“Sergio Leone came to see me when I was doing 'Mission Impossible.' He wanted me to do 'A Fistful of Dollars.' I turned him down. I didn't want to get stuck as a stoic Western movie star.”

American actor

Martin James Landau was an American actor of the late 20th century. His career began in the late 1950s, and he became known for work in film and television. He had an early supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest in 1959. His wider breakthrough came through leading roles in Mission: Impossible from 1966 to 1969 and Space: 1999 from 1975 to 1977.