Jeffrey Hunter

Hunter's two previous marriages included actress Barbara Rush in the early 1950s. Landau and Bain married in 1957 and divorced in 1993. He died the following day from his injuries. He has two daughters, Susan and Juliet, from his marriage to Space: 1999 (and Mission Impossible) co-star Barbara Bain. In May 1969, shortly after marrying actress Emily McLaughlin, he suffered a cerebrovascular accident while at home, causing a fall and a skull fracture. He was also nominated for Oscars for his roles in Tucker and Crimes and Misdemeanors. With the demise of the studio contract system in the early 1960s and the out-sourcing of much feature production, Hunter like many other leading men of the 1950s had to find work in B-pictures produced in Europe, Hong Kong, and Mexico, with the occasional television guest part in Hollywood. After his successes in Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999, Landau moved on to a fruitful film career which included an Academy Award winning role as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood.

But Hunter was soon filming the pilot for yet another NBC series, the espionage thriller Journey Into Fear, which the network failed to pick up and a motion picture called Brainstorm (1965). Some of the actors he has coached include Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston. Although Temple Houston did not survive its first season, NBC offered him the lead role of Captain Christopher Pike in the pilot episode (The Cage) of a new science fiction series, Star Trek. His pensive take on the role was in contrast to the more idiosyncratic style of William Shatner, who took the part after Hunter, deciding to concentrate on motion pictures, declined to film a second Star Trek pilot requested by NBC in 1965. Encouraged by his mentor Lee Strasberg, Landau also taught acting. that included starring as a circuit-riding Texas lawyer in the NBC series Temple Houston (1963-64), which Hunter's production company co-produced. He attended the Actor's Studio in the same class with Steve McQueen and in 1957, Landau made his Broadway debut in Middle of the Night. Having guest starred on television dramas since the mid-1950s, Hunter was now offered a two-year contract by Warner Bros. Landau was born in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of 17 began working as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News, but influenced by Charlie Chaplin and the escapism of the cinema, he pursued becoming an actor.

Among an all-star cast in the World War II battle epic The Longest Day (1962), he provided the climactic heroic act of breaching the defense wall atop Normandy's Omaha Beach. He is perhaps most well known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966 - 1969) and Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977). Ford also recommended Hunter to director Nicholas Ray for the role of Jesus in the biblical King of Kings (1961), a difficult part met by critical reaction that ranged from praise to ridicule. Martin Landau (born June 20, 1931) is an American film and television actor. A loan-out to co-star with John Wayne in the title roles of the now-classic western The Searchers (1956) began the first of three pictures he made with director John Ford, followed by The Last Hurrah (1958) and Sergeant Rutledge (1960). Pork Chop Hill (1959). Hunter's handsome looks and gentle manner recalled two earlier Fox stars, Tyrone Power and the young Henry Fonda. North by Northwest (1959).

He made his Hollywood debut in Fourteen Hours (1951), had star billing by Red Skies of Montana (1952), and first billing in Sailor of the King (1953). Cleopatra (1963). In 1950, while a graduate student in radio at the University of California, Los Angeles and appearing in a college play, he was spotted by talent scouts and offered a two-year motion picture contract by 20th Century Fox that was eventually extended to 1959. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). He served stateside in the United States Navy in World War II, then studied drama at Northwestern University. Mission: Impossible (1966-69) TV Series. He was born Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970).

Jeffrey Hunter (November 25, 1926 - May 27, 1969) was a film and television actor. Space: 1999 (1975-77) TV Series. The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981). The Fall of the House of Usher (1982). Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988).

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). By Dawn's Early Light. Sliver (1993). Eye of the Stranger (1993).

Intersection (1994). Ed Wood (1994) (Academy Award winner, Best Supporting Actor). The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998). The Joyriders (1999).

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999). Sleepy Hollow (1999). The Majestic (2001). Hollywood Homicide (2003).