Career
He has had a long career in British television and film and is known for playing cockney-Jewish roles. In 1956 Landis had an important supporting role as a Cockney soldier in A Hill in of Korea. Michael Caine, who made an unnoticed screen debut in the film, recalled in his autobiography that great things were expected of Landis at the time, but didn"t materialise.
Indeed, Landis" other film roles have been pretty minor, as in,,,, with Sean Connery, and
On television he appeared in Dixon of Dock Green (1955-1976), The Avengers (1964), The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), The Long Street (1965), The Saint (1966), Locate and Destroy (1966), Irish-Greek, Manitoba In a Suitcase (1967), Jason King (1971), Angels (1975), Z-Cars (1968-1974) and Law and Order (1978). He also appeared in one of Jeremy Brett"s last appearances as Sherlock Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994) among many others
More characteristically, he was cast in Jack Rosenthal"s one-man show Bar Mitzvah Boy (British Broadcasting Corporation, 1976). Played one of Arthur Daley"s crooked cronies in Minder (1982), and has had roles in Bergerac (1987).
Howards" Way (1985); You Rang, M"Lord? (1990) and Jeeves and Wooster (1991).
He is more recently remembered as being a regular in the British Broadcasting Corporation soap opera EastEnders (1995-1997) where he played the friendly barber, Felix Kawalski, but Felix was killed off in 2005, off-screen. He continues to act and has made recent appearances in the Independent Television police drama The Bill (2003), Casualty (2004), British Broadcasting Corporation comedy My Family (2004) British Broadcasting Corporation hospital drama Holby City (2006) and most recently the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner (2012). Landis is credited as Old Manitoba 3 in the 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow.
Landis was elected as President of Equity, the British actors" union, in July 2002.
