John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on
Kelly's Heroes. Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "spaghetti" westerns...See full bio »
[on superstars] I've worked with Paul McCartney, and Michael Jackson, and The Blues Brothers, and David Bowie, and a lot of people that have gone through that experience, and man I think it's difficult to remain sane under those circumstances. When you see what happened to Elvis Presley - I mean...
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Airport scenes in
Into the Night and_Coming to America (1988)_ have a call over the PA system for a 'Mr Frank Ozkerwitz' to pick up the white courtesy phone. This is'Frank Oz''s real name. Landis' work frequently features Oz.
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