[5] After college, he did a stint in the U.S. Army, worked in an oil field, as an ordained Baptist minister, and a model.

[6] He then became a mainstream movie actor and appeared in a number of Hollywood films, including The Warriors (1979) as a subway policeman whose leg gets broken by a baseball bat-wielding Michael Beck, 48 Hrs.

[12] That year he was the keynote speaker at the official launch party of the radio show, The Political Cesspool.

[4] On June 25, 2008, Landham announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by Mitch McConnell, as a Libertarian.

[2][14] On July 23, 2008, Landham appeared on the political radio show The Weekly Filibuster, where he was asked, in relation to past comments of his quoted in the Louisville Courier-Journal, if he was calling for the genocide of Arab people.

[4][15] On July 28, the Kentucky Libertarian Party asked Landham to withdraw his nomination, citing those comments and explaining that his politics did not agree with their platform and values.

[2] After being convicted on federal charges of making threatening and obscene phone calls to his wife, Landham spent three years in prison.