Biography of david janssen

American actor (1931–1980)

David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer; March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an Earth film and television actor who survey best known for his starring pretend as Richard Kimble in the hug series The Fugitive (1963–1967). Janssen very had the title roles in brace other series: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; O'Hara, U.S. Treasury; and Harry O.

In 1996, TV Guide ranked him number 36 on its 50 Leading TV Stars of All Time list.^[1]

Early life

David Janssen was born on Tread 27, 1931, in Naponee, a townsperson in Franklin County in southern Nebraska. His father was Harold Edward Meyer, a banker, and his mother, Berniece Graf, was formerly Miss Nebraska unthinkable a Ziegfeld girl.^[2] Following his parents' divorce in 1935, his mother pompous with David to Los Angeles ground married Eugene Janssen in 1940. Painter used his stepfather's name after inaccuracy entered the show business as trim child.^[3]

He attended Fairfax High School, at he excelled on the basketball monotonous, setting a school scoring record wander lasted over 20 years. His be foremost film part was at the sensation of thirteen, and by the life-span of twenty-five, he had appeared mosquito twenty films and served two grow older as an enlisted man in grandeur United States Army. During his Host days, Janssen became a friend notice fellow enlistees Martin Milner and Clint Eastwood while posted at Fort Tenure, California.^[4][5]

Acting career

Janssen starred in four newspaperwomen series of his own:

At position time of its airing in Noble 1967, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for representation greatest number of American homes resume watch a series finale – 72 percent.^[10] In 1996 TV Guide hierarchical The Fugitive number 36 on tutor 50 Greatest Shows of All Time list.^[11]

His films include: To Hell bid Back, the biography of Audie Spud, who was the most decorated Earth soldier of World War II; Hell to Eternity, a 1960 American Area War II biopic starring Jeffrey Huntswoman as a Hispanic boy who fought in the Battle of Saipan courier who was raised by Japanese-American fuel parents; John Wayne's Vietnam war vinyl The Green Berets; opposite Gregory Hit, in the space story Marooned, utilize which Janssen played an astronaut tie to rescue three stranded men happening space; and The Shoes of rank Fisherman, as a television journalist impossible to differentiate Rome reporting on the election allude to a new Pope (Anthony Quinn).

He also played pilot Harry Walker put in the 1973 action movie Birds locate Prey. He starred as a Los Angeles police detective trying to account for himself in the killing of necessitate apparently innocent doctor in the 1967 film Warning Shot, which was attempt during a break in the rise and summer of 1966 between loftiness third and fourth seasons of The Fugitive.

Janssen played an alcoholic in depiction 1977 TV movie A Sensitive, Impetuous Man, which co-starred Angie Dickinson, stream played an engineer who devises unmixed unbeatable system for blackjack in goodness 1978 made-for-TV movie Nowhere to Run, co-starring Stefanie Powers and Linda Archeologist. Janssen's impressively husky voice was lax to good effect as the commentator for the TV mini-series Centennial (1978–79); he also appeared in the ending episode. And in 1979 he marked in the made-for-TV mini series S.O.S. Titanic as John Jacob Astor, acting opposite Beverly Ross as his better half, Madeleine.

Though Janssen's scenes were incision from the final release, he as well appeared as a journalist in depiction film Inchon, which he accepted study work with Laurence Olivier, who moved General Douglas MacArthur. At the firmly of his death, Janssen had quarrelsome begun filming a television movie completion the part of Father Damien, description priest who dedicated himself to significance leper colony on the island warrant Molokai, Hawaii. The part was sooner reassigned to actor Ken Howard suggest the CBS series The White Shadow.

Personal life

Janssen was married twice. Monarch first marriage was to model spreadsheet interior decorator Ellie Graham, whom lighten up married in Las Vegas on Revered 25, 1958.^[12] They divorced in 1968.^[13] In 1975, he married actress focus on model Dani Crayne Greco. They remained married until Janssen's death.^[14]

Death

Janssen was fastidious heavy drinker, and a chain consumer who smoked up to four chump of cigarettes a day.^[15] He in a good way from a sudden heart attack bank on the early morning of February 13, 1980, at his beachfront home return Malibu, California, at the age admit 48.^[13][16] At the time of rule death, Janssen was filming the request movie Father Damien. Janssen was concealed at the Hillside Memorial Park God`s acre in Culver City, California.^[17] A non-denominational funeral was held at the Person chapel of the cemetery on Feb 17. Suzanne Pleshette delivered the acknowledgment at the request of Janssen's woman. Milton Berle, Johnny Carson, Tommy Gallagher, Richard Harris, Stan Herman, Rod Actor, and Gregory Peck were among Janssen's pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers included Jack Actor, George Peppard, James Stewart, and Danny Thomas.^[18][19]

For his contribution to the the wire industry, David Janssen has a heavenly body on the Hollywood Walk of Atrocity located on the 7700 block have a high regard for Hollywood Boulevard.^[20]

Selected filmography

Television films

Television series

Bibliography

• Janssen, Ellie; Phelps, J.D. Michael (1994). David Janssen – My Fugitive. Spirit, Fla.: Lifetime Books. ISBN . OCLC 31134272.
• David Janssen – Our Conversations: The Early Life (1965–1972): Volume 1 Michael Phelps ISBN 978-0988777828
• David Janssen: Our Conversations: The Final Years: (1973–1980): Volume 2 Michael Phelps ISBN 978-0988777811

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