Martin Landau made a career in film at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Martin Landau as American actor (1928–2017).
Martin Landau was born at Brooklyn in 1928. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Pratt Institute and James Madison High School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as film actor, television actor and stage actor.
His name is attached above all to performances in Cleopatra, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Rounders, Sleepy Hollow, and Remember. Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
His recorded fields of work are acting and film.
Recognition followed: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1995).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Martin Landau died in 2017, aged 89. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — 1995
- Educated at Pratt Institute and James Madison High School
- Worked as film actor, television actor and stage actor
