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Landis at the 2022 Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Italy
Born
John David Landis

(1950-08-03) August 3, 1950 (age 74)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
  • actor
Years active1969–present
Spouse
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(m. 1980)​
Children2, including Max Landis
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John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) [1] 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), and horror films such as An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Innocent Blood (1992). He also directed the music videos for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (1983) and "Black or White" (1991).

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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).

In 1982, Landis became the subject of controversy when three actors, including two children, died on set while filming his segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Landis, as well as several other parties, were subsequently tried and acquitted for involuntary manslaughter, but the incident had long-lasting effects on film industry practices.

Landis is the father of filmmaker Max Landis.

Early life

Landis was born into a Jewish American family [2] in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Shirley Levine (née Magaziner) and Marshall Landis, an interior designer and decorator. [3] Landis and his parents relocated to Los Angeles when he was four months old. Though spending his childhood in California, Landis still refers to Chicago as his home town; he is a fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team.[ citation needed ]

When Landis was a young boy, he watched The 7th Voyage of Sinbad , which inspired him to become a director:

I had complete suspension of disbelief—really, I was eight years old and it transported me. I was on that beach running from that dragon, fighting that Cyclops. It just really dazzled me, and I bought it completely. And so, I actually sat through it twice and when I got home, I asked my mom, "Who does that? Who makes the movie?" [4] [5]

Career

Early

Landis began his film career working as a mailboy at 20th Century-Fox. He worked as a "go-fer" and then as an assistant director during filming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Kelly's Heroes in Yugoslavia in 1969; he replaced the film's original assistant director, who became ill and was sent home. [6] During that time Landis became acquainted with actors Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland, both of whom would later work in his films. Following Kelly's Heroes, Landis worked on several films that were shot in Europe (especially in Italy and the United Kingdom), including Once Upon a Time in the West , El Condor and A Town Called Bastard (a.k.a. A Town Called Hell). [6] Landis also worked as a stunt double.

I worked on some [pirate] movies, all kind of movies. French foreign movies. I worked on a movie called Red Sun where Toshiro Mifune kills me, puts a sword through me. ... I worked as a stunt guy. I worked as a dialogue coach. I worked as an actor. I worked as a production assistant. [6]

Aged 21, Landis made his directorial debut with Schlock . The film, which he also wrote and appeared in, is a tribute to monster movies. [6] The gorilla suit for the film was made by Rick Baker—the beginning of a long-term collaboration between Landis and Baker. Though completed in 1971, Schlock was not released until 1973 after it caught the attention of Johnny Carson. A fan of the film, Carson invited Landis on The Tonight Show and showed clips to help promote it. Schlock has since gained a cult following, but Landis has described the film as "terrible". [7]

Landis was hired by Eon Productions to write a screen treatment for The Spy Who Loved Me , but his screenplay of James Bond foiling a kidnapping of the Pope in Latin America was rejected by Albert R. Broccoli for satirizing the Catholic Church. [8] Landis was then hired to direct The Kentucky Fried Movie after David Zucker saw his Tonight Show appearance. [7] The film was inspired by the satirical sketch comedy of shows like Monty Python , Free the Army, The National Lampoon Radio Hour and Saturday Night Live . [6] It is notable for being the first film written by the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker team, who would later have success with Airplane! and The Naked Gun trilogy.

1978–1981

Sean Daniel, an assistant to Universal executive Thom Mount, saw The Kentucky Fried Movie and recommended Landis to direct Animal House based on that. Landis says of the screenplay, "It was really literally one of the funniest things I ever read. It had a nasty edge like National Lampoon. I told him it was wonderful, extremely smart and funny, but everyone's a pig for one thing." [9] While Animal House received mixed reviews, it was a massive financial success, earning over $120 million at the domestic box office, making it the highest grossing comedy film of its time. [10] [11] Its success started the "gross-out" film genre, which became one of Hollywood's staples. It also featured the screen debuts of John Belushi, Karen Allen and Kevin Bacon.

In 1980, Landis co-wrote and directed The Blues Brothers , a comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It featured musical numbers by R&B and soul legends James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker. It was, at the time, one of the most expensive films ever made, costing almost $30 million (for comparison, Steven Spielberg's contemporary film 1941 cost $35 million). It is speculated that Spielberg and Landis engaged in a rivalry, the goal of which was to make the more expensive film. [6] The rivalry might have been a friendly one, as Spielberg makes a cameo appearance in Blues Brothers (as the unnamed desk clerk near the end) and Landis had made a cameo in 1941 as a messenger.

