Martin Landau, the Oscar-winning character actor, was born on June 20, 1931, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News as a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for Billy Rose's Pitching Horseshoes column. He also worked for cartoonist Gus Edson on The Gumps comic strip. Landau's major ambition was to act and, in 1951, he made his stage debut in Detective Story at the Peaks Island Playhouse in Pe ...[Read Story]