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John Landis
American film director, screenwriter and producer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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.