In 1981, Landis wrote and directed another cult-status film, the comedy-horror An American Werewolf in London . It was perhaps Landis' most personal project; he had been planning to make it since 1969, while in Yugoslavia working on Kelly's Heroes. It was another commercial success for Landis and inspired studios to put comedic elements in their horror films.

On July 23, 1982, during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie , actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le (age 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6) were killed in an accident involving an out-of-control helicopter. The three were caught under the aircraft when it crashed, and Morrow and one child were decapitated. [12]

In June 1983, Landis, associate producer George Folsey Jr., production manager Dan Allingham, head of special effects Paul Stewart and helicopter pilot Dorcey Wingo were charged with involuntary manslaughter. [13] In December, Morrow's daughters Jennifer Jason Leigh and Carrie Morrow also sued Landis, Wingo, Warner Bros. Studios and others for negligence and wrongful death, resulting in Warner Bros. settling their case out of court, awarding $850,000 to each party. [14] Following the accident, Spielberg ended his friendship with Landis. [15] [16]

In October 1984, the National Transportation Safety Board reported:

The probable cause of the accident was the detonation of debris-laden high temperature special effects explosions too near a low-flying helicopter leading to foreign object damage to one rotor blade and delamination due to heat to the other rotor blade, the separation of the helicopter's tail rotor assembly, and the uncontrolled descent of the helicopter. The proximity of the helicopter to the special effects explosions was due to the failure to establish direct communications and coordination between the pilot, who was in command of the helicopter operation, and the film director, who was in charge of the filming operation. [17]

The lawsuit finally proceeded in 1985. [18] Landis insisted that the deaths of Morrow, Le and Chen were the result of an accident. [19] However, camera operators filming the scene testified to Landis being a very imperious director, and a "yeller and screamer" on set. [20] During a take three hours before the incident, Wingo (a veteran of the Vietnam War) told Landis that the fireballs were too large and too close to the helicopter, to which Landis responded, "You ain't seen nothing yet." [21] With special effects explosions blasting around them, the helicopter descended over Morrow, Le, and Chen. Witnesses testified that Landis was still shouting for the helicopter to fly "Lower! Lower!" moments before it crashed. [22]

The prosecutors demonstrated that Landis was reckless and had not warned the parents, cast or crew of the children's and Morrow's proximity to explosives, or of limitations on their working hours. [12] He admitted that he had violated California law regulating the employment of children by using the children after hours, and conceded that that was wrong, but still denied culpability. [12] Numerous members of the film crew testified that the director was warned of the extreme hazard by technicians but ignored them.[ citation needed ] Metallurgist Gary Fowler testified that the heat from two explosions engulfed and delaminated the helicopter's tail rotor, causing it to fall off, and that there had been "no historical basis" for the phenomenon. [23]

Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino stated that Landis was acting "cool", "slippery" and "glib" during the trial, and that his testimony contained inconsistencies. [21] After a ten-month jury trial that took place in 1986 and 1987, Landis—represented by criminal defense attorneys Harland Braun and James F. Neal—and the other crew members were acquitted of the charges. [24] [25] [26]

Both Le's and Chen's parents later filed civil suits against Landis and other defendants and eventually settled out of court with the studio for $2 million per family. [27] In 1988, Landis was reprimanded by the Directors Guild of America for unprofessional conduct on the set of the film and the California Labor Commission fined him $5,000 for violating child labor laws. [15] Additionally, Cal/OSHA issued 36 citations and $62,375 in fines, although this amount was later reduced to $1,350. [15] Warner Bros. vice president John Silvia also spearheaded a committee to create new safety standards for the film industry. [18]

During an interview with journalist Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, Landis said, "When you read about the accident, they say we were blowing up huts—which we weren't—and that debris hit the tail rotor of the helicopter—which it didn't. The FBI Crime Lab, who was working for the prosecution, finally figured out that the tail rotor delaminated, which is why the pilot lost control. The special effects man who made the mistake by setting off a fireball at the wrong time was never charged." [6]

Subsequent film career

Trading Places , a Prince and the Pauper –style comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, was filmed directly after the Twilight Zone accident. After filming ended, Landis and his family went to London. The film, a big hit at the box office (the 4th-most-popular movie of 1983) did well enough for Landis' image and career to improve, along with his involvement with Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

Next, Landis directed Into the Night , starring Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer and David Bowie, and appeared in the film, which was inspired by Hitchcock productions, as an Iranian hitman. To promote the film, Landis collaborated with Jeff Okun to direct a documentary film called B.B. King "Into the Night" .

