Martin Landau, Elder of American Cinematography

Hollywood star, a popular film actor Martin Landau was born in Brooklyn June 20, 1931. He is the eldest of American cinema. This is a real patriarch of Hollywood. And today Martin Landau, who is already eighty-four years old, actively participates in film projects, and his hard work and endurance can envy young actors. Landau brings tangible benefits on the set - it is an inexhaustible source of professionalism. The master learns not only the actors, but the filmmakers try to learn something new for themselves. A coryphaeus of American cinema is happy to share experience.

Career

Martin Landau, whose biography contains the most unexpected turns, including fateful, is considered the most successful representative of the US film industry. His acting role evolved somewhat in an unusual way, the characters were mostly from the underworld. And Martin Landau often played the main characters in low-profile fighters, and in films higher rank he had to be content with secondary roles. This is the specificity of Hollywood, where any role should be taken for granted and played it with full dedication.

Skill and attractiveness

Nevertheless, Martin Landau, whose filmography includes more than one hundred and forty roles, has become a kind of record holder in terms of the amount of footage shot. In the Hollywood archive, paintings with his participation occupy a separate shelf. In addition, Martin Landau, whose photo was also reproduced in record numbers, can claim the honorary title of one of America's brightest sex symbols. His appearance in his mature years drove a half of the female population into the United States and Europe.

Competitiveness

At one time, Landau took a course in acting in the workshop of Lee Strasberg. One day at the casting in the film company "20th Century Fox" Martin was selected as the best candidate for the role among two thousand applicants. But for all its popularity, it did not fit into the Hollywood standards, like, for example, Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. This circumstance, however, the actor did not bother, he confidently occupied a niche in American cinema and successfully played his colorful characters.

Martin Landau - universal actor, a lot of filming in television series, one of which was the film "Mission Impossible." In several episodes, Martin played along with his wife Barbara Bane, this duo was considered very productive. They left the project of the couple together, none of them wished to withdraw from other partners.

Calm in creativity

There were in the career of Martin Landau and the "dead seasons", when he had not been shot in years in any film. This period of calm was a fifteen-year break from 1973 to 1988. However, in 1988, returning to the cinema, Landau immediately played a role that earned him the Oscar nomination, despite the fact that the character was of a secondary nature.

Awards

During his long career in film Martin Landau nine times nominated for the Emmy, Oscar and BAFTA. He was also awarded five times the highest prizes of American cinema, among which were:

1. "Golden Globe" - the first actor prize, which he received in 1968 for participating in the television series "Mission Impossible."
2. Another "Golden Globe" was awarded to Landau in 1989, for the best supporting actor in the film "Tucker: Man and Dream."
3. In 1995, he received his first "Oscar" in the nomination "Best Male Secondary Role" in the film "Ed Wood".
4. For the same role, the actor was awarded the third Golden Globe Award in 1995.
5. At the same time for his participation in the film "Ed Wood" he was awarded the Guild of Film Actors Guild of the United States.

Personal life

Martin Landau was married only once. In this he, too, set a kind of record, as against the background of numerous marriages and divorces in Hollywood, his family alliance looks at least unnatural. But nevertheless, the actor turned out to be a monogamous person. The reasons for the divorce remained unknown, there were several attempts on the part of newsmen to somehow justify this event, but each time there was a hard refutation from Barbara Bane. In several cases, editorial boards had to pay fines for "posting defamatory materials," after which the reporters quieted down.

His wife, Martin made an offer in early 1957, and on January 31 they signed. His choice was the American actress Barbara Bane. The young people were peers, they had many points of contact, common professional interests. Therefore, their marriage lasted more than thirty-five years, and during this time the spouses repeatedly appeared on various shooting sites hand in hand. Nevertheless, in 1993 the star couple divorced. It happened without any preludes, which are usually different for long-term marriages. The divorce followed spontaneously, but the judge did not even give a term for reconciliation, the decision to dissolve the marriage was made immediately, by mutual consent.

Martin Landau, whose children remained with their mother after the divorce, suffered from loneliness. However, having a real opportunity to re-create a family, he did not take the chance and continue to live alone.

Martin Landau today

Currently, the elderly actor lives in West Hollywood, in his own house all alone. He tries to spend as much time as possible on the set, the benefit of the roles for him is no shortage. A huge experience, acquired over many years of work in the cinema, helps the actor play the most complex characters.