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Martin Landau’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Martin Landau was an American actor, producer, and acting coach who had a net worth of $10 million at the time of his death in 2017. Martin Landau started as a cartoonist but later quit for theater acting. He won numerous awards for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in the 1994 film “Ed Wood,” and he played Rollin Hand on the CBS series “Mission: Impossible” (1966–1969), Commander John Koenig on ITV’s “Space: 1999” (1975–1977), and Dr. Sol Gold on the ABC police procedural “The Evidence” (2006). Martin had more than 170 acting credits to his name, including the films “North by Northwest” (1959), “Cleopatra” (1963), “The Greatest Story Ever Told” (1965), “They Call Me Mister Tibbs!” (1970), “Alone in the Dark” (1982), “Treasure Island” (1985), “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” (1988), “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (1989), and “The Majestic” (2001), the TV movies “Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol” (1972), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1979), “Kung Fu: The Movie” (1986), “The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman” (1987), “Max and Helen” (1990), “By Dawn’s Early Light” (1990), and “Legacy of Lies” (1992), and the television series “Without a Trace” (2004–2009),  and “Entourage” (2006–2008).
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John Woo’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

John Woo is a Hong Kong film director, writer, producer, editor, and actor who has a net worth of $70 million. John Woo is most widely recognized for his brand of “operatic” action films. His films, which have been produced in both Hong Kong and the U.S., have been hugely popular and include such hits as “A Better Tomorrow” (1986), “Hard Boiled” (1992), “Face/Off” (1997), and “Mission Impossible 2” (2000). Woo has directed more than 40 projects, and he has written and produced many of the films he has directed. John edited “Hard Boiled” as well as 1982’s “To Hell with the Devil” and 1990’s “Bullet in the Head.” As an actor, he has been in several of his films, including “Bullet in the Head” and “Hard Boiled,” and he has also appeared in the films “The Thirty Million Dollar Rush” (1987), “I Love Maria” (1988), “Starry is the Night” (1988), “Twin Dragons” (1992), and “Task Force” (1997). John also created the Virgin Comics series “John Woo’s 7 Brothers” (2006) and “John Woo’s 7 Brothers II” (2007), and he founded Lion Rock Productions. In 2010, he received a Silver Bauhinia Star (SBS) as part of the Hong Kong government’s annual honors.
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