Inside Life and Tragic Final Years of 'The Fugitive' Star David Janssen

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  • @PeterOHalloran-hf2ho
    @PeterOHalloran-hf2ho 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Bring back all of those great shows The fugitive been up their with the best of them

  • @marirothbauer5407
    @marirothbauer5407 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yes true he was about to do another series when he died.
    He was extremely popular. Never heard a bad word about him. Charisma just oozed from him. Very sad he died so young it has been 44 years
    Hard to believe.
    💙 💘 💙

  • @robertm.-certifieddaytrade4939
    @robertm.-certifieddaytrade4939 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    He was AWESOME in the fugitive!!!!
    A MASTERPIECE...

    • @dicksanders8206
      @dicksanders8206 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Best show ever on television. They had 3-dimensional characters, dramatic story lines, and great music. I still watch this show today (in 2023). Still my favorite show.

    • @scottmiller6495
      @scottmiller6495 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mine too The Fugitive is still the greatest Drama Television Series of All Time, and it made along with The Outer Limits A B C a powerful major Network!!!!!

    • @Stiffd1
      @Stiffd1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was so surprised to learn he had an ego bigger than mine(!) and tumultuous hissy fits on-set. He was one of the golden legends of the b/w screen. Love him.

    • @adamnoman4658
      @adamnoman4658 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No.
      - -

  • @mariaperry8444
    @mariaperry8444 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    He was handsome man love watching the figtive watch it every Sunday at 2am ❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @6Haunted-Days
      @6Haunted-Days 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ummm it's on TH-cam for free as in all of it why wait every week for 2am 🤣

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@6Haunted-Days Why don't you stop pissing everyone off?!!

    • @BrianCarnevaleB26
      @BrianCarnevaleB26 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      just watched it. woke up after 4 solid hours of sleep.
      what a great show!
      4 packs a smokes day, what was he thinkin? He looked much older than he was.
      Always liked him.
      RIP

  • @carriedenison6803
    @carriedenison6803 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My Mom loved him!! ❤❤❤ He was Great in The Fugitive

    • @carriedenison6803
      @carriedenison6803 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I stay up late on Sunday Nights and watch The Fugitive at 1:00 am ❤
      David Jansen was So Handsome ❤ sad he passed away so Young 😥 48 😥

  • @karenharris722
    @karenharris722 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I try to watch The Fugitive on Monday mornings (2 a.m.) on MeTV in the Seattle area. Totally awesome show!

    • @6Haunted-Days
      @6Haunted-Days 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ummm it's on TH-cam for free the whole series why wait once a week for a tv 🙄🤣 you old people are funny it didn't occur to you to search for it on TH-cam or Pluto or Tubi?!? All free.

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@6Haunted-Days Unduly harassed anyone else of late, TWIT?!!

    • @waynepeters6071
      @waynepeters6071 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@karenharris722
      Well said

    • @philiphatfield-ev4kj
      @philiphatfield-ev4kj 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My Dad loved "The Fugitive", but he said that at the end of the final episode, it would have been perfect if a dozen or so law enforcement officers from several states had showed up to arrest Kimble for the various crimes he committed while on the run. The IRS would have been after him as well for all of the fake names that he used to get jobs!

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@philiphatfield-ev4kj Well, I guess that's show biz!

  • @davidlovera2879
    @davidlovera2879 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I think he was a great actor in "The Fugitive".. Lots of actors back then smoked or drank alcohol , not realizing that it would eventually catch up with them..He always displayed a calm demeanor in the series, "The Fugitive".. He was a very good actor*.. 💯💖💞👍👌✌️🎥🎬😊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✝️🇺🇸

    • @richardparisette7910
      @richardparisette7910 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agree completely. He made every episode interesting. There was something about his
      Looks and voice that
      made him a true star.

    • @ralphshelley9586
      @ralphshelley9586 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      WW2 gi's were given cartons of cigs!

  • @alfredodedarc
    @alfredodedarc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    He was a human being with all the flaws, weaknesses and strengths we all have.

  • @alpha7ization
    @alpha7ization ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Just started watching these again on you tube....great acting and scenery ...it reminded me of a simpler time. But yeah the never ending threat of Gerard and Kimbles ability to elude him made the show

  • @mansurazeez2229
    @mansurazeez2229 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Lt. Gerard's obsession to capture Dr Richard Kimble made these two characters in the Fugitive series like cat and mouse chase until the end when both Gerard and Kimble caught the one-armed man as the real killer. Good acting by David Jansen (Dr Richard Kimble) and Barry Morse (Lt. Gerard).

    • @michaelgillespie1206
      @michaelgillespie1206 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always thought that show was stupid as hell, that detective would not have had a full time job searching for "The Fugitive", besides, as soon as he left L.A. county, he would have been out of his jurisdiction.

    • @mansurazeez2229
      @mansurazeez2229 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@michaelgillespie1206 it's just a tv series.

    • @DariusSarrafi
      @DariusSarrafi ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@michaelgillespie1206 Apparently you haven't been watching shows like Forensic Files. The FBI often gets help from local cops! BTW, Girard was modeled after Inspector Javert of Les Miserables!

