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George A. Romero, Martin Landau Both Died This Weekend (variety.com)
This weekend the world lost two familiar faces from the world of fantasy, horror and science fiction films -- director George A. Romero and actor Martin Landau. An anonymous reader writes: Bronx-born director Romero started his career with a segment for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood about tonsilectomies, but is best remembered for his influential zombie movies Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), and Land of the Dead (2005), as well as the 1982 horror film Creepshow (written by Stephen King). In 1998 Romero also directed a zombie-themed ad for Resident Evil 2, and later even wrote a rejected script for the first Resident Evil movie. In 2004 Romero began work on a zombie video game City of the Dead, which was ultimately never finished. Romero appears as himself in the zombie section of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and in 2014 Marvel comics launched Empire of the Dead, a 15-issue title written by Romero.
Martin Landau began his career playing a gunfighter in the third episode of The Twilight Zone, and a time-travelling astronaut in the sixth episode of The Outer Limits. Soon he was starring as master of disguise Rollin Hand on Mission: Impossible -- which ran from 1966 to 1973 -- and on Space: 1999, which ran from 1975 to 1977. At the age of 66 Landau finally won an Oscar for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood. In 2012 Landau also provided the voice of the science teacher in Burton's Frankenweenie, and had an uncredited role in the director's 1999 movie Sleepy Hollow as one of the early victims of the headless horseman. Landau was also in the 1998 X-Files movie (playing the doctor who tips off Mulder that there's something suspicious in the morgue).
Slashdot reader schwit1 remembers that Landau began his career playing a sadistic henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (who appears in the climactic final scene on Mt. Rushmore) -- and that Landau famously turned down the role of Mr. Spock on Star Trek.
Martin Landau began his career playing a gunfighter in the third episode of The Twilight Zone, and a time-travelling astronaut in the sixth episode of The Outer Limits. Soon he was starring as master of disguise Rollin Hand on Mission: Impossible -- which ran from 1966 to 1973 -- and on Space: 1999, which ran from 1975 to 1977. At the age of 66 Landau finally won an Oscar for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood. In 2012 Landau also provided the voice of the science teacher in Burton's Frankenweenie, and had an uncredited role in the director's 1999 movie Sleepy Hollow as one of the early victims of the headless horseman. Landau was also in the 1998 X-Files movie (playing the doctor who tips off Mulder that there's something suspicious in the morgue).
Slashdot reader schwit1 remembers that Landau began his career playing a sadistic henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (who appears in the climactic final scene on Mt. Rushmore) -- and that Landau famously turned down the role of Mr. Spock on Star Trek.
Rest in Peace if you can, George.
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"Martin Landau began his career playing a gunfighter in the third episode of The Twilight Zone, ..."
"... Landau began his career playing a sadistic henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest"
To be fair, both of these were in 1959. And North By Northwest is probably my favorite movie, so I may be a bit biased here, but - that role may have been just a tad higher profile than a gunfighter who's casting on a fledgling TV show doesn't even rate a mention in the Wikipedia synopsis of the episode.
In any case rest in peace, Mr. Landau.
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Bricks were shat.
Farewell Commander Koenig.
in this world.
Used to be.
Not yet. Ya gotta shoot 'im in the head.
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She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
We will miss you.
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They still owed me a fin.
Clearly his best and most memorable role! :)
RIP Romero and Landau.
Another hero died this weekend: Maryam Mirzakhani, one of the most prominent mathematicians of our time, who had died this weekend too, at the much too young age of 40. Here's a bit on that by Terrence Tao.
But, will you stay merely dead? Or can we eagerly await a new zombie movie, written, cast and directed from the undead point of view? A movie directed by a zombie from the zombies point of view? I'd watch the fuck out of that!
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He's going to start voting Democrat, if he didn't before.
From the post:
Landau began his career playing a sadistic henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest
And from IMDB: .
At age 19, [Romero] worked briefly as a page-boy on the set of North by Northwest
It's a pity there was never a second season of Space: 1999.
Rest in peace to the deceased, and I am sorry to their families.
But don't you EVER scare me like that again.
"Here's to everything that was."
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I most remember him from his recent role in entourage! Is that something you'd be interested in? Haha
By Dawn's Early Light is still one of my favorite movies Landau was in. It is such a great sleeper title with a great allstar cast.
Martin Landau
James Earl Jones
Powers Boothe
Rebecca de Mornay
Rip Torn
Darren McGavin
I think I'm going to have to watch it tonight.
...in the head
Known studio musician, still around.
Soon he was starring as master of disguise Rollin Hand on Mission: Impossible -- which ran from 1966 to 1973 -- and on Space: 1999...
Wow, I had no idea he played master of disguise Rolin Hand on Space:1999.
That really was some good disguise!
this time from the zombie's POV
--Landau was memorable in Rounders.
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Hopefully not your defining understanding of physics
If you are watching science fiction to improve your understanding of physics you are doing something very, very wrong. Space 1999 was the very first science fiction show I can remember watching as a kid (shortly followed by Thunderbirds) and I'm now a physics professor. Yes looking back at them now the physics was appallingly bad at times but I'm sure they played a role in sparking my interest in science fact.