It's not every day you get to speak to a screen legend, and it was a privilege I got a couple of weeks ago when I received a phone call from Martin Landau. An Academy Award winner (and 3-time nominee), Landau has been a working actor for more than 50 years, from his star-making turn as the villainous Leonard in Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "North By Northwest" to his infamously ill-fated role on TV's "Mission: Impossible" to Oscar-nominated roles as an automobile manufacturer in "Tucker: The Man and His Dream," a philandering optometrist in Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and a haunting portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" (for which he won Best Supporting Actor in 1994).
An Interview with Martin Landau
An Interview with Martin Landau
An Interview with Martin Landau
It's not every day you get to speak to a screen legend, and it was a privilege I got a couple of weeks ago when I received a phone call from Martin Landau. An Academy Award winner (and 3-time nominee), Landau has been a working actor for more than 50 years, from his star-making turn as the villainous Leonard in Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "North By Northwest" to his infamously ill-fated role on TV's "Mission: Impossible" to Oscar-nominated roles as an automobile manufacturer in "Tucker: The Man and His Dream," a philandering optometrist in Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and a haunting portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" (for which he won Best Supporting Actor in 1994).