In Lugosi, the washed-up former star of 1930s horror films such as Count Dracula, Landau found a forerunner he could relate to.
Landau finally won the statuette five years later at the third time of asking for Ed Wood.
Martin Landau, the actor whose gaunt, hangdog features graced films by film-makers as varied as Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen and Tim Burton has died.
“Lugosi … had a palpable intensity and a presence that you can’t buy,” Landau said, just prior to his Oscar win.
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