On the same day as George Romero…
Martin Landau, Oscar Winner for ‘Ed Wood,’ Dies at 89
Mission: Impossible, Space 1999, (And he was almost Spock.)
Are they sure it’s him?
RIP
He would have made a great Spock. His Lugosi was sublime. RIP.
Superb in every single role he played. RIP.
Such a fine actor. May he rest in peace.
So true.
Crimes and Misdemeanors, e.g.
Well, maybe not all… 
Is it bad that I thought he was already dead?
RIP
He was in one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. RIP
That’s what I was going to post, I thought he died a while ago. But now I think I was thinking about Walter Matthau.
JKellyMap wrote: "Well, maybe not all… "
Hey, even, in a stinker he’d put in a good performance. He earned his money, even if he must have needed it really badly to have done that.
Let me be the first to mention Outer Limits: “The Man who was Never Born.”
I always liked his Roofs too.
Me too! I swear I thought he’d died a long time ago.
RIP, Marty. We hardly knew ye.
He started as a cartoonist for the NY Daily News.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/entertainment/martin-landau-job-daily-news-cartoonist-article-1.3331390
I always think of him with his ex wife Barbara Bain. They were quite a team on Mission Impossible.
I checked and she’s still alive, 85 years old.
Landau had so many great roles.
RIP
I really like this clip of Martin and Barbara. They aren’t singers. Their acting chops makes it work.
Glad to hear this! I suspected as much, but wasn’t about to verify it by adding “Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island” to my Netflix queue.
Space 1999 was the first non-kiddie TV show I ever watched, and Landau’s acting made a permanent impression on me even as a six-year-old.
The first thing I ever saw him in was a Columbo episode where, for once, our hero can’t tell whether he’s trying to trip up the obvious murder suspect or whether he’s pestering an innocent man who wasn’t even there: Landau is playful or he’s angrily ranting or he’s relaxed and matter-of-fact or he’s showy and theatrical like a TV star; and none of that works unless you also buy him as a guy who could’ve killed someone in cold blood, but he of course manages to sell that possibility.
He was also Leonard, James Mason’s henchman, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, who almost kills Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill by stepping on his fingers as he hangs off Mount Rushmore.
A long and interesting career. When he appeared as Bela Lusosi in Ed Wood, I had a vision of Peter Graves as Jim Phelps telling Master of Disguise Landau as Rollin Hand: “For this next assignment, you’re going to have to look like Bela Lugosi…”
(It’s interesting, in light of his almost getting the Spock role that he was replaced on Mission Impossible as Master of Disguise by Leonard Nimoy)
“Karloff? Sidekick? FUCK YOU! Karloff does not deserve to smell my SHIT! That Limey cocksucker can rot in hell for all I care!” 
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He was also Leonard, James Mason’s henchman, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, who almost kills Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill by stepping on his fingers as he hangs off Mount Rushmore.
CNN says he was sinister gay henchman.
The character was gay? I do not remember sexual orientation being mentioned.