Martin Landau - biography

“And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.”

“Everything that has happened to me is of value to me.  As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there’s a use for those things in my life and in my work.”

“I’m very proud of Space 1999.  Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow.  My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans.”

“I’ve always been interested in science fiction.”

“Bad guys don’t think they’re bad guys.  Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.”

“I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take.  That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.”

“I did theatrical caricatures.”

“Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.”

“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.”

“You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, ‘Things happen for a reason’, there’s a fatalistic thing about it.  Something will happen that will justify it in some way.”

Martin Landau has appeared in the following films:
North by Northwest (1959)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
The Gazebo (1959)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Nevada Smith (1966)
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
Rosolino Paternò, soldato... (1970)
A Town Called Hell (1971)
Meteor (1979)
Without Warning (1980)
Alone in the Dark (1982)
The Being (1983)
Treasure Island (1985)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Firehead (1991)
Mistress (1992)
Sliver (1993)
No Place to Hide (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
Intersection (1994)
The Color of Evening (1994)
City Hall (1996)
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
The Elevator (1996)
B*A*P*S (1997)
Rounders (1998)
The X Files (1998)
Edtv (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Carlo’s Wake (1999)
Shiner (2000)
Very Mean Men (2000)
Ready to Rumble (2000)
The Majestic (2001)
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
The Commission (2003)
David & Fatima (2008)
Lovely, Still (2008)
9 (2009)
Mysteria (2011)