Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis.

The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving.

As an actor, Oz appeared in a bit part as Prison Storeroom Keeper in The Blues Brothers ( 1980 ), directed by John Landis.

In 2010, Harryhausen had a brief cameo in Burke and Hare, a British film also directed by Landis.

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Landis also directed several episodes of the series.

He starred in a 2006 episode of Masters of Horror entitled " Family ", directed by John Landis and played Santa Claus in the ABC Family original film Santa Baby.

An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 comedy-horror film written and directed by John Landis, and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Griffin Dunne.

Two years later, Landis wrote, directed, and starred in his debut film, Schlock, which developed a cult following.

Category: Films directed by John Landis

Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy satire film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.

In 1977, Landis directed Kentucky Fried Movie.

In 1978, Landis directed his first film for Universal Studios, National Lampoon's Animal House, which was both critically and financially successful.

In 1979, Landis co-wrote and directed The Blues Brothers, a comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

In 1981, Landis wrote and directed another cult-status movie, the comedy-horror An American Werewolf in London.

Landis next directed the opening teaser and first segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie in 1983.

Next, Landis directed Into the Night, starring Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer and David Bowie ( a film was inspired by Hitchcock productions ; Landis played in this film a mute member of the quartet of Iranian hitmen ).

Landis also directed a video for Paul McCartney as part of the promotion for Spies Like Us, and co-wrote the comedy film Clue.

In 1986, Landis directed ¡ Three Amigos!

Landis next directed the Eddie Murphy film, Coming to America, which was a huge commercial success.

In 1994, Landis directed Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop III.

Landis returned to Universal to direct Blues Brothers 2000 in 1998, the same year he directed Susan's Plan.

Landis is set to produce the crime thriller Some Guy Who Kills People, written by Ryan Levin and directed by Jack Perez.

Michael Jackson cited this film as his reason for working with Landis on his subsequent music videos, including Thriller and Black or White.

In 1991, Landis collaborated again with Michael Jackson on the music video for the song " Black or White ".

* 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $ 29. 4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers ; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

The AVL tree is named after its two Soviet inventors, G. M. Adelson-Velskii and E. M. Landis, who published it in their 1962 paper " An algorithm for the organization of information.

Baseball's new commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis took decisive action, banning the tainted players from Major League Baseball for life.

John Landis recalled that " Although he was extremely ill he told me he could not die until he voted for Obama for President and he did.

Moriarty was disciplined for this action by then-commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

At age 21, Landis applied to become a lawyer — there were then no educational or examination requirements for the Indiana bar.

Landis received national attention in 1907 when he fined Standard Oil of Indiana more than $ 29 million for violating federal laws forbidding rebates on railroad freight tariffs.

Landis was widely praised for cleaning up the game, although some of his decisions in the Black Sox matter remain controversial: supporters of " Shoeless Joe " Jackson and Buck Weaver contend that he was overly harsh with those players.

Others blame Landis for, in their view, delaying the racial integration of baseball.

Abraham Landis had been wounded fighting on the Union side at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia, and when his parents proved unable to agree on a name for the new baby, Mary Landis proposed that they call him Kenesaw Mountain.

Landis applied for a job as a brakeman, but was laughingly dismissed as too small.

In 1886, Landis first ventured into Republican Party politics, supporting a friend, Charles F. Griffin for Indiana Secretary of State.

A seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois was vacant ; President Theodore Roosevelt offered it to Lowden, who declined it and recommended Landis.

Other recommendations from Illinois politicians followed, and Roosevelt nominated Landis for the seat.

The mahogany and marble chamber was, according to Landis biographer David Pietrusza, " just the spot for Landis's sense of the theatrical.

" When a young man stood before him for sentencing after admitting to stealing jewels from a parcel, the defendant's wife stood near him, infant daughter in her arms, and Landis mused what to do about the situation.

" In an early case, Landis fined the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company the maximum $ 4, 000 for illegally importing workers, even though Winifred Landis's sister's husband served on the corporate board.

In another decision, Landis struck down a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission's ( ICC ) jurisdiction over rebating, a practice banned by the Elkins Act of 1903 in which railroads and favored customers agreed that the customers would pay less than the posted tariff, which by law was to be the same for all shippers.

To aid the judge in determining the sentence, Landis issued a subpoena for Rockefeller to testify as to Standard Oil's assets.

A lifelong baseball fan, Landis often slipped away from the courthouse for a White Sox or Cubs game.

' " Landis reserved judgment, and the parties waited for his ruling.

Landis made no public statement as to the reasons for his failure to rule, though he told close friends that he had been certain the parties would reach a settlement sooner or later.

* Mars Crossing ( 2000 ) by Geoffrey A. Landis, about a stranded expedition ; which won the Locus Award for best first novel.