David Janssen
David Janssen ( born March 27, 1931 in Naponee, Nebraska as David Harold Meyer, † February 13, 1980 in Malibu, California ) was an American film actor, who in the 1960s in the hit television series The Fugitive as Dr. Richard Kimble was famous.
Life
Spent his youth David Janssen in Hollywood, after his mother, Berniece Graf, a former Miss Nebraska, had also performed in the Ziegfeld Follies, had separated from his father. In 1937, she married Eugene Janssen, whose name her son used beginning his activities in show business. Janssen, who initially aspired to a career as an athlete, had to give it up because of an accident. In 1945 he had his first role in It's a Pleasure, but the production company 20th Century Fox let him then fall again because of his protruding ears soon. He moved to Universal Studios, where he received the early 1950s numerous roles.
In this time he met Clint Eastwood know, the Janssen suggested that it also pursue an acting career. Janssen is best known as a television star by the series Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1957 and especially as Richard Kimble in The Fugitive ( 1963-1967 ). After that, he was still in numerous other television roles, for example in the cult series Harry O (1974-1978) and in Colorado Saga ( 1978) to see. After he had become by Fleeing popular worldwide, Janssen received in the late 1960s in several films profiled rollers ( The Shoes of the Fisherman, 1968, Lost in Space, 1969). In the 1970s, he could no longer continue this successful movies.
From 1958 until their divorce in 1973 Ellie Graham Janssens was a partner. From 1975 he lived with actress Dani Crayne. Janssen was heavily addicted to alcohol and a heavy smoker. As reasons for his sudden death in 1980 due to a heart attack his excessive lifestyle as well as revision are suspected. There was also speculation because of alcohol or drug abuse. His final resting he found on the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.