John Landis

John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie director. Landis was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Los Angeles, California. He started his career working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox.

Some of his movies are:

 The Kentucky Fried Movie
 National Lampoon's Animal House
 The Blues Brothers
 An American Werewolf in London
 Trading Places
 Into the Night

He directed the music videos for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Black or White". "Thriller" won the Video Vanguard Award for The Greatest Video in the History of the World.

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