John Landis

John Landis is a realizer, actor, producer and American scenario writer, born the August 3rd 1950 with Chicago (Illinois).

Biography

Shade in the table

The career of John Landis, realizer more recognized like a money-maker than for its artistic qualities, was erased vis-a-vis the drama which proceeded during the turning of the segment of the Fourth Dimension , that it carried out, where Vic Morrow incarnated an American soldier saving two children at the time of the war of Vietnam. The July 23rd 1982, the actor Vic Morrow and two children committed in an illegal way, My-Ca Ding It and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, respectively 7 and 6 years, died at the time of an accident implying a helicopter. The helicopter, which flew at most at an altitude of 25 feet (8 meters), could not avoid the explosions caused by the pyrotechnical effects used for the scene, whereas it flew over the stretch of water where the actor advanced, holding the two children in its arms. The explosions having damaged the rotor and in a general way made difficult control of the apparatus, this one came to be crushed on Renee Chen, that Morrow had released under the effect of the breath, then the blades decapitated the actor and the second child. The team embarked in the helicopter will leave unscathed the accident.

Following the accident, the parents of both vicimes as well as the two girls of Vic Morrow, Carrey Morrow and Jennifer Jason Leigh, attacked in justice the various actors of the drama, of which the realizer John Landis, his producer, the person in charge of the special effects or Warner Bros, for manslaughter. Following a legal imbroglio, all the defendants were discharged, but the responsibilities weigh in particular on John Landis, to have consciously employed illegally two children in middle of the night, against the Californian legislation, to have multiplied the takings risk (he in particular asked the helicopter to fly still and always low).

Catalog of films

Realizer

Actor

  • 1973 : Schlock - Schlock
  • 1973: the Battle of planet of the monkeys - friendly of Jake
  • 1975: the Race with died of the year 2000 - technician TV combatant a gorilla
  • 1979: The Muppet Movie - Grover (voice)
  • 1979: 1941 - Mizerany
  • 1980: the Blues Brothers - Trooper Fong
  • 1981: the Werewolf of London - man passing through a window
  • 1982: Eating Raoul
  • 1984: The Muppets Take Manhattan - Leonard Winesop
  • 1985: Black series for one sleepless night - Savak
  • 1990: Spontaneous Combustion - technician radio operator
  • 1990: Darkman - physicist
  • 1990: Psycho IV: The Beginning (TV) - Mike
  • 1991: Black Gold White (video clip of Michael Jackson) - the realizer
  • 1992: the torn Night - technician of laboratory
  • 1992: Body Chemistry II: The Voice Of has Stranger - Dr. Edwards
  • 1992: Venice/Venice - John Landis
  • 1994: The Stand (serial TV) - Russ Dorr
  • 1994: the Silence of the hams - agent of the FBI
  • 1996: Vampirella (video) - astronaut #1 (Beard)
  • 1997: Trapped (Laws off Disappointment) - judge Trevino
  • 1997: Quicksilver Highway (TV) - assisting of the surgeon
  • 1997: Mad City - doctor
  • 1999: Diamonds - punter
  • 1999: Freeway II: Confessions Of has Trickbaby - judge
  • 2004: Surviving Eden - Dr. Levine
  • 2004: Spider-Man 2 (IMAX) - doctor
  • 2005: the Chopper - the father of the buddy of Maxime

Producer

  • 1982 : Coming Soon (video)
  • 1983: the Fourth dimension
  • 1983: Thriller (video clip of Michael Jackson)
  • 1985: Cluedo
  • 1987 : Amazon Women One The Moon
  • 1994: Code LISA (series TV)
  • 1995: Campus Cops (series TV)
  • 1995: Sliders (series TV) (season 1)
  • 1995: Young stag Like The Munsters (TV)
  • 1996: The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
  • 1997 : Cherished, I narrowed the kids (series TV)
  • 1998: Brothers Blues 2000
  • 1998: Le Monde lost
  • 1998: Susan has a plan
  • 1999: Le Monde lost of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the discovery (TV)

Scenario writer

External bond

  • John Landis on Internet Movie Database

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