Martin Landau was a cartoonist at The New York Daily News before deciding on a career switch to acting.
Landau played James Mason’s assistant in Alfred Hitchcock’s infinitely re-watchable North by Northwest. Warners has generously made the first ten delightful minutes of the movie available. Look for Robert Shayne, who was Inspector Henderson in The Adventures of Superman.
Doreen Lang played Cary Grant’s secretary Maggie. She is also in Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man from a few years earlier.
Hitchcock and Landau during the filming of North by Northwest.
Hitch, being something of a cartoonist himself, drew the famous self-portrait he used in the opening of his TV anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
