) Saw a picture of him online the other day in Maine. He's shooting a small part in an independent film directed by his daughter Susan. He looks ancient, AND he was smoking a cigarette! Hasn't he ever read the Surgeon General's warning? Actually as much as he and Bain puffed back in the 60's - 80's, I'm surprised they both haven't croaked by now.
Bain did croak - she died yesterday in a car accident.
Check out wireimage.com. Bain's pic is on there dated 10/5. Not dead by a longshot.
I used to be a part of the Barbara Bain discussion list and somebody posted a (verious serious) message about how Martin Landau was messing around with the girl who played Kate. Does anybody know whatever happened to her?
Sarah Bullen? Check the IMDb.
On Thursday Sept 4 2003 cable channel Trio will air the 1973 pilot for the TV series "Savage" starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
So that's what they might have been doing in the 70's instead of Space: 1999.
I've seen Savage before, it was supposed to be a pilot for a show Bain/Landau were to have done that apparently didn't get picked up by the network. The guy who wrote the pilot was a fellow by the name of Steve Speilberg.
How about a short summary/review for those of us outside the US?
Here's the pitch:
our hero is Paul Savage, a kind of Mike Wallace crossed with James Bond, played by hunky young Martin Landau. He's a font of integrity, and accompanied by his stylish producer, he uses the powers of television news to root out corruption. you've got politics, you've got cocktails, plus the gorgeous real-life Mrs. Landau, Barbara Bain, playing the producer. Oh, and the director? A 28-year-old Steven Spielberg.
The working title for this show was "Watch Dog"
…and having watched the 90 minute pilot this evening, I was underwhelmed. Perhaps it's the pacing of the era in which it was produced, but I found the show boring. It could've been tightened to an hourlong teleplay. Still, it was an intelligent script and required more of an attention span to watch than the network believed enough audience members possesed.
Steven Spielberg may have felt hemmed in by a modest budget on this project. It doesn't look or feel much like his style.
Barbara Bain appears to emote easily here compared to her nearly stoic performance on 1999 (which I always attributed to 1999's directors, telling the actors to deliver lines at a near-whisper.)
Martin Landau by contrast does not raise his voice even once (not in the character or script.)
"Savage" is notable here only an inkling of what might have occupied the Landaus' time in the fall of 1973 at Universal studios Hollywood instead of "The Void Ahead" at Pinewood studios.
Wish I could have seen it, but my local cable company doesn't carry Trio. (I miss my satellite dish; I could have watched it with that!)
Perhaps if it had lead to something more Sylvia Anderson would have got her way and we would have seen Robert Culp as John Koenig.
That reminds me of something John Muir brought up in his mostly good book Exploring Space: 1999 (McFarland Press)... He wondered if S99 were to be remade today (obviously set, say, in 2099) who would play the leads. No real surprise, that, but then he went on to assume it would be another husband & wife team, and proceeded to name a few then-current Hollywood couples.
What the heck was up with such a limited view of things? In my opinion, that's way too literal a view of a remake!
Seems kind of unlikely given that most of the prominent husband and wife duos are way too pricey for a 1999 series, and probably even a movie. And would you want Brad Pitt as Koenig and Jennifer Aniston as Russell?
Obviously not. In fact, as I hinted at, I think there's no reason to have a husband & wife team for the leads. (Hey, if they wait a little longer, they could have J-Lo and Ben Affleck! )
"Hey, if they wait a little longer, they could have J-Lo and Ben Affleck"
Please.......NO! 
Now in theatres: "GIGLI 1999!"
The horror... the horror...
OH NO! Ben & J-Lo have split! So much for my S99 remake idea...
Thank goodness!
Martin Landau looks more than ancient now. At 74, he has not aged well. He's six years younger than my dad, but he looks 10 years older.
yeah I see him every so often on Without a Trace and I thought it was just age make up. He looks like he is in his 90s.
Just caught North by Northwest on TCM. A very young Landau as Leonard.
On the topic of remakes...Now it could be Brad Pitt as the dashing Commander Koenig and Angelina Jolie as Russell....eugh.
On the topic of remakes...Now it could be Brad Pitt as the dashing Commander Koenig and Angelina Jolie as Russell....eugh.
Not any more - Brad and Angelina have split up!