MICHAEL LANDON
Updated 04-May-2020.
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Michael Landon (1936-1991) – Auteur – Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Toutes les informations de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France sur : Michael Landon (1936-1991)
About Michael Landon – Little House on the Prairie: Michael Landon worked in many capacities on “Little House on the Prairie”, as executive producer, producer, writer, director, and actor.
Michael Landon – IMDb: Michael Landon, Actor: Little House on the Prairie. Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz, on Saturday, October 31st, 1936, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. In 1941, he and his family moved to Collingswood, New Jersey. When Eugene was in high school, he participated — and did very well — in track and field, especially javelin throwing, and his athletic skills earned him a scholarship to…
Kevin Riordan: Landon plaque sidelined; accounts vary: The relationship between Collingswood and hometown hero Michael Landon sometimes resembled the soap-operatic TV sagas that made Landon a star.
Goodbye, Little Joe: TO COUNTLESS TELEVISION VIEWERS OVER THE LAST THREE decades, Michael Landon was the shaggy-haired, ruggedly boyish personification of heartland pieties. As Little Joe Cartwright (Bonanza)…
Love Is Forever (TV Movie 1983) – IMDb: Directed by Hall Bartlett. With Michael Landon, Laura Gemser, Jürgen Prochnow, Edward Woodward. Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he will go for his girlfriend.
Michael Landon, 54, Little Joe On ‘Bonanza’ for 14 Years, Dies
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer . he is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in in 1941, when Landon was four, he and his family moved to the Philadelphia suburb of Collingswood, new jersey . he attended and celebrated his bar mitzvah at Temple Beth Shalom . on a family beach vacation his mother tried to drown herself, but Michael rescued her . his mother acted as if nothing happened and a few minutes later, Michael vomited . stress overload from the suicide attempts of Landon attended Collingswood high school and was an excellent javelin thrower . his 193 ft 4 in (58.93 m) toss in 1954 was the longest throw by a high school film roles include I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Maracaibo (1958), and The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959) he also appeared in at least 2 episodes of Dick Powell’s in 1962, both the A- and B-side of the record were re-released on the Fono-Graf label . some copies show the artist credited as the “Teenage Werewolf” in 1964, RCA Victor Records released another Landon single, “Linda Is Lonesome”/”Without You” all of Landon’s singles have since been issued on compact disc by Bear Family Records Landon wrote his first script in 1962; in 1968, he directed his first episode . in 1993, TV Guide listed Little Joe’s 1972 two-hour wedding episode (“Forever”) as one of its most memorable specials Landon appeared in all 14 seasons of the series . he was loyal to many of his Bonanza associates . the show was taken from a 1935 book written by Laura Ingalls Wilder . Landon served as executive producer, writer, and director of Little House . the show became Landon’s second-longest running series . it was retooled by NBC in 1982 as Little House: A New the series ended in 1983 . the following year, three made-for-television movies aired . in Highway to Heaven, he played a probationary angel whose job was to help people . his co-star on the show was Victor French as ex-cop Mark Gordon . in a 2015 interview, Gilbert said of Landon was executive producer, writer, and director of Highway to Heaven . he also brought real-life cancer patients and disabled people to the set . by season four, Highway dropped out of the Nielsen top 30 . co-star french would not live to see Highway’s series finale make it to air . he died of advanced lung cancer on June 15, 1989 . in 1982, he co-produced an NBC “true story” Sam’s Son is a 1984 coming-of-age feature film written and directed by Landon . the film stars Timothy Patrick Murphy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Hallie Todd, and James Karen . Karen previously Landon’s television programs were broadcast on NBC . he moved to CBS and in 1991 starred in a two-hour pilot called Us . his diagnosis on pancreatic cancer prevented the show from aired beyond Dodie Levy-Fraser, born 1948 (adopted; Dodie’s biological son), died 2009 Josh Fraser Landon, born 1960 . Marjorie Lynn Noe (married 1963; divorced 1982 in 1959, Landon’s father succumbed to a heart attack . in 1973, his eldest daughter, Cheryl, was involved in a serious car collision . she was hospitalized with serious injuries and Landon’s mother, peggy, died in march 1981. he admitted to being a chain smoker and heavy drinker . on may 9, 1991, he appeared on the Tonight show starring Johnny Carson to speak about the he appeared on the cover of life magazine after surgery for a blood clot in his leg . he was interred in a private family mausoleum at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, in Culver City the remains of his son, Mark, were also interred there upon his death in May 2009 . Landon’s son, Michael Jr., produced a memorial special called Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love a made-for-TV movie, Michael Landon, the Father I Knew, aired on CBS in may 1999 . the father-of-two co-wrote and directed by his son Michael Jr., the movie spanned a timeline from the 1960s through the early 1990s . a plaque and small playground referred to as the “Little Treehouse on the Prairie” were erected . in 2011, plaque was removed during a fall cleanup . plaque was reinstated next to a bench in a safer location the following summer .