John Landis
Sign in to saveAmerican film director, screenwriter and producer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1805
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Life of the Messiah!
- Theater playbill for Landis' Opera Troupe at Melodeon, Washington, D.C., January 15, 1858
- Theater playbill for Landis' Opera Troupe in "Oh, Hush!" at Melodeon, Washington, D.C., January 9, 1858
- Theater playbill for Landis' Opera Troupe in "Oh, Hush! or, The Virginia Cupids" at Melodeon, Washington, D.C., January 8, 1858
- Theater playbill for Landis' Opera Troupe in "The Enchanted Sword" at Melodeon, Washington, D.C., January 5, 1858
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Film & TV
Directing · Chicago, Illinois, USA
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson.
Known for
- Robot Dracula — John2026
- The Vincent Price Legacy — Himself2025
- Being Eddie — Self2025
- On a Mission from God: The Story of the Blues Brothers — Self2025
- The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee — Self2024
- Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters — Self2024
- The Credible Adventures of Mr. T — Stranger2023
- Thriller 40 — Self2023
- The Rise of the Comic Strip — Self2023
- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,045
- Total plays
- 2,593
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,204x
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,628x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,537x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,306x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,195x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1950-08-03 ) August 3, 1950 (age 75) , Chicago, Illinois , U.S.
- Occupations
- Film director producer screenwriter actor
- Years active
- 1969–present
- Spouse
- Deborah Nadoolman , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Children
- 2, including Max
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Key dates
- Born
- 3 August 1950
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Spouse
- Deborah Nadoolman Landis
- Child
- Max Landis
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing comedy films such as The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), Trading Places (1983), Three Amigos (1986), Coming to America (1988), and Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), as well as horror films such as An American Werewolf in London (1981), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), and Innocent Blood (1992). He also directed the music videos for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (1983) and "Black or White" (1991).
Landis later ventured into television work, including the series Dream On (1990), Weird Science (1994), and Sliders (1995). He also directed several episodes of the 2000s horror anthology series Masters of Horror and Fear Itself, as well as commercials for DirecTV, Taco Bell, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kellogg's, and Disney. In 2008, Landis won an Emmy Award for the documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007).
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