Cameos, Credits, and Other Notes on the Films of John Landis

Last updated: 21JUN00

Side note: The phrase "See You Next Wednesday" is said verbally by one of the astronaut's parents at the end of a birthday message in 2001: A Space Odyssey

AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON (1987)

Cameos: Director Russ Meyer, composer Ira Newborn, and editor Forrest J Ackerman.
 

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)

Cameos: Director Frank Oz.


Charming: Stephen Bishop plays "Charming Guy."

Credits: "All characters and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental."

Music: All the songs in the film have "moon" in the title.

See You Next Wednesday: The porno film showing when David meets Jack and his zombie friends. A poster for the film appears in the London Underground when the man is killed.
 

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)

Cameos: Stephen Bishop

Credits: Babs becomes a tour guide at Universal Studios. The credits for this film (and other John Landis films) include an ad for a tour at Universal Studios. The ad says ``Ask for Babs''. As of 1989, Universal Studios no longer honors the ``ask for Babs'' promotion, which was either a discount or a free entry.
 

BEVERLY HILLS COP III (1994)

Cameos: Alan Young, and directors Martha Coolidge, Joe Dante, Arthur Hiller, George Lucas, Peter Medak, George Schaefer, Barbet Schroeder, and John Singleton and Ray Harryhausen.
 

THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)

Cameos: James Brown, Cab Calloway, John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Twiggy, Paul Reubens, and directors Frank Oz and Steven Spielberg.

Charming: Stephen Bishop plays "Charming Trooper"

Credits: When in Hollywood, Visit Universal Studios (Ask for Babs), a reference to ANIMAL HOUSE.

Girl From Ipanema: Played in the elevator at the courthouse.

See You Next Wednesday: The message on the billboard that the cops are hiding behind.
 

BLUES BROTHERS 2000 (1998)

Cameos: Director Frank Oz, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, B.B. King, Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Eddie Floyd, Jonny Lang, Junior Wells, Lonnie Brooks, Eric Clapton, Clarence Clemons, Bo Diddley, Dr. John, John Faddis, Isaac Hayes, Billy Preston, Lou Rawls, Paul Shaffer, Koko Taylor, Travis Tritt, Stevie Winwood.

Credits: The cast sings several verses of the closing number as the credits roll; as the credits continue to roll, Junior Wells performs a song; After the last credit has finished rolling, James Brown and the Blues Brothers sing "Please, Please, Please (Don't Go)" in a scene set at the tent revival; After "Please, Please, Please" there is an ad for Universal Studios Florida. Under the logo reads "Ride the Movies" which fades out to read "(Ask for Babs)," reference to ANIMAL HOUSE.
 

COMING TO AMERICA (1988)

Cameos:  TRADING PLACES alumni Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy

Credits: "Face on Cutting Room Floor: Jim Abrahams"; Eddie Murphy-- as the old white man in the barber shop-- says: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait stop right there! Listen: Stop right there, man. A man goes into a restaurant. You listenin'? A man goes into a restaurant, and he sits down, he's having a bowl of soup and he says to the waiter, waiter come taste the soup. Waiter says: Is something wrong with the soup? He says: Taste the soup. He says: Is there something wrong with the soup? Is the soup too hot? He says: Will you taste the soup? What's wrong, is the soup too cold? Will you just taste the soup?! Allright, I'll taste the soup - where's the spoon?? Aha. Aha! ... Whadaya know from funny, you bastards?"

See You Next Wednesday: On a movie poster in the subway station (the movie claims to star Jamie Lee Curtis, who was in TRADING PLACES)
 

INNOCENT BLOOD (1994)

Cameos: Don Rickles, directors Dario Argento, Frank Oz, Sam Raimi, and Michael Ritchie, editor Forrest J. Ackerman, and makeup artist Tom Savini.

Credits: "The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, vampires, places, buildings and products is intended or should be inferred."

Old movies: TV set showing Alfred Hitchcock's cameo in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

See You Next Wednesday: Advertised on the marquee across the street from the Melody Lounge exotic dance bar.
 

INTO THE NIGHT (1985)

Cameos: Paul Bartel, David Bowie, Carl Perkins, directors Jack Arnold, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, Amy Heckerling, Jim Henson, Colin Higgins , Lawrence Kasdan, John Landis, Jonathan Lynn, Paul Mazursky, Daniel Petrie, Don Siegel, and Roger Vadim and cinematographer Robert Paynter.

Credits: Nearly everything is credited in this film, including the used-car salesmen shown in commercials and the cast of ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTIEN.

Girl From Ipanema: Played during the strip scene.

Old Movies: TV set showing ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN

See You Next Wednesday: Appears on two posters in the office where Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfieffer make a phone call.
 

KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (1977)

Charming: Stephen Bishop plays "Charming Guy."

See You Next Wednesday: Title of the "Feel-a-Rama" movie.
 

OSCAR (1991)

Cameos: ANIMAL HOUSE alumnus Mark Metcalf and Peter Riegart.

Credits: "Face on the cutting room floor: Joe Dante."
 

SCHLOCK (1971)

See You Next Wednesday: Promoted twice during the newscasts for the "Movie at 6 on 6." Also on a poster in a theater lobby.
 

SPIES LIKE US (1996)

Cameos: B.B. King and directors Michael Apted, Martin Brest, Joel Coen, Larry Cohen, Costa-Gavras, Terry Gilliam, Frank Oz, Sam Raimi, Ray Harryhausen; cinematographer Robert Paynter; and visual effects artist Derek Meddings.

See You Next Wednesday: On the recruitment poster behind the desk of the commander of the Army training post.
 

THE STUPIDS (1996)

Cameos: ANIMAL HOUSE alumni Mark Metcalf, Rolanda Watts, Jenny McCarty, Christopher Lee, Bob Keeshan, and directors Gurinder Chadha, Costa-Gavras, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Mick Garris, Norman Jewison, Gillo Pontecorvo, Robert Wise.

Credits: "Trust in the Lloyd;" "The persons and events in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, events or space aliens is unintentional. No space aliens were harmed in any way during the making of this film."

Girl From Ipanema: Playing when a woman gets into her car, just before her airbag goes off.

See You Next Wednesday: On the back of the bus that the children chain their bikes to.
 

THREE AMIGOS! (1986)

TRADING PLACES (1983)

Cameos: Jim Belushi, Al Franken, Bo Diddley, and director Frank Oz.

See You Next Wednesday: On a poster in Jamie Lee Curtis' apartment.
 

TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE - PROLOGUE/1ST SEGMENT (1983)

Cameos: Stephen Bishop.

Charming: Stephen Bishop listed in credits as "Charming G.I."

See You Next Wednesday: Spoken in German when Vic Morrow is being shot at on the building.
 

Sources

The Internet Movie Database and Evelyn Leeper's rec.arts.movies.past-films FAQ
 

And Speaking of Mr. Landis

The director himself has appeared in such films as:




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