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John Landis
John Landis is the award-winning director (and often writer and co-writer) of such acclaimed motion pictures as "Animal House," "The Blues Brothers," "An American Werewolf in London," "Trading Places," "Three Amigos," "Into the Night," "Spies Like Us," "Coming to America" and "The Innocent Blood." In 2004, the Independent Film Channel broadcast his feature length documentary on a car salesman, "Slasher," to great acclaim. Michael Jackson was so impressed with "An American Werewolf in London" that he asked Landis to write and direct his groundbreaking music "Thriller." Landis and Jackson later collaborated on the classic Michael Jackson video "Black or White."
John Landis has been active in television as the Executive Producer (and often director) of the Emmy® Award-winning series "Dream On." Other TV shows produced by his company St. Clare Entertainment (St. Clare is the patron saint of television) include "Weird Science," "Sliders," "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," "Campus Cops" and "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World." He has also acted in such films as diverse as "Death Race 2000," "Muppets Take Manhattan" and "Spiderman 2."
His many honors include several People's Choice Awards, the prestigious W.C. Handy Award, several Cable Ace Awards and NAACP Image Award and various international film and television festival awards. He was made a Chevalier dans l' ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1985, and was awarded the Federico Fellini Prize by Rimini Cinema in Italy in the nineties. The Eastman House in Rochester, New York has named him a George Eastman Scholar. A retrospective of all his films was held at the Toronto Film Festival in Italy in 2004, and he was given the prestigious TIME MACHINE CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain. He finished shooting his part of Showtime's MASTERS OF HORRORTM series this past April from an original screenplay, Deer Woman, written by him and his son Max Landis.
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