His next film, Spies Like Us (starring co-writer Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase), was an homage to the Road to ... films of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. It was the 10th-most-popular movie of 1985. Hope made a cameo in the Landis film, portraying himself. [28]

In 1986, Landis directed Three Amigos , which featured Chevy Chase, Martin Short and Steve Martin. He then co-directed and produced the 1987 satirical comedy film Amazon Women on the Moon , which parodies the experience of watching low-budget films on late-night television.

Landis next directed the 1988 Eddie Murphy film Coming to America , which was hugely successful, becoming the third-most-popular movie of 1988 at the U.S. box office. It was also the subject of Buchwald v. Paramount , a civil suit filed by Art Buchwald in 1990 against the film's producers. Buchwald claimed that the concept for the film had been stolen from a 1982 script that Paramount optioned from Buchwald, and won the breach of contract action. [29]

In 1991, Landis directed Sylvester Stallone in Oscar , based on a Claude Magnier  [ fr ] stage play. Oscar recreates a 1930s-era film, including the gestures along with bit acts and with some slapstick, as an homage to old Hollywood films. [30] In 1992, Landis directed Innocent Blood , a horror-crime film. In 1994, Landis directed Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop III , their third collaboration following Trading Places and Coming to America . In 1996, he directed The Stupids and then returned to Universal to direct Blues Brothers 2000 in 1998 with John Goodman and, for the fifth time in a Landis film, Dan Aykroyd, who also appeared in Landis' film Susan's Plan , released that same year. None of the above six films scored well with critics or audiences.

Burke and Hare was released in 2010, as Landis' first theatrical release in 12 years.

In August 2011, Landis said he would return to horror and would be writing a new film. [31] He was the executive producer on the comedy horror film Some Guy Who Kills People .

Music videos

Landis has directed several music videos. He was approached by Michael Jackson to make a video for his song "Thriller". [6] The resulting video significantly impacted MTV and the concept of music videos; it has won numerous awards, including the Video Vanguard Award for The Greatest Video in the History of the World. In 2009 (months before Jackson died), Landis sued the Jackson estate in a dispute over royalties for the video; he claimed to be owed at least four years' worth of royalties. [32] [33]

In 1991, Landis collaborated again with Michael Jackson on the music video for the song "Black or White".

Television

Landis has been active in television as the executive producer (and often director) of the series Dream On (1990), Weird Science (1994), Sliders (1995), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997), Campus Cops (1995), The Lost World (1998), Masters of Horror , and various episodes of Psych . He also made commercials for DirecTV, Taco Bell, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kellogg's, and Disney. In 2011 he made an appearance in Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's television series Psychoville . In June 2020, Landis signed on to direct and executive produce the streaming series Superhero Kindergarten . [34]

Documentaries

Landis made his first documentary, Coming Soon , in 1982; it was only released on VHS. In 1983, he worked on the 45-minute documentary Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, which aired on MTV and Showtime and was simultaneously released on home video, which became the biggest selling home video release of the time. [35] Next, he co-directed B.B. King "Into the Night" (1985) and in 2002 directed Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update , which can be seen as a part of the Animal House DVD extras. Initially, his documentaries were only made to promote his feature films. Later in his career he became more serious about the oeuvre and made Slasher (2004), Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) and Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen (2009) for television. Landis won a 2008 Emmy Award for Mr. Warmth. [36] In 2023, he appeared in the Spanish documentary The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry, which covered the career of Spanish movie director Paul Naschy. [37] Landis was friends with Christopher Lee and he appeared in the documentary The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024). [38]

Archives

Landis' moving image collection is held at the Academy Film Archive. [39] The film material at the Archive is complemented by photographs, artwork and posters found in Landis' papers at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library. [40]

