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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 ...
Lupus with Mission: Impossible cast in 1970. Lupus played Willy Armitage in the original Mission: Impossible television series in the 1960s. [3] Armitage was the Impossible Missions Force's muscle man, and featured in nearly all episodes of the series. The character of Willy Armitage was the strong, silent type, usually with very little dialogue.
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.
Director Christopher McQuarrie, who has worked with Cruise, 62, on the action series dating back to 2015's Rogue Nation, told Empire magazine that an audience member at a recent early screening of ...
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 is more than happy to play a foul-mouthed Santa (“Bad Santa”) or a high school football coach (“Friday Night Lights”) or a NASA scientist (“Armageddon”), but one ...