminar with Martin Landau, Mark Rydell, and Lyle Kessler covering filmmaking.

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Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara in Law of the Plainsman (1959)
Born	(1922-04-15) April 15, 1922 (age 90) Syria
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1944–2001
Spouse	Beverly Kushida (m. 1977) «start: (1977)»"Marriage: Beverly Kushida to Michael Ansara" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Michael_Ansara) Barbara Eden (1958-74) (divorced) Jean Byron (1949-56) (divorced)

Michael Ansara (born April 15, 1922) is a Syrian-born American stage, screen, and voice actor best known for his portrayal of Cochise in the American television series Broken Arrow, Kane in the 1979-81 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Commander Kang on three different Star Trek TV series, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart on the NBC series, Law of the Plainsman .

Biography[link]

Early life and career[link]

Ansara was born in Syria, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was two years old. They resided in Lowell, Massachusetts, for a decade before moving to California. He originally wanted to be a physician but developed a passion for becoming a performer after he began taking acting classes to overcome his shyness.

During the 1950s, Ansara appeared in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It was the popular TV series Broken Arrow (1956), wherein he played the lead role of Cochise, that raised Ansara's profile and made him a household name. While making the series, the 20th Century-Fox publicity department arranged a date between Ansara and actress Barbara Eden. The two later married and Ansara guest-starred on Eden's I Dream of Jeannie series as the Blue Djinn, who had imprisoned Jeannie in a bottle. He also played King Kamehameha in the Jeannie episode "The Battle of Waikiki" and in the final season he played Major Biff Jellico in the episode "My Sister, the Home Wrecker." Michael Ansara and Barbara Eden divorced in 1974. The couple had one son together, actor Matthew Ansara, who died on June 25, 2001, of a heroin overdose.

Ansara starred in his own ABC-TV series, Law of the Plainsman (1959-60), with Gina Gillespie and Robert Harland. He performed as an Apache Indian appointed as a U.S. Marshal named Sam Buckhart. The series began as an episode of The Rifleman. In 1961, he appeared as Carl in the episode "Night Visitors" of the NBC anthology series The Barbara Stanwyck Show.

Ansara also played in Biblical epics which were The Robe (1953) as Judas Iscariot, The Ten Commandments (1956) as a taskmaster (uncredited), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as Herod's commander. He also appeared as Belshazzar in Columbia's 1953 movie Slaves of Babylon.

Later career[link]

In 1961, Ansara played the role of Miguel Alvarez in the film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, co-starring with Barbara Eden and Walter Pidgeon, who played the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson. Ansara later appeared in an episode of the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, playing the rebel sub commander Captain Ruiz in "Killers Of The Deep" (1966). He also appeared in another episode as a Soviet scientist to disarm a defective Soviet atomic satellite that has crashed off the coast of California. The episode tile was "Hot Line" . The airdate was November 9, 1964.

In 1962, he starred in a Broadway show with famous silent film actor Ramon Novarro.

Ansara played The Ruler on episode 12, "The Challenge", of the TV series Lost in Space (March 2, 1966) with a young Kurt Russell as his son Quano and, later that same year, appeared in the feature film Texas Across the River with Dean Martin. He also appeared in 1966 as Red Sky in the Daniel Boone television series.

In 1967, Ansara guest-starred in the episode "A War for the Gravediggers" of the NBC western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett, and in the episode "The Savage Street" of the ABC action drama series The Fugitive with Gilbert Roland and Tom Nardini.

In 1969, Ansara guest-starred in the episode "On a Clear Night You Can See Earth" as Murtrah in the ABC TV series Land of the Giants.

Also in 1969, he starred as the sadistic militant Diego in the film "Guns of the Magnificent Seven."

In 1973, he guest-starred in "The Western", the penultimate episode of the original CBS TV series Mission: Impossible.

In 1976, he starred in the movie Mohammad, Messenger of God (also titled The Message), about the origin of Islam and the message of prophet Mohammad.

Ansara played Killer Kane in the 1979-1980 season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, having previously played two different characters in two episodes of the 1966 science fiction TV series The Time Tunnel. In episode #11, he played Colonel Hruda and in episode #28 he played The Curator. He also played the title role in the acclaimed The Outer Limits original series episode "Soldier", written by Harlan Ellison. He narrated Paul Goble's "The Gift of the Sacred Dog" at Crow Agency, Montana, on June 17, 1983, and Sheila MacGill Callahan's "And Still the Turtle Watched" on October 21, 1993, on the PBS series Reading Rainbow.

Also in 1979, he starred in the acclaimed miniseries Centennial, based on the novel by James A. Michener. In it, he played the great Indian leader Lame Beaver, whose descendants are showcased throughout the centuries alongside the growth of the West and the town that the novel and miniseries are named after.

In 1988, Ansara appeared in an episode of the TV series Murder, She Wrote entitled "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel".

In 1994, Ansara portrayed the Technomage Elric in the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 in the episode "The Geometry of Shadows".

In recent years, he performed voice-acting as Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series as well as one of its three spinoff animated movies, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, an episode of Batman Beyond ^[1] and the video game spinoff Batman Vengeance.

[edit] Star Trek

He is one of six actors to play the same character (Klingon Commander Kang) on three different Star Trek TV series - the original series ("Day of the Dove"), Deep Space Nine ("Blood Oath") and Voyager ("Flashback"). The other actors who hold this distinction are Jonathan Frakes (Riker; TNG, Voyager and Enterprise), Marina Sirtis (Troi; TNG, Voyager and Enterprise), Armin Shimerman (Quark; TNG, DS9 and Voyager), John de Lancie (Q; TNG, DS9 and Voyager), and Richard Poe (Gul Evek; TNG, DS9 and Voyager). Ansara also played Lwaxana Troi's husband Jeyal on the Deep Space Nine episode, "The Muse".

References[link]

External links[link]

• Michael Ansara at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Ansara at the Internet Broadway Database
• Michael Ansara at AllRovi
• Michael Ansara at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Michael Ansara on The Babylon Project, an external wiki