Personal life

Landis is married to Deborah Nadoolman, a costume designer. They have two children: Max and Rachel. In a BBC Radio interview, he stated that he is an atheist. [41] The family lives in Beverly Hills, California. [42] They had purchased Rock Hudson's estate in Beverly Crest after the actor died there from complications of AIDS. The property was later sold to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. [43]

In 2009, Landis signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects." [44] [45]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
1973 Schlock YesYesNo
1977 The Kentucky Fried Movie YesNoNo
1978 Animal House YesNoNoa.k.a. National Lampoon's Animal House
1980 The Blues Brothers YesYesNo
1981 An American Werewolf in London YesYesNo
1982 Coming Soon YesYesYesDocumentary
1983 Trading Places YesNoNo
Twilight Zone: The Movie YesYesYesSegments "Prologue" and "Time Out"
1985 Into the Night YesNoNoplus actor, as one of the Iranian henchmen
Spies Like Us YesNoNo
Clue NoStoryExecutiveCo-story with Jonathan Lynn
1986 ¡Three Amigos! YesNoNo
1987 Amazon Women on the Moon YesNoExecutiveSegments "Mondo Condo", "Hospital", "Blacks Without Soul" and "Video Date"
1988 Coming to America YesNoNo
1991 Oscar YesNoNo
1992 Innocent Blood YesNoNo
1994 Beverly Hills Cop III YesNoNo
1996 The Stupids YesNoNo
1998 Blues Brothers 2000 YesYesYes
Susan's Plan YesYesYes
2010 Burke and Hare YesNoNo

Executive producer

Acting roles

YearTitleRoleNotes
1970 Kelly's Heroes Sister Rosa StigmataUncredited;
Also production assistant
1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes Jake's Friend
Schlock Schlock
1975 Death Race 2000 Mechanic
1977 The Kentucky Fried Movie TV TechnicianUncredited
1979 The Muppet Movie Grover Uncredited, puppetry only in Rainbow Connection Finale scene
1941 Mizerany
1980 The Blues Brothers Trooper La Fong
1981 An American Werewolf in London Man Being Smashed Into WindowUncredited
1982 Eating Raoul Man who bumps into Mary
1983 Trading Places Man with briefcase
1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan Leonard Winesop
1985 Into the Night SAVAKplus director
1990 Spontaneous Combustion Radio Technician
Darkman Physician
1992 Sleepwalkers Lab Technician
Body Chemistry II: Voice of a StrangerDr. Edwards
Venice/Venice Himself
1994 The Silence of the Hams FBI Agent
1996 Vampirella Astronaut #1
1997 Laws of Deception Judge Trevino
Mad City Doctor
1999 Diamonds Gambler
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby Judge
2004 Surviving Eden Doctor Levine
Spider-Man 2 Doctor
2005 The Axe Père copain Maxime
Torrente 3: El protector Embajador árabe
2007 Look Aggravated Director
2012 Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader Professor
2015 Wrestling Isn't Wrestling TherapistShort film
2015 Tales of Halloween Jebediah RexSegment "The Ransom of Rusty Rex"

Television

YearTitleDirectorProducerWriterNotes
1976 Holmes & Yo-Yo NoNoStoryEpisode "Key Witness"
1985Disneyland's 30th Anniversary CelebrationYesNoNoTV documentary
George Burns Comedy Week YesNoNoEpisode "Disaster at Buzz Creek"
1990–1996 Dream On YesExecutiveNoDirected 17 episodes
1990Disneyland's 35th Anniversary CelebrationYesNoNoTV documentary
1994 Weird Science NoExecutiveNo
1995 Sliders NoExecutiveNo
1996 Campus Cops YesExecutiveNoDirected episodes "Muskrat Ramble" and "3,001"
1997–1999 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show YesExecutiveNoDirected episode "Honey, Name That Tune"
1999–2002 The Lost World NoExecutiveNo
2002The Kronenberg ChroniclesYesExecutiveNoUnaired pilot
2004 Slasher YesNoNoTelevision documentary
2005–2006 Masters of Horror YesNoYesDirected and co-wrote episode "Deer Woman"
Directed episode "Family"
2007 Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project YesYesNoTV documentary
2007–2008 Psych YesNoNo3 episodes
2008 Fear Itself YesNoNoEpisode "In Sickness and in Health"
Starz Inside: Ladies or GentlemenNoExecutiveNoTV documentary
2011 Wendy Liebman: Taller on TVNoYesNo Stand-up special
2012 Franklin & Bash YesNoNoEpisode "Voir Dire"
2021 Superhero Kindergarten YesExecutiveNo26 episodes [34]

