Martin Landau

Landau and Bain married in 1957 and divorced in 1993. See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. He has two daughters, Susan and Juliet, from his marriage to Space: 1999 (and Mission Impossible) co-star Barbara Bain. Massey has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 1719 Vine Street and one for television at 6708 Hollywood Blvd. He was also nominated for Oscars for his roles in Tucker and Crimes and Misdemeanors. On July 29, 1983 he died in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia and is buried in New Haven, Connecticut. 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. His brother was Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.

Some of the actors he has coached include Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston. He has two children who followed him into acting: Anna Massey and Daniel Massey. Encouraged by his mentor Lee Strasberg, Landau also taught acting. Massey became well-known on television in the 1950s and 1960s, especially in his role as Doctor Gillespie in the series Doctor Kildare. 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. Following the war, he became an American citizen. 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. He rejoined the Canadian Army during World War II, and was wounded and invalided out in 1943.

He is perhaps most well known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966 - 1969) and Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977). Despite being Canadian, Massey became famous for his quintessential American roles, as Abraham Lincoln in 1940's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), in 1941's Santa Fe Trail, in which he played abolitionist John Brown, and as Lincoln again in 1962's How the West Was Won. Martin Landau (born June 20, 1931) is an American film and television actor. Early in Massey's career, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), heard Massey perform and was struck by the close similarity of Massey's speaking voice to that of his father. Pork Chop Hill (1959). G. Wells' Things to Come. North by Northwest (1959). In 1936 he starred in H.

Cleopatra (1963). His first movie role was High Treason in 1927, and he played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band in the following year. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). However, drawn to the theater, in 1922 he appeared on the London stage. Mission: Impossible (1966-69) TV Series. Severely wounded in action in France, he was sent home where he eventually worked in the family business, selling farm implements. They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970). His first stage appearance was in Siberia, where he entertained the American troops who were on occupation duty.

Space: 1999 (1975-77) TV Series. At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Canadian Army. The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981). He was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto and at Balliol College, Oxford, England. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982). Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Hart Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988). Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 - July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor.

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).