Jack Landau

Jack Landau (December 23, 1922, in Braddock, Pennsylvania – March 15, 1967, in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American stage and television director. Early life Jack Landau was the youngest of seven children. He had one brother, Hyman Garshin Landau (1909-1966), and five sisters: Lottie Landau Applebaum (1904-1996), Rose Landau Fox (1907-1961), Edith Landau (1914-1942), Sylvia Landau Kasdan (1917-2012), and Jean Landau Glanz (1919-1955). (Sylvia is the mother of screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan.) His parents were Lazear "Leonard" Landau (1879-1936) and Anna Stopnitsky Landau (1883-1949), both Polish immigrants. Landau graduated from Peabody High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1940. He was an active and artistic student, contributing his time to the Masque and Wig Club (President), Palette and Brush Club (President), French Club, Debating Club, and the Stunt Day Committee. He was also a member of the National Honor Society, a reporter for The Civitan (the school's newspaper), and an actor in the school's 1940 play, What A Life. He graduated from St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1944. Early career