John Landis
For television, under the St. Clare Entertainment banner, Landis was executive producer and often director of the ACE and Emmy Award-winning HBO comedy series Dream On. He was also executive producer on the series Campus Cops and Weird Science, both for the USA Network and the movies-of-the-week Here Come The Munsters and The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas for the Fox Broadcast Network. He is currently executive producing the weekly series Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The Series for Buena Vista Television.
Landis has garnered numerous awards and accolades for his work, including several NAACP Image Awards, People's Choice Awards, Cable Ace Awards for Dream On and various international film festival awards. In 1985, he was honored by the French Government when he was given the prestigious Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and, in 1994, the Edinburgh Film Festival held a career retrospective of his work. The week after completing principal photography on Blues Brothers 2000, Landis traveled to Rimini, Italy, where he was awarded the Federico Fellini Prize.
As a representative of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, Landis has lectured at various film schools and universities, including Yale, Harvard, NYU, UCLA, UCSB, USC, Texas A&M, University of Miami and Indiana University. He is also an advisor at the Sundance Institute in Utah.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Landis and his family moved to Los Angeles soon after his birth. He is married to Deborah Nadoolman, an Oscar ™ - nominated costume designer, with whom he has two children.
John Landis Facts
Occupation | Director, Producer |
Birthday | August 3, 1950 (73) |
Sign | Leo |
Birthplace | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Selected Filmography
Not available. |