Michael Landes

Michael Landes
Born	Michael Christopher Landes (1972-09-18) September 18, 1972 (age 52) The Bronx, New York, US
Alma mater	Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1988–present
Spouse	Wendy Benson ​ (m. 2000)​
Children	2

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 ^[1] on September 18, 1972, in The Bronx, New York. ^[2] Landes studied performing arts at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Los Angeles. ^[1]

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. ^[1] According to Tribute, as of May 2021 ^[update] they lived in Los Angeles with their two children. ^[3]

Career

Landes made guest appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , The New Lassie , and Blossom. ^[3] 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. ^[4] 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 . ^[3]

Performance credits

Television performances

Year	Title	Role	Episode(s)	Citation(s)
1988–1989	The Wonder Years	Kirk McCray		[2]
1989	thirtysomething	Young Michael
1991–1992	The Torkelsons	Riley Roberts		[3] [2]
1993–1994	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Jimmy Olsen	Season one	[5]
1995	Courthouse			[2]
1995–1996	Too Something			[3]
1996	The Drew Carey Show			[2]
1997–1998	Union Square	Michael Weiss	13 episodes	[6]
2001–2002	Special Unit 2	Nick O'Malley		[2]
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple		"4.50 from Paddington"
	Joey
2005	CSI: Miami
	Love Soup	Gil Raymond	Series 1	[7] [8]
2006	Ghost Whisperer			[2]
2007	The Wedding Bells	David Conlon
2008	Boston Legal	Leo Morris
2009	New Tricks	Leonard Kuziak	"The Truth Is Out There"	[9]
2010	Miranda	Danny	"The New Me"	[10]
2012	Upstairs Downstairs	Caspar Landry		[2]
	Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
2013	Save Me	Tom
	The Crazy Ones	Josh Hayes
2014	Reckless
2016	American Dad!
	Hooten & the Lady	Ulysses Hooten		[11]
2018	You Are Wanted			[2]
2019	Traitors	Caspar Woods
2019–2020	Silent Witness	Matt Garcia	4 episodes	[12]
2020	The Liberator			[13]
2021	Cruel Summer	Greg Turner		[2]

Film performances

Year	Title	Role	Citation(s)
1996	No Greater Love	George Winfield	[2]
	Dream for an Insomniac	Rob	[14]
2003	Final Destination 2	Thomas Burke	[15]
2016	The Disappointments Room	Teddy	[16]
2017	Gold		[3]
2024	Arthur the King		[17]

References

1. "Wendy Benson, Michael Landes". The New York Times . October 22, 2000. p. 10. ISSN   0362-4331. OCLC   1645522.
2. "Michael Landes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on March 16, 2022. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
3. "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. Archived from the original on November 6, 2022. 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.
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. 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.

External links

• Michael Landes at IMDb