John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson.

Filmography

• 2026Robot Dracula — John
• 2023The Credible Adventures of Mr. T — Stranger
• 2022Blue — Executive Producer
• Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten — Director
• 2019I Hate Kids — Psychic #4, Executive Producer
• 2018The Body — Man in Bathroom
• 2018The World Is Yours — Couple
• 2016Deconstructing Dunning
• 2016Sidemen: Long Road To Glory
• 2015Tales of Halloween — Jebediah Rex
• 2015Wrestling Isn't Wrestling — Therapist
• 2014Remembering 'Dead of Night'
• 2013Blast Vegas — Salesman #1
• 2012Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader — Professor
• 2012Grabbers — Thanks
• 2012The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
• Face Off — Guest Judge
• Franklin & Bash — Director
• 2011Some Guy Who Kills People — Executive Producer
• 2010Burke & Hare — Director
• Psychoville
• 2009The Face is Familiar
• 2009The Scenesters — Judge Paxton B. Johnson
• Fear Itself — Director
• 2008In Sickness and in Health — Director
• 2008Parasomnia — Department Store Manager
• British Film Forever
• 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project — Self, Director, Producer
• 2006Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
• 2006Deer Woman — Director, Writer
• 2006Family — Director
• 2006Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
• Psych — Director
• 2006The Great Sketch Experiment — Director
• Masters of Horror — Director, Writer
• 2005The Ax — Maxime's Friend's Father
• The Boondocks — Counseling Group Leader (voice)
• 2005Torrente 3: The Protector — Embajador árabe
• 2004Slasher — Director, Writer
• 2004Spider-Man 2 — Doctor
• 2002The Kronenberg Chronicles — Director
• 2001Teddy Bears' Picnic — Thanks
• 2001The Lost World - Gladiator — Executive Producer
• 2000Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby — Judge
• 1999Diamonds — Gambler
• 1999Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' — Host / Self
• The Lost World — Executive Producer
• 1998Blues Brothers 2000 — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1998Susan's Plan — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1998The Lost World — Executive Producer
• 1997An American Werewolf in Paris — Characters
• 1997HIStory on Film, Volume II — Director, Writer, Producer
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show — Producer, Director
• 1997Laws of Deception — Judge Trevino
• 1997Mad City — Doctor
• 1997Quicksilver Highway — Surgical Assistant
• 1996The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas — Executive Producer
• 1996The Stupids — Director
• 1996Vampirella — Astronaut #1
• Caroline in the City — John Landis
• 1995Here Come the Munsters — Executive Producer
• 1995Michael Jackson Video Greatest Hits: HIStory — Producer, Director
• Sliders — Producer
• 1994Beverly Hills Cop III — Director
• 1994The Silence of the Hams — FBI Agent
• The Stand — Russ Dorr
• 1994The World of Jim Henson — Leanord Winesop (archive footage)
• Weird Science — Producer
• 1993Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films — Director
• 1992Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger — Dr. Edwards
• Eek! The Cat — John Landis (voice)
• 1992Innocent Blood — Director
• 1992Sleepwalkers — Lab Technician
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991Oscar — Director
• 1990Darkman — Physician
• 1990Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration — Director
• Dream On — Herb, Producer, Director
• 1990Psycho IV: The Beginning — Mike Calveccio
• 1989Spontaneous Combustion — Radio Technician
• 1988Coming to America — Director
• 1987Amazon Women on the Moon — Director, Executive Producer
• 1987RoboCop — Man in '6000 SUX' Commercial (uncredited)
• 1986Fuzzbucket — Producer
• 1986¡Three Amigos! — Director
• 1985B.B. King: Into the Night — Self, Director, Producer
• 1985Clue — Story, Executive Producer
• George Burns Comedy Week — Director
• 1985Into the Night — SAVAK, Director
• 1985Spies Like Us — Director
• 1984The Muppets Take Manhattan — Leonard Winesop
• 1983Making Michael Jackson's Thriller — Self, Producer
• 1983Michael Jackson's Thriller — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1983Trading Places — Man with Briefcase (uncredited), Director
• 1983Twilight Zone: The Movie — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1982Coming Soon — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1982Eating Raoul — Man at Bank (uncredited)
• 1981An American Werewolf in London — Man Smashed into Window (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1981Making an American Werewolf in London
• 1980The Blues Brothers — Trooper La Fong, Director, Writer
• 19791941 — Mizerany
• 1979The Muppet Movie — Additional Muppet Performer
• 1978Animal House — Cafeteria Dishwasher, Director
• 1977The Kentucky Fried Movie — TV Technician Thrown by Gorilla (segment "A.M. Today"), Director
• 1975Death Race 2000 — Mechanic
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Michael
• 1973Battle for the Planet of the Apes — Jake's Friend
• 1973My Name Is Nobody — Stunts
• 1973Schlock — Schlock, Director, Writer
• 1972Chato's Land — Stunts
• 1971Red Sun — Henchman (uncredited)
• 1970Kelly's Heroes — Sister Rosa Stigmata, Production Assistant
• 1968Once Upon a Time in the West — Stunts
• 1968The Charge of the Light Brigade — Stunts
• 1966The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Stunts
• An American Werewolf in London — Original Film Writer, Executive Producer
• Bad Vibes — Executive Producer
• The AckerMonster Chronicles!
• The coxvw movie — Lemon
• Under the Moon — High School Principal

