The Spy Command, a website
that covers James Bond and other spy TV programs and films, offers a piece on
the death of actor Martin Landau.
Martin Landau, who gained
fame as Mission: Impossible disguise expert Rollin Hand, has died at 89, the
TMZ website said.
Landau died Saturday at the
UCLA Medical Center "after a short hospitalization where he suffered
unexpected complications," TMZ said.
Landau enjoyed a long career
that began in the early 1950s. It included a number of espionage-related
stories, including portraying Leonard, a henchman in the Alfred
Hitchcock-directed North by Northwest (1959); a Cold War themed episode of The
Twilight Zone; and playing Thrush operative Count Zark in The Bat Cave Affair,
a second-season episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
But he was most famous for
Mission: Impossible, where he appeared during the show's first three seasons.
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
Note: I was a huge fan of Landau and Mission Impossible on TV when I was a kid (but I don't much care for the Tom Cruise film series that uses the Mission Impossible title).
As noted above, Martin Landau also starred in an episode of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, a brilliant and clever TV show that I also loved as a kid.
As noted above, Martin Landau also starred in an episode of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, a brilliant and clever TV show that I also loved as a kid.
The episode that starred Landau and John Van Dreelen was a first-class Cold War espionage
story.
You can watch the episode via
the below link:
And you can watch the original Mission Impossible intro and hear Lalo Schifin's forever cool Mission Impossible theme song via the below link:
He was wonderful
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