“Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.”

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.