FrameThrower · Actors · Martin Landau
Martin Landau
5 films · 264 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–2012
Born 20 June 1928 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · died 15 July 2017
Martin James Landau 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 Hitchcock's 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 Allen's Crimes…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 264 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1959–2012
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1995
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Mary Pickford Award2006
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 264 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Martin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Martin takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 264 frames from Martin Landau's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.