Appearances as themselves (84)

• 2026Gremlins, an american nightmare! — Himself
• 2025Being Eddie — Self
• 2025On a Mission from God: The Story of the Blues Brothers — Self
• 2025The Vincent Price Legacy — Himself
• 2024Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters — Self
• 2024The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee — Self
• 2023The Rise of the Comic Strip — Self
• 2023Thriller 40 — Self
• 2021Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida — Self [archival]
• 2021Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self
• 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock — Self
• 2020Belushi — Self (archive footage)
• 2019An American Filmmaker in London — Self
• 2019Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf — Self
• The Movies That Made Us — Self
• 2018Bergman: A Year in a Life — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• 2018King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen — Self
• 2015Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex — Self
• 2015Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead — Self - Director
• In Their Own Words — Self
• 2015In Their Own Words: Jim Henson — Self - Friend & Filmmaker
• 2014Out of Print — Self
• The Real History of Science Fiction — Himself
• 2013Trespassing Bergman — Self
• Bergman's Video — Self - Filmmaker
• Holliston — Himself
• 2012Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan — Self
• 2011American Grindhouse — Himself
• 2011Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis — Self
• 2011Nightmare Factory — Self
• 2011The Future of Fear — Self
• 2010David Bowie: Rare and Unseen — Self
• 2010Machete Maidens Unleashed! — Self
• 2010Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr. — Self
• 2010The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry — Self
• 2010The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth — Self
• 2009Beware the Moon: Remembering 'An American Werewolf in London' — Self
• 2009Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com — Self
• 2009Tattoos: A Scarred History — Self
• 2009Teen Spirit: Teenagers and Hollywood — Self
• 2009The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story — Self
• 2009Vittorio D. — Self
• 2008Animal House: The Inside Story — Self
• 2008Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX — Self
• 2008RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World” — Self
• 2008Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood — Self
• 2007Bloodsucking Cinema — Self
• 2007Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman — Self
• 2007Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story — Self
• 2007The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness — Self
• 2006(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style — Self
• 200642nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage — Self
• 2006Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet — Self
• 2006Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound — Self
• 2006The Sci-Fi Boys — Self
• 2005Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection — Self
• 2005Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy — Self
• 2005The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music — Self
• 2005The Perfect Scary Movie — Self
• 2004Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River — Self
• 2004Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen — Self
• 2004Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures — Self
• 2004Mario Bava: Operazione paura — Self
• 2004Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation — Self
• 2003101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Michael Jackson's Private Home Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update — Himself
• 2002Forever Ealing — Self
• 2002It's Black Entertainment — Self
• 2002Masters of Horror — Self
• 2000The American Nightmare — Self
• 1998The Abbey Road Story — Self
• 1998The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' — Self
• 1998The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion — Self - Director
• 1997Hollywood Rated 'R' — Self
• 1997Who Is Henry Jaglom? — Self
• 1996Abbott & Costello Meet Biography — Self
• 1994The Legend of Dolemite! Bigger & Badder — Self
• Martin & Lewis: Their Golden Age of Comedy — Self
• 1992The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team — Self
• 1992Venice/Venice — Self
• 1989Stephen King's World of Horror — Self
• 1982Take One: Fear on Film — Self