The Life and Times of Martin Landau

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Academy Award winning actor Martin Landau sits on his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as he poses for photographers during ceremonies to honor him, in Hollywood, December 17, 2001.
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Martin Landau arrives at the 2009 AFI Fest and Warner Home Video's DVD Release of "North By Northwest" on November 2, 2009 in Hollywood, California.
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Martin Landau, actor and former Daily News Employee, at work in the Daily News Art Dept in 1951.
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Actor Martin Landau died following complications during a stay at UCLA Medical Center on July 15, 2017; he was 89. Landau was well-known for his roles in "Mission: Impossible" and "Ed Wood", the latter of which won him an an Academy Award in 1994. Landau also enjoyed an early career as a cartoonist, beginning his career at the Daily News as a staff cartoonist and illustrator when he was just 17. He's also had notable roles in "North by Northwest", "Cleopatra", "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors".
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Martin Landau and daughter, Susan Landau Finch, arrive at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California February 22, 2015.
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Martin Landau arrives for the European premiere of the film "Frankenweenie" at the Odeon Leicester Square in central London October 10, 2012.
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Martin Landau holds the Screen Actors Guild Award he won for outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role for his role in the film "Ed Wood" at the first-ever televised awards show for the organization in Los Angeles, February 25, 1995.

By New York Daily News | NYDN@medianewsgroup.com

PUBLISHED: July 17, 2017 at 4:21 p.m. | UPDATED: April 7, 2018 at 3:50 p.m.

Martin Landau, the legendary actor, died Saturday at 89. The Brooklyn native began his career at the New York Daily News as a staff cartoonist and illustrator before quitting to pursue acting. He made his film debut in 1959 in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest,” before moving to TV in the ’60s to star in the “Mission: Impossible” series for three seasons. Landau also won the 1994 Best Supporting Oscar for his role as horror film star Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood.”