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RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:59 pm
by Bob Juch
Martin Landau, the all-purpose actor who showcased his versatility as a master of disguise on the Mission: Impossible TV series and as a broken-down Bela Lugosi in his Oscar-winning performance in Ed Wood, has died. He was 89.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/m ... ood-811318
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:28 am
by T_Bone0806
Hmmm...he was one of those in my "I thought he was already..." mental files.
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:05 am
by SportsFan68
I thought he was awesome in Mission: Impossible and was thrilled when he won the Oscar for Ed Wood.
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:44 am
by silverscreenselect
Unlike some older actors, he did solid work up until the end. One of his last movies was Remember opposite Christopher Plummer. It's a modern day Holocaust drama with the two of them as aging survivors in a nursing home, directed by Atom Egoyan, one of the better independent directors around. I highly recommend it if you have a chance to catch it on video.
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:25 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
Besides the aforementioned works, I thought he was in one of the better of the (original) Outer Limits episodes, "The Man Who Was Never Born."
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:04 pm
by Vandal
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:13 pm
by BackInTex
Vandal wrote:
fail
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:31 pm
by silverscreenselect
BackInTex wrote:Vandal wrote:
fail
An especially big fail since they walked away from
Mission Impossible at the height of its popularity. It took 15 years for him to get his career back on track (when he got an Oscar nomination for
Tucker). Her career never recovered.
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:16 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
silverscreenselect wrote:An especially big fail since they walked away from Mission Impossible at the height of its popularity. It took 15 years for him to get his career back on track (when he got an Oscar nomination for Tucker). Her career never recovered.
Did they quit
MI, or were they pushed (like Steven Hill was after season one)?
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:19 pm
by Bob Juch
SpacemanSpiff wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:An especially big fail since they walked away from Mission Impossible at the height of its popularity. It took 15 years for him to get his career back on track (when he got an Oscar nomination for Tucker). Her career never recovered.
Did they quit
MI, or were they pushed (like Steven Hill was after season one)?
They quit due to a salary dispute.
Re: RIP Martin Landau
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:23 pm
by earendel
SpacemanSpiff wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:An especially big fail since they walked away from Mission Impossible at the height of its popularity. It took 15 years for him to get his career back on track (when he got an Oscar nomination for Tucker). Her career never recovered.
Did they quit
MI, or were they pushed (like Steven Hill was after season one)?
I wouldn't say that Hill was pushed. He refused to tape on Friday evenings because of his Orthodox Judaism and the producers refused to accommodate his beliefs. At least that's how I understood it.