Martin Landau (Martin Landau)

Born June 20, 1931 in Brooklyn, and before they decided to pursue an acting thing, was a staff cartoonist in 'New York Daily News'. A loaded beyond measure work on television, Landau drew the attention of moviegoers in 1959, his second film - Hichkokovskim 'North by Northwest', in which he plays a homosexual (a good career in America, honest!). In 1966, Landau and his wife, actress Barbara Brain, were chosen from the crowd of applicants for principal roles in TV series 'Mission Impossible', the thing which now made a film. Unhappy with the changes in the actor's part and the constant undercutting of the budget, Landau and Bain three years later left the series. This couple has continued from time to time appear together on the screen until their marriage is not dissolved. In the 80 Landau was busy with work more closely than that as a result earned him two Oscar nominations - in 1988 for the Coppola film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" and in 1989 for Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors '. Landau received his only Oscar in 1994, playing in the movie 'Ed Wood' role of the legendary Bela Lugosi.