• Season 2
    Space 1999
    Mon May 21. 3:55 PM

John Koenig

John Koenig

By: Martin Landau

Koenig is the leader of Moonbase Alpha. He was orphaned in his teens and had no siblings. A moody guy, Koenig barks orders at his fellow astronauts.   He can be rather ruthless yet also quiet and introspective.  Koenig is an astrophysicist and has his own unified field theory.

Martin Landau:

A star of both big and small screens, Martin Landau worked for a time as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News. After attending New York City's famed Actors' Studio, where he counted James Dean among his close friends, he landed major supporting roles in such movies as North by Northwest (1959), as James Mason's henchman who stalks Cary Grant) and Cleopatra (1963, as Rufio). He found fame as a costar of TV's Mission: Impossible (1966-69) and Space: 1999 (1975-77), both of which teamed him with his then real-life wife Barbara Bain.


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