Martin Landau, American actor, who starred in
the 1960s television show 'Mission: Impossible'
and won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in the
movie 'Ed Wood', is dead at 89.
Martin Landau wins Oscar award
Martin Landau, 89, a character actor who starred
in the 1960s television show "Mission:
Impossible" and won an Oscar for playing Bela
Lugosi in the movie "Ed Wood," died Saturday,
his publicist Dick Guttman said Sunday night.
Landau died at UCLA Medical Center in Los
Angeles following "unexpected complications
during a short hospitalization," Guttman said in a
statement according to CNN.
Landau was born June 28, 1928, in Brooklyn and
worked as a cartoonist for the New York Daily
News before becoming an actor, according to the
Internet Movie Database.
Landau's career spanned the decades. In 1957 he
had a part in the play "Middle of the Night," with
Edward G. Robinson and ended up on the West
Coast, according to the Internet Movie Database.
To the general public, Landau was best known to
the public for playing master of disguise Rollin
Hand for a top-secret spy team in the 1960s
series "Mission: Impossible," in which his then-
wife Barbara Bain also starred.
Landau's first big movie role was in Alfred
Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." He also had
supporting roles in "Cleopatra" and other movies
and appeared in numerous television shows,
including "The Twilight Zone."
Near the end of his career, he played Bob Ryan,
an aging movie producer in the HBO series
"Entourage." The character's catchphrase, with an
exaggerated idea followed by "would that be
something you'd be interested in?" became
something of a pop culture joke.
Guttman said funeral services will be private
followed by a memorial service in August or
September.
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