Hollywood star, popular film actor Martin Landau was born in Brooklyn on June 20, 1931. He is an elder of American cinema. This is the real patriarch of Hollywood. And today, Martin Landau, who is already eighty-four years old, is actively involved in film projects, and young actors can envy his hard work and endurance. Landau brings tangible benefits on the set - he is an inexhaustible source of professionalism. Not only actors learn from the master, but also directors try to learn something new for themselves. And the coryphaeus of American cinema is happy to share experience.
Career
Martin Landau, whose biography contains the most unexpected twists, including fateful ones, is considered the most successful representative of the US film industry. His acting role evolved in a somewhat unusual way, the characters were mostly from the underworld. Moreover, Martin Landau most often played the main characters in low-profile action films, and in films of a higher rank he had to be content with secondary roles. This is the specifics of Hollywood, where any role should be taken for granted and played it with full dedication.
Craftsmanship and appeal
Nevertheless, Martin Landau, whose filmography includes more than one hundred and forty roles, became a kind of record holder for the number of filmed film material. In the Hollywood archive, paintings with his participation occupy a separate shelf. In addition, Martin Landau, whose photos were also reproduced in record numbers, can claim the honorary title of one of America's most striking sex symbols. His appearance in adulthood drove crazy a good half of the female population in the United States and Europe.
Competitiveness
At one time, Landau attended a training course in acting in the workshop of Lee Strasberg. Once at a casting in the film company "Twentieth Century Fox," Martin was selected as the best candidate for a role among two thousand applicants. But for all his popularity, he did not fit into Hollywood standards, such as Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. This circumstance, however, did not bother the actor; he confidently occupied a niche in American cinema and successfully played his colorful characters.
Martin Landau is a universal actor, starred in many television series, one of which was the film "Mission Impossible." In several episodes, Martin played with his wife Barbara Bane, this duet was considered very productive. The spouses also left the project together, none of them wished to act with other partners.
The lull in creativity
There were in the career of Martin Landau and "dead seasons", when he has not starred in any film for years. That lull period was a fifteen-year hiatus from 1973 to 1988. However, in 1988, returning to the cinema, Landau immediately played such a role that earned him an Oscar nomination, despite the fact that the character was of a secondary plan.
Awards
During his long career in cinema, Martin Landau was nominated nine times for Emmy, Oscar and BAFTA. He was also awarded five times the highest prizes of American cinema, among which were:
- Golden Globe is the first actor’s award in 1968 for participating in the Mission Impossible television series.
- Another Golden Globe was awarded to Landau in 1989, for Best Supporting Actor in the movie Tucker: The Man and the Dream.
- In 1995, he received his first Oscar in the nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Ed Wood.
- For the same role, the actor was awarded the third Golden Globe Award in 1995.
- Then, for participating in the film "Ed Wood" he was awarded the United States Film Actors Guild Award.
Personal life
Martin Landau was married only once. In this, he also set a kind of record, because against the background of numerous marriages and divorces in Hollywood, his family alliance looks at least unnatural. Nevertheless, the actor was monogamous. The reasons for the divorce remained unknown, there were several attempts by the newspapermen to somehow justify this event, but each time there was a tough refutation from Barbara Bane. In several cases, editorial offices had to pay fines for “posting slanderous material,” after which the reporters quieted down.
Martin made an offer to his wife in early 1957, and on January 31 they signed. His chosen one was the American actress Barbara Bane. Young people were peers, they had many points of contact, common professional interests. Therefore, their marriage lasted more than thirty-five years, and during this time the couple repeatedly appeared on various film sets hand in hand. Nevertheless, in 1993, the star couple divorced. This happened without any preludes, which are usually distinguished by long-term marriages. The divorce followed spontaneously, but the judge did not even give time for reconciliation of the parties, the decision to terminate the marriage was made immediately, by mutual agreement.
Martin Landau, whose children remained with his mother after the divorce, suffered from loneliness. However, having a real opportunity to re-create a family, he did not seize the chance and continue to live alone.
Martin Landau today
Currently, the elderly actor lives in West Hollywood, in his own house in complete solitude. He tries to spend as much time as possible on the set, since there is no shortage of roles for him. The vast experience gained over many years of working in the movie helps the actor play the most complex characters.