User blog:ARTaylor/Martin Landau Turns 89

Today marks the eighty-ninth birthday of Martin Landau. Born on this day in 1928, Landau has had a long and prolific career in television and film. He got his start working minor roles in television series like Maverick, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and The Twilight Zone as well as minor parts in big features like North by Northwest and Cleopatra. He later landed a staring role on Mission: Impossible as master of disguise Rollin Hand. He then began garnering award attention with nominations for Tucker: The Man and His Dream and Crimes and Misdemeanors, though it was his role playing Dracula actor Bela Lugosi in the biographical film Ed Wood that would eventually earn him his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Despite being the oldest living actor to win Best Supporting Actor, he continues to expand his legacy and still appears on screen as well as heading the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio. Marvel fans would remember Landau as the voice of Scorpion/Mac Gargan on the first two seasons of Spider-Man.