Acting roles

YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 The Six Million Dollar Man MichaelEpisode "The Pal-Mir Escort"
1990 Psycho IV: The Beginning Mike CalveccioTV movie
1991–1994 Dream On HerbEpisodes "Futile Attraction" and "Where There's Smoke, You're Fired"
1994 The Stand Russ DorrEpisode "The Stand"
2011 Psychoville DirectorEpisode "Dinner Party"

Music videos

YearTitleArtist
1983 Thriller Michael Jackson
1985 My Lucille B.B. King
Into the Night
In the Midnight Hour
1986 Spies Like Us Paul McCartney
1991 Black or White Michael Jackson

Unrealized projects

YearTitle and descriptionRef(s)
1970sSee You Next Wednesday, a fictional "musical autobiography" of himself if he died at 19 years old [46]
Teenage Vampire, a vampire film set in 1950s Ohio [47]
The Spy Who Loved Me [48] [49]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind , retitled from Project Bluebook [50]
The Thing [51]
The Incredible Shrinking Woman [52]
A film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World [53]
1980sBarnum, a biopic of circus showman P. T. Barnum written by Bill Lancaster starring John Belushi [54]
Dick Tracy starring Clint Eastwood [55] [56]
Clue [57]
A Chorus Line [58]
Little Shop of Horrors [59]
Club Paradise [60]
The Lone Ranger, a film based on the eponymous character written by George MacDonald Fraser [61]
1990sA remake of the 1933 film King Kong [62] [63]
Red Sleep, a vampire film with Mick Garris, Richard Christian Matheson and Harry Shearer set in Las Vegas [64] [56] [65]
A sequel to his film An American Werewolf in London [66]
An unaired TV pilot based on Thorne Smith's novel Topper, starring Tim Curry, Courteney Cox and Ben Cross [67] [68]
The Return of Willard, a sequel to Willard starring Bruce Davison [69]
A film adaptation of Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [70] [71]
2000sReally Scary, an anthology horror film with segments directed by Landis, Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi and Joe Dante [72]
Gone, a thriller set in a haunted house [73] [74] [75]
A film adaptation of Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming's rock musical Bat Boy [76] [48]
A film adaptation of Larry Coen and David Crane's one-act play Epic Proportions written by Todd Berger [77] [50]
The Missionary Position, retitled from Missionary Impossible, a comedy written by Glen Brackenridge and Curtis Brien [78] [50] [79]
Show Dogs, a comedy about a homeless Jack Russell Terrier written by Mike Bender [78] [48]
The Wolfman [80]
Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines, a biopic of EC Comics publisher William Gaines written by Joel Eisenberg [81] [82]
The Bone Orchard, a Western about Chinese vampires [83]
A film adaptation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's five-act play The Rivals starring Joseph Fiennes and Albert Finney [83] [84]
2010sUntitled monster movie with Alexandre Gavras set in Paris [31] [85] [86]
2020s Superhero Kindergarten live-action TV series [34]
Untitled Superhero Kindergarten film spin-off

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George Joseph Folsey Jr. is an American film producer, editor, assistant director and cinematographer who frequently worked with director John Landis in the 1980s. Folsey was acquitted in a manslaughter case brought over the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Folsey is the son of George J. Folsey and father of editor Ryan Folsey.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Max Landis</span> American filmmaker (born 1985)

Max Landis is an American filmmaker. He is the son of director John Landis. He wrote scripts for the films Chronicle (2012), American Ultra (2015), Victor Frankenstein (2015), and Bright (2017). He wrote and directed the film Me Him Her (2015), produced the first two seasons of the Syfy series Channel Zero (2016), and created the series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) based on the novel, for BBC America. He has also written limited series published by DC and Image Comics.

<i>Twilight Zone</i> accident Fatal 1982 helicopter crash in California

On July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California, United States during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, who were on the ground, and injured the six helicopter passengers. The incident led to years of civil and criminal action against the personnel overseeing the film shoot, including director John Landis and the introduction of new procedures and safety standards in the filmmaking industry.

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