The WOW Report

  • WOW Report
  • About
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race Live!
  • WOW Presents Plus
  • What to Watch
  • Store
You are here: Home / Entertainment / #RIP: Oscar-Winning Actor, Martin Landau

#RIP: Oscar-Winning Actor, Martin Landau

By Trey Speegle on July 17, 2017 3:11 am

Landau with Johnny Depp in “Ed Wood”

Martin Landau, who starred in the 60s TV show Mission: Impossible and won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in the movie Ed Wood, died on Saturday. His publicist Dick Guttman released the news Sunday night in a statement,

Landau died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles following

“unexpected complications during a short hospitalization.”

Landau worked as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News before becoming an actor and in 1957 he landed a part in a play, Middle of the Night, with Edward G. Robinson.

His first big movie role was in Hitchcock‘s North by Northwest but Landau’s big break was playing master of disguise Rollin Hand for a top-secret spy team in the 60s series Mission: Impossible, in which his then-wife Barbara Bain also starred. In 1969. Landau and Bain both left the series in a salary dispute and his career suffered.

But over his long career he was nominated for three Academy Awards for best supporting actor, in Francis Coppola‘s Tucker in 1988; in Woody Allen‘s Crimes and Misdemeanors in 1989; and as the aging horror movie star and heroin addict, Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton‘s Ed Wood in 1994. He won the Oscar for Ed Wood.

Near the end of his career, he played Bob Ryan, an aging movie producer in the HBO series Entourage. His catchphrase was

“would that be something you’d be interested in?”

Funeral services will be private and a memorial service will be held in August or September.

Martin Landau was 89.

(via CNN)

Show the love:

  • Tweet
  • Share on Tumblr

Filed Under: Entertainment, Life, Movies, RIP

More

ABBA! Nick Offerman! Murray Bartlett! David Bowie! The WOW Report for Radio Andy!

ABBA! Nick Offerman! Murray Bartlett! David Bowie! The WOW Report for Radio Andy!

by Blake Jacobs on February 3, 2023 11:00 am

Adam Joseph Reimagines Loosey LaDuca’s Talent Show Track “Let Loose”- Listen

Adam Joseph Reimagines Loosey LaDuca’s Talent Show Track “Let Loose”- Listen

by Paisley Dalton on January 31, 2023 9:28 am

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Trending


#TikTokTrend: Madonna Dancing to Gaga’s ‘Bloody Mary’ Has Fans Kinda Freaking TF Out –Watch

Robert Fux, Farao Groth & Kayo Are Sashaying to the ‘Drag Race Sverige’ Judging Panel

Monét X Change & Bob the Drag Queen Launch New Line, BOMO Beauty

The LOOK George Santos Gives After Being Asked “Who Do You Think Will Win Drag Race..?” –Watch

#80ForBrady: Trixie Quizzes Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Sally Field & Rita Moreno –Watch

About

From the creators of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Party Monster, Million Dollar Listing, RuPaul's Drag Race, I Am Britney Jean, Big Freedia, and more.

Schiaperrelli! Madonna! Tom Hanks! Kylies Minogue & Jenner! The WOW Report for Radio Andy
Madonna! Joanna Lumley! Edgar Allan Poe! Jennifers Lopez AND Coolidge! The WOW Report for Radio Andy!
Prince Harry! Jennifer Coolidge! M3GAN! Jordan Peele! Randy Joins Us for the WOW Report for Radio Andy!
Rest in Perfection Barbara Walters and Anita Pointer! The WOW Report for Radio Andy!
ONJ! QE2! Leslie Jordan! Our In Memoriam Episode for 2002 on The WOW Report for Radio Andy

© 2021 World of Wonder Productions, Inc | World of Wonder is a trademark of World of Wonder Productions, Inc | Privacy

Copyright © 2023 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in