    • @thehair1474
      @thehair1474 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Who could ever forget the final Fugitive episode, when they finally got the one armed man to confess to the murder, and Gerard gives Kimble the gun. That horrific fight on the top of the amusement park ride, and the climax when Gerard shoots the one armed man dead. OMG, it was a national sensation and the entire country tuned in.

    • @Daniel-sh3os
      @Daniel-sh3os 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@michaelgillespie1206 You were really looking for realism in a tv show, especially back then? You must of loved shows like Quincy and Murder She Wrote.

  • @eshjane
    @eshjane ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I always watched this show because he was so handsome ❤.

  • @malcolmcook7007
    @malcolmcook7007 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Great actor with style and class! Great TV OHara!

  • @jackeaker9192
    @jackeaker9192 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fugitive not only a great show but showed america at a great time.never thought he was acting.always seemed a sad person.but timeless .haunted by Conrad's voice my whole life.

  • @Stiffd1
    @Stiffd1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    William Conrad also another legend of the small screen was the familiar v/o to 'The Fugitive' and then later became Fat CANNON.

    • @bailey9r
      @bailey9r 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Before "The Fugitive" Conrad was the voice of Matt Dillon for nine years on the radio version of "Gunsmoke".

  • @philiphatfield-ev4kj
    @philiphatfield-ev4kj ปีที่แล้ว +49

    This is crap. This iconic actor was always in demand. Johnny Carson said that he was one of the nicest persons he ever met.

    • @wayneshook6968
      @wayneshook6968 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think l saw the episode where they found the one armed man but l would like to see it again

    • @wayneshook6968
      @wayneshook6968 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I am still big fan of The Fugitive

    • @philiphatfield-ev4kj
      @philiphatfield-ev4kj ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wayneshook6968 I am too, but "Harry O" had the potential to be just as good, but the idiots who ran ABC in the 1970's moved it around so much that it never achieved the ratings it deserved.

    • @6Haunted-Days
      @6Haunted-Days 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And? He was mediocre actor and was in demand but starred in crap tv movies of the week and junk....why you acting lien he was some screen legend of movies? 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@6Haunted-Days And why are you acting like a GD JERK?!!

  • @ralphshelley9586
    @ralphshelley9586 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Watching 1963 season. Great look back on the world at 10.

  • @loribragg2947
    @loribragg2947 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I watched The Fugitive as a kid in the 1960s. I don’t remember much, only that I felt sad for Richard Kimble. I just watched the remake of The Fugitive with Harrison Ford (one of my favorite films) and started thinking about the original tv series. I have to say that Janssen’s work ethic, combined with heavy use of alcohol and cigarettes aged him well past his actual age of 48. But back then, just about everybody smoked and drank in Hollywood. Considering the insane hours he worked, it’s not surprising he found relief in cigarettes and alcohol. Today’s overworked actors either do drugs and alcohol, or go the other route and become health nuts. The latter seems a better choice; they’ll certainly live longer and extend their career as well.

    • @Stiffd1
      @Stiffd1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I think it's due to his earlier athletic merits. And boyish, shy on screen presence made him a hit, especially as Kimble. A human torch that burned so brightly and so quickly... x

    • @loribragg2947
      @loribragg2947 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Stiffd1 I think being very shy and working in a field that puts you in the spotlight is a peculiar stress in itself. I know Paul Newman was very introverted and used alcohol just to function normally around cast and crew. When he finally quit drinking (or cut back; I don’t know if he ever fully quit) it was noted that he pretty much stayed in his trailer on set.

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My husband died from smoking. I just never understood this type of addiction!

    • @loribragg2947
      @loribragg2947 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@karenharris722 I had a great uncle that was a chain smoker. He got emphysema from it. I had terrible asthma, and from my child’s viewpoint it seemed to me he was perpetually in the throes of an asthma attack. He died when I was about seven years old. He was addicted right up to his death. I never had any desire to smoke because of that.

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@loribragg2947 I never did either, Lori. I couldn't stand the smell of it let alone smoke myself.

  • @ruffknight9549
    @ruffknight9549 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Best show ever.....IMO.

  • @helendurham7156
    @helendurham7156 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love Harry-O! Very good acting. Cool and kind of Macho..

  • @barneyrubbles2485
    @barneyrubbles2485 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    'The Fugitive' i watched in ireland, it was a great show.

  • @MsBackstager
    @MsBackstager ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I never heard of him being difficult on the set.

    • @shannoncrystal2013
      @shannoncrystal2013 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      nor did I.

    • @thehair1474
      @thehair1474 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@shannoncrystal2013 nor has anyone.

    • @silverguard8105
      @silverguard8105 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He wasn't. He was beloved in Hollywood. Many people he worked with attended his funeral.

    • @MsBackstager
      @MsBackstager ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@silverguard8105 Women costars especially loved him.

    • @thehair1474
      @thehair1474 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MsBackstager ask Angie Dickinson, in particular. ALL his female co-stars loved him.

