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The character of Rollin Hand was created specifically for actor Martin Landau, and indeed, as Patrick J. White's book The Complete 'Mission: Impossible' Dossier pointed out, he was almost named "Martin Land". To achieve many of Rollin's acts of mimicry, several of the characters he imitated were either dubbed by Landau or played by him in a ...
By contrast, Mission: Impossible was praised for the prominence of its music. The original version of Mission: Impossible held the record for having the most episodes (171) of any English-language espionage television series for over 35 years (about 10 more episodes than its nearest rival, the UK-produced The Avengers).
In 1988, a Hollywood writers' strike resulted in a new Mission: Impossible series being commissioned. Graves was the only cast member from the original series to return as a regular, reprising his role as Jim Phelps, though others (most notably Greg Morris, whose son Phil was a regular in this version) made guest appearances. The series was ...
Mission: Impossible is an American multimedia franchise based on a fictional secret espionage agency known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The 1966 TV series ran for seven seasons and was revived in 1988 for two seasons.
Here's our official ranking of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible movies, from the 1996 original through 2023's 'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One.'
Billy Bob Thornton does not want to be remembered as a villain.. Sure, he'll play characters who have a questionable morality, but when it comes to the world of big franchise films, he'd rather ...
In 1966, Morris was cast in his most recognizable role as the team electronics expert Barney Collier in the TV series Mission: Impossible. Morris and Bob Johnson were the only actors to remain with Mission: Impossible throughout its entire run. After Iowa, his first professional stage role was in The Death of Bessie Smith.
And with ‘Mission: Impossible III,’ I didn’t want to be the guy trying to kill Tom Cruise. ... while Philip Seymour Hoffman was cast to go head to head with Cruise in “Mission: Impossible ...