Martin Landau

Landau and Bain married in 1957 and divorced in 1993.
. He has two daughters, Susan and Juliet, from his marriage to Space: 1999 (and Mission Impossible) co-star Barbara Bain. His moustache was removed in the US version of the series. He was also nominated for Oscars for his roles in Tucker and Crimes and Misdemeanors. In Tiziano Sclavi's comic book series Dylan Dog, the hero's sidekick and assistant is called and looks like Groucho Marx. 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. Bugs Bunny befuddles Elmer Fudd memorably in "Wideo Wabbit" by imitating the mustachioed comedian in a "You Bet Your Life" parody called "You Beat Your Wife". Later he imitates Art Carney and slaps comical glasses on Elmer, admonishing "don't be such a Groucho".

Some of the actors he has coached include Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston. Dave Sim, in his controversial comic book Cerebus the Aardvark, cast Groucho as the slippery, wisecracking but indomitable Lord Julius, Grandlord of the bureaucrat-ridden City-state of Palnu. Encouraged by his mentor Lee Strasberg, Landau also taught acting. Gabe Kaplan personated him in the biographical Groucho (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084031/). 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. Alan Alda often vamped as Groucho on M*A*S*H. 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. Various Groucho-like characters have lived on since Marx's death, a testament to the character's lasting appeal.

He is perhaps most well known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966 - 1969) and Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977). He was cremated, and the ashes were entombed in the Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California. Martin Landau (born June 20, 1931) is an American film and television actor. Groucho Marx died on August 19, 1977. Pork Chop Hill (1959). Groucho was a master at improvising clever insults, and became well known for this. One of his frustrations in later years was that when he insulted people who annoyed him they tended to laugh, thinking it was just part of the famous comedian's act. North by Northwest (1959). His stage name, "Groucho," was said to have been bestowed on him because while in Vaudeville he kept his money in a bag around his neck known as a "grouch" bag. An alternate story is that he was grouchy.

Cleopatra (1963). In later years he grew a real mustache. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). Off-stage he was bookish and stated late in life that he lamented the fact he had never finished school or gone to college. Some of the letters displaying his wit were incorporated into a book. Mission: Impossible (1966-69) TV Series. Throughout his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", "I'm Against It", "Hello I Must be Going", "Everyone Says I Love You" and "Lydia the Tattooed Lady". Crooner Frank Sinatra once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing. They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970). The show was responsible for the phrases "Say the secret word and win a prize" and "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?".

Space: 1999 (1975-77) TV Series. Then they would play a brief quiz. The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981). The show consisted of Groucho interviewing the contestants and ad libbing jokes. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982). In the 1950s, he hosted the popular television program You Bet Your Life. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988). Groucho also worked as a radio comedian and show host in the 1930s and 1940s.

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). (See: Marx Brothers). By Dawn's Early Light. He and his brothers starred in a series of extraordinarily popular movies and stage shows, often departing from the scripts they were using. Sliver (1993). Groucho developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope and an exaggerated greasepaint moustache, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Margaret Dumont) who stood in his way. Eye of the Stranger (1993). He quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise guy character he would make famous.

Intersection (1994). However, after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Groucho's "German" character was booed. Ed Wood (1994) (Academy Award winner, Best Supporting Actor). For a time in vaudeville, all the brothers performed in ethnic accents; Groucho did a German accent. The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998). Leonard Marx, the oldest Marx brother, developed the "Italian" accent he used as "Chico" to convince some roving bullies that he was Italian, not Jewish. The Joyriders (1999). The Marx family grew up on the Upper East Side of New York City, in a small Jewish neighborhood sandwiched between Irish/German and Italian neighborhoods.

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999). Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 - August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings the Marx Brothers and on his own. Sleepy Hollow (1999). This line spread to other nations as well in the 1960s and 1970s. The Majestic (2001). A famous French witticism was "Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho."; "I'm a Marxist of the Groucho variety". Hollywood Homicide (2003). [...] He is simply unique in the same way that Picasso or Stravinsky are." — Woody Allen.

"Groucho Marx was the best comedian this country ever produced.