John Landis

'John Landis' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Landis, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Picture Cars

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Out of Print

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blast Vegas

  2013, role: actor , character name: Salesman #1
• Play in Full Screen Resurrecting Doug Dunning

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Nation's Favourite Dance Moment

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The AckerMonster Chronicles!

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader

  2012, role: actor , character name: Professor
• Play in Full Screen Beast Wishes

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Inside Horror

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guest
• Play in Full Screen The Rivals

  2011, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Trailers from Hell Volume 2

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Nightmare Factory

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Future of Fear

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Wendy Liebman: Taller on TV

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Some Guy Who Kills People

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Zombies

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr.

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Writer
• Play in Full Screen American Grindhouse

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director, Animal House
• Play in Full Screen Machete Maidens Unleashed!

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr.

  2010, role: actor , character name: Director
• Play in Full Screen Burke and Hare

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Epic Proportions

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Feel the Grind: The Making of 'American Grindhouse'

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tattoos: A Scarred History

  2009, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Zombie Honeymoon 2

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Scenesters

  2009, role: actor , character name: Judge Paxton B Johnson
• Play in Full Screen Michael Jackson

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bob Burns' Hollywood Halloween

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London'

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Starz Inside: The Face Is Familiar

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Filmmaker
• Play in Full Screen Animal House: The Inside Story

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Trailers from Hell

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Parasomnia

  2008, role: actor , character name: Department Store Manager
• Play in Full Screen Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Look

  2007, role: actor , character name: Aggravated director
• Play in Full Screen Prince-ipal Photography: The Coming Together of America

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

  2007, role: actor , character name: Sister Rosa Stigmata

Landi, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Tampering with Nature

  2001, role: miscellaneous crew

Landy, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Four Minute Fever

  1956, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by John Landis:

"Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed."

"John and Danny were opening for Steve Martin's stand-up tour, which was the No. 1 tour in the world, ... The album they recorded - Briefcase Full of Blues, a great album - was the No. 1 blues album in the world. They were starring on the No. 1 TV show (Saturday Night Live), and John had just starred in the No. 1 movie (Animal House) - which I'd directed."

"Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery)."

"It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the video business works now, the artist and the record label send"

"I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture."

"I've been in Kyoto and Munich and Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, and you see people dressed as Jake and Elwood, ... That's amazing - they're like Mickey Mouse. They've just become part of the culture."

"I've been in Kyoto and Munich and Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, and you see people dressed as Jake and Elwood, ... That's amazing — they're like Mickey Mouse. They've just become part of the culture."

"[At the time,] they were no longer hot, ... The big music of 1979 was the Bee Gees and ABBA, and these amazing talents were lingering. But where are the Bay City Rollers now?"

"I think you can see in the movie how passionate, really passionate John and Danny were about the music. It's a unique situation where you have two guys who are exploiting their own celebrity of the moment to focus a spotlight on these great acts."

"I've been in Kyoto and Munich and Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, and you see people dressed as Jake and Elwood. That's amazing — they're like Mickey Mouse. They've just become part of the culture."

"The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open."

"After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly."

"I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'"

"Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered."

"I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them."

"Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice looking, with the colors and stuff. I made it for kids, and I really would like them to see it."

"But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference."

"Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago."

"There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense."

"The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad."