RIP: Martin Landau, 'Ed Wood,' 'Mission: Impossible' Actor, Dead at 89

Martin Landau, who gained fame in the 1960s TV show "Mission: Impossible," then capped a long and versatile career with an Oscar for his portrayal of aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in 1994's "Ed Wood," has died. He was 89.

Landau was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 20, 1928, the son of Selma (née Buchman) and Morris Landau. His family was Jewish; his father, an Austrian-born machinist, scrambled to rescue relatives from the Nazis.

If he looks familiar to you, he has 177 acting credits on IMDB.



Landau died at the age of 89 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California; he had been briefly hospitalized and, according to his representative, died of "complications from a heart attack."