List of Famous people with last name Landis

John Landis

First Name John
Last Name Landis
Born on August 3, 1950 (age 73)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for the comedy films that he has directed, such as The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Trading Places (1983), Three Amigos (1986), Coming to America (1988) and Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), and for directing Michael Jackson's music videos for "Thriller" (1983) and "Black or White" (1991).

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Max Landis

First Name Max
Last Name Landis
Born on August 3, 1985 (age 38)

Max Landis is an American writer and filmmaker, and the son of director John Landis. He wrote scripts for the films Chronicle (2012), American Ultra (2015), Victor Frankenstein (2015), Bright (2017), and Shadow in the Cloud (2020), the last of which was rewritten after he was removed from the project. He directed the film Me Him Her (2015), produced the Syfy series Channel Zero (2016) and created the series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) for BBC America. He has also written limited series published by DC and Image Comics.

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Floyd Landis

First Name Floyd
Last Name Landis
Born on October 14, 1975 (age 48)

Floyd Landis is an American former professional road racing cyclist. Landis at first appeared to be the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, and the third non-European winner in the event's history, before testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The competition was ultimately won by Óscar Pereiro. Landis was an all-around rider, with special skills in climbing, time-trialing, and descending. Landis turned professional in 1999 with the Mercury Cycling Team. He joined the U.S. Postal Service team in 2002, and moved to the Phonak Hearing Systems team in 2005. In January 2010, a French judge issued a national arrest warrant for Landis on computer hacking charges related to the 2006 doping allegations.

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Jessie Royce Landis

First Name Jessie
Born on November 25, 1896
Died on February 2, 1972 (aged 75)

Jessie Royce Landis was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959).

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Carole Landis

Frances Lillian Mary Ridste
First Name Carole
Last Name Landis
Born on January 1, 1919
Died on July 5, 1948 (aged 29)
Height 166 cm | 5'5

Carole Landis was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C. from United Artists. Landis was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure.

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Kenesaw Mountain Landis

First Name Kenesaw
Born on November 20, 1866
Died on November 25, 1944 (aged 78)

Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His firm actions and iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership are generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game.

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Mark A. Landis

First Name Mark
Last Name Landis
Born on March 10, 1955 (age 69)

Mark Augustus Landis is an American painter who lives in Laurel, Mississippi. He is best known for "donating" large numbers of forged paintings and drawings to American art museums.

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Deborah Nadoolman Landis

First Name Deborah
Born on May 26, 1952 (age 71)

Deborah Nadoolman Landis is an American author, historian, professor, and costume designer. She has worked on notable films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Three Amigos, all of which credited her as Deborah Nadoolman. Landis served two terms as president of the Costume Designers Guild of which she has been a member for more than thirty years. She is married to director John Landis; their son is screenwriter Max Landis.

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Geoffrey A. Landis

First Name Geoffrey
Last Name Landis
Born on May 28, 1955 (age 68)

Geoffrey Alan Landis is an American aerospace engineer and author, working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary exploration, interstellar propulsion, solar power and photovoltaics. He holds nine patents, primarily in the field of improvements to solar cells and photovoltaic devices and has given presentations and commentary on the possibilities for interstellar travel and construction of bases on the Moon, Mars, and Venus.

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Evgenii Landis

First Name Evgenii
Born on October 6, 1921
Died on December 12, 1997 (aged 76)

Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis was a Soviet mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential equations.

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