Michael Landes

Michael Landes
Born
Michael Christopher Landes

(1972-09-18) September 18, 1972 (age 54)
The Bronx, New York, US
EducationStella Adler Studio of Acting
OccupationActor
Years active1988–present
Spouse
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(m. 2000)​
Children2

Michael Christopher Landes (born September 18, 1972) is an American actor of television and film.

Personal life

Michael Christopher Landes was born to Patricia and Bernard Landes on September 18, 1972, in The Bronx, New York. Landes studied performing arts at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Los Angeles.

He met Wendy Benson in Boston during the summer of 1999 while they were filming The Gentleman from Boston; they married on October 21, 2000, at Saint Thomas Church in Manhattan. According to Tribute, as of May 2021 they lived in Los Angeles with their two children.

Career

Landes made guest appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The New Lassie, and Blossom. In 2016, Landes told Digital Spy that when he was replaced on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman after the first season—"because I looked too much like Dean Cain, who played Clark... and Teri Hatcher, who played Lois"—it was his first time being fired. For his starring role in the television film Please God, I'm Only Seventeen, he was nominated for a Young Artist Award: Best Young Actor in a Television Movie, and in film, Landes also featured in Hart's War.

Performance credits

Television performances
Year Title Role Episode(s) Citation(s)
1988–1989 The Wonder Years Kirk McCray
1989 thirtysomething Young Michael
1991–1992 The Torkelsons Riley Roberts
1993–1994 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Jimmy Olsen Season one
1995 Courthouse
1995–1996 Too Something
1996 The Drew Carey Show
1997–1998 Union Square Michael Weiss 13 episodes
2001–2002 Special Unit 2 Nick O'Malley
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple Bryan Eastley "4.50 from Paddington"
Joey
2005 CSI: Miami
Love Soup Gil Raymond Series 1
2006 Ghost Whisperer
2007 The Wedding Bells David Conlon
2008 Boston Legal Leo Morris
2009 New Tricks Leonard Kuziak "The Truth Is Out There"
2010 Miranda Danny "The New Me"
2012 Upstairs Downstairs Caspar Landry
Don't Trust the B— in Apartment 23 Scott (Chloe's Father)
2013 Save Me Tom
The Crazy Ones Josh Hayes
2014 Reckless
2016 American Dad!
Hooten & the Lady Ulysses Hooten
2018 You Are Wanted
2019 Traitors Caspar Woods
2019–2020 Silent Witness Matt Garcia 4 episodes
2020 The Liberator
2021 Cruel Summer Greg Turner
Film performances
Year Title Role Citation(s)
1996 No Greater Love George Winfield
Dream for an Insomniac Rob
2003 Final Destination 2 Thomas Burke
2016 The Disappointments Room Teddy
2017 Gold Glen Binkert
2024 Arthur the King
TBA The Sacrifice

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Wendy Benson, Michael Landes". The New York Times. October 22, 2000. p. 10. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Michael Landes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on March 16, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Michael Landes Biography". Tribute. Archived from the original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  4. ↑ Jeffrey, Morgan (September 15, 2016). "Michael Landes admits he was "upset" to be fired from Lois & Clark back in the '90s". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on July 3, 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2022. The show's first Jimmy Olsen was axed for the strangest reason.
  5. ↑ Winslow, Harriet (March 5, 1995). "A Younger Jimmy Joins 'Lois & Clark'". Sun-Sentinel. ISSN 0744-8139. Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Union Square". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Love Soup - There Must Be Some Way Out Of Here". BBC. September 9, 2005. Archived from the original on September 13, 2024. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
  8. ↑ Bass, George (February 12, 2015). "Love Soup box set review: 'achingly romantic and compelling in equal measure'". The Guardian. ISSN 1756-3224. OCLC 60623878. Archived from the original on May 10, 2022. Retrieved September 11, 2024. Moments of comic brilliance wash away the taste of heartbreak: Alice and Gil's will-they-won't-they romance makes perfect viewing for Valentine's Day
  9. ↑ "BBC One - New Tricks, Series 6, The Truth Is Out There". BBC. Archived from the original on August 14, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Miranda". Radio Times. 2010. Archived from the original on January 14, 2022. Retrieved February 12, 2022.
  11. ↑ Rodger, Jennifer (September 18, 2016). "Hooten and The Lady's Michael Landes on why he's ready to be a pin-up". Daily Mirror. OCLC 223228477. Archived from the original on December 4, 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2022. The American actor's new action-adventure seems him tackle stunts and being tied upside down... ooh-er
  12. ↑ "Silent Witness: Who is Nikki Alexander's new love interest? Actor Michael Landes on dashing American Matt Garcia". Radio Times. Archived from the original on May 11, 2021. Retrieved February 12, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Freeform Orders 'Last Summer' to Series from Bert V. Royal, Jessica Biel, Michelle Purple, Max Winkler and eOne". The Futon Critic. January 17, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2022. The series stars Chiara Aurelia, Mika Abdalla, Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee, Nathaniel Ashton and Brooklyn Sudano.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  14. ↑ "Dream for an Insomniac". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on March 10, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Final Destination 2 (2003) - Cast & Crew". Yahoo! Movies. Archived from the original on March 9, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  16. ↑ "The Disappointments Room (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  17. ↑ Sun, Rebecca (June 29, 2015). "Michael Landes Joins Matthew McConaughey in Gold". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  18. ↑ Walsh, Katie (March 21, 2024). Kucharski, Zack (ed.). "New canine cycles into hearts as 'King'". The Gazette. Vol. 142, no. 72. Tribune News Service. p. 6C. ISSN 1066-0291.
  19. ↑ Kanter, Jake (August 6, 2026). "Alexander Johnson, Saffron Burrows & Steven Berkoff Lead Psychological Thriller 'The Sacrifice'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 6, 2026.