{"id":125283,"date":"2017-07-17T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125283"},"modified":"2017-07-18T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:56:48","slug":"martin-landau-passes-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125283","title":{"rendered":"Martin Landau &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; TV star passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LandauMartin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-125344\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LandauMartin-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LandauMartin-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LandauMartin-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LandauMartin.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A publicist for Martin Landau says the Oscar-winning actor and star of the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; TV series has died.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Guttman said Landau died Saturday of unexpected complications during a short stay at UCLA Medical Center. He had just celebrated his 89th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Landau was the crafty master of disguise for the TV version of &#8220;Mission: Impossible,&#8221; then capped a long and versatile career with an Oscar for his poignant portrayal of aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in 1994&#8217;s &#8220;Ed Wood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Landau also gained some measure of fame among &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; fans for a role he didn&#8217;t play, pointy-eared starship Enterprise science officer, Mr. Spock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Star Trek&#8221; creator Gene Rodenberry had offered him the role, but Landau turned it down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A publicist for Martin Landau says the Oscar-winning actor and star of the &#8220;Mission: Impossible&#8221; TV series has died. Dick Guttman said Landau died Saturday of unexpected complications during a short stay at UCLA Medical Center. He had just celebrated his 89th birthday. Landau was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125346,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283\/revisions\/125346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}