A legendary director, John Landis is best known for his comedies, which include 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 Burke & Hare (2010). Branching out into television, Landis was Executive Producer of the HBO comedy Dream On in the early 1990s. More recently, Landis directed the Emmy Award-winning documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project.