  • @aquillafleetwood4209
    @aquillafleetwood4209 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Cigarettes, has sent many to an early grave! Glad I only tried a few in my younger days!
    I liked the Fugitive!

    • @revrotunda3206
      @revrotunda3206 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cigarettes don’t kill everyone at 48 but 4 packs a day is more than excessive. He was reportedly a heavy drinker which will age a person dramatically. He looked 68 instead of 48 before he died.

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@revrotunda3206 My husband smoked for forty years, and it killed him too. I hate being a widow!

    • @teodinu883
      @teodinu883 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, he looked twenty years older. ​@revrotunda3206

  • @joanshannon5385
    @joanshannon5385 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    He was not difficult on set.

    • @shaunw9270
      @shaunw9270 ปีที่แล้ว

      Were you there?

  • @Marilynlovesebiking
    @Marilynlovesebiking ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Agree, lots of errors on this video. He was a nice guy and hard worker. He was not difficult on set. Such BS on these stupid videos. I am watching just to see some photos of him.

  • @johngomez7314
    @johngomez7314 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Whoever said he was mediocre is mediocre

    • @karenharris722
      @karenharris722 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah, this person has big problems!

    • @kathyherbinger3682
      @kathyherbinger3682 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well said.

  • @shaunw9270
    @shaunw9270 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I enjoyed The Fugitive and saw most of the b&w episodes on British TV reruns in the 80's. I never saw any of the colour episodes so I still haven't seen the concluding episodes.

    • @petevaldezbc1
      @petevaldezbc1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I converted the season 4 episodes to B&W to keep consistency. It makes the last season hit better. If I watch them on my iPad I just apply the grayscale color filter

  • @PeterOHalloran-hf2ho
    @PeterOHalloran-hf2ho 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He was great friends with Richard Harris they lived close enough to each other he was one of the greats playing his roll as Dr Richard Kemble lost away to young ❤

  • @davedee4382
    @davedee4382 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Fugitive is an American crime drama television series created by Roy Huggins and produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television. It aired on ABC from September 1963 to August 1967.
    O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (on-screen title is O'Hara, United States Treasury) was an American television crime drama starring David Janssen and broadcast by CBS during the 1971-72 television season.
    Harry O, sometimes spelled Harry-O, is an American private detective series that aired for two seasons on ABC from 1974 to 1976. It reran on CBS late night.

  • @teodinu883
    @teodinu883 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He looks twenty years older. Heavydrinking and chainsmoking took his soul.

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It can do that the cigarettes and alcohol. He often drank hard liquor, usually Burboun.

  • @marirothbauer5407
    @marirothbauer5407 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everyone loved him

  • @linda2073
    @linda2073 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Suzanne Pleshett said he was the love of her life.

  • @roquefortfiles
    @roquefortfiles 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The guy was all of 48 when he died. He looked 68.

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The cigarettes and the consumption of alcohol can do it.

  • @leondraw1766
    @leondraw1766 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    He had some gigantic ears lol.

    • @Marilynlovesebiking
      @Marilynlovesebiking ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes. But he refused to do plastic surgery for them. He stated that people’s features are what made them stand out.

    • @revrotunda3206
      @revrotunda3206 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Marilynlovesebiking
      And he eventually had his hair styled to obscure his ears

    • @patsvideos4471
      @patsvideos4471 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There was nothing wrong with his ears

  • @travels129
    @travels129 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was very popular suited that role

  • @allisonmcsurely1987
    @allisonmcsurely1987 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Good grief, this is messed up. So many errors, including wrong photos. Does no one fact check or edit anymore?

    • @bigbootyhunta
      @bigbootyhunta 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Suzanne Pleshette was gorgeous!

    • @markwood3389
      @markwood3389 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I blew soda out my nose when I saw that picture of Christopher Plummer at 2:05. 🤣

  • @RaveDave871
    @RaveDave871 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Woke Hollywood overlooked him for awards n honors for not bein one of them eg his role in John Wayne's Green Berets

    • @markwood3389
      @markwood3389 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Woke Hollywood 🤣Someone's been watching too much right-wing media. It's not all about politics, dude. He wasn't gonna win an Oscar for Green Berets. 🤣

  • @davedee4382
    @davedee4382 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Are you sure? Wasn’t Harry O on CBS? Charlie’s on ABC?

    • @dicksanders8206
      @dicksanders8206 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Fugitive was on CBS. Harry O on ABC. Harry O was canceled too soon. Probably because of the annoying Lt Trench, and also that crappy sports car they gave Harry to drive. Mannix got a good car. Details make a difference. Jannsen was a good actor.

    • @WendyQallab
      @WendyQallab ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He looked far too old for his age. He was a great actor.

    • @davedee4382
      @davedee4382 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dicksanders8206 no. Now I watched the Fugitive when it originally aired. It was on ABC.

    • @dicksanders8206
      @dicksanders8206 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, on Harry O, he did. That was a result of drinking and smoking, which killed hiim before age 50. Sad. @@WendyQallab

    • @dicksanders8206
      @dicksanders8206 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're right, it was on ABC. I was in high school then so only caught episodes here and there. Great to see it as a mature adult. Such a