The Iceman
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Jul 19, 2017
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MARTIN LANDAU R.I.P. 1928 - 2017
Actor Martin Landau has died July 15, following "unexpected complications during a short hospitalization" at the UCLA Medical Center. He was 89. A steady string of film and TV roles would follow before Landau - who infamously turned down the Spock role on Star Trek - would be cast as "master of disguise" Rollin Hand for four seasons of Mission: Impossible, where the actor met his wife, actress Barbara Bain. The couple divorced in 1993. After appearing in the sci-fi series Space: 1999 with Bain for two seasons in the mid-'70s, Landau saw his career lull for a decade until Francis Ford Coppola cast the actor in 1988's Tucker: The Man and His Dream, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Landau would finally win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his brilliant portrayal of washed-up Dracula actor Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood.
GEORGE ROMERO R.I.P. 1940 - 2017
On Sunday, July 16, legendary filmmaker George A Romero died after a "brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer." He was 77. The Night of the Living Dead director left behind a large body of work that came to define modern horror, influencing a generation of directors, writers and illustrators in the process. His manager Chris Roe said Romero died listening to the score of The Quiet Man, "one of his all-time favourite films".
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