Martin James Landau June 20 1928 July 15 2017 was an American actor acting coach producer and editorial cartoonist His career began in the 1950s with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcocks North by Northwest 1959 He played regular roles in the television series Mission Impossible for which he received several Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award and Space 1999 Landau received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture as well as his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Tucker The Man and His Dream 1988 he received his second Oscar nomination for his performance in Woody Allens Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood 1994 earned him an Academy Award a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Landau licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia