Martin Landau, Oscar-Winning ‘Ed Wood’ Actor, Dies at 89

Martin Landau, star of “Ed Wood,” “North by Northwest” and the ’60s TV series “Mission: Impossible,” died Saturday at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, his publicist has confirmed. He was 89.


Landau won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work as the film legend Bela Lugosi in the Tim Burton-directed, Johnny Depp-starring biopic “Ed Wood” and also received nominations for Woody Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Tucker: The Man and His Dream.”

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i remember his performance as a old school wrestler name Sal Bandini in the Warner Brothers produced wrestling movie Ready To Rumble, which was a vehicle to promote WB/Turner/Time Warner's WCW at the time of the film's release in 2000 (WCW would go out of business the next year when AOLTimeWarner (as part of the Time Warner/AOL merger and WCW being in the red financially due to it being a money lost leader) sold it to WWE after Nitro and Thunder the remaining TV shows from WCW were canceled by Time Warner's Turner Networks), his character was based on a combo of Stu Hart (the patriarch of the famed first family of Canadian wrestling, the Hart Family, who gave us Bret "The Hitman" Hart and the late Owen Hart) and Lou Thesz (who is consider a God in Japanese pro wrestling aka Puroresu and the Babe Ruth of American Wrestling in the pre-WWE/Hogan days of the fake sport and of course the first guy to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Title in Japan).

RIP Martin Landau.

IIRC....it was Rod Serling's "Night Gallery"......Landau played a soldier (suffering from PTSD, I think....) trying to find his "old home" of Charles, Vermont....
Not a "scary" story.....just one that kept you guessing.....right up to the last 10 seconds or so!!!
His daughter, Jenna, was/is a close friend of Drew Barrymore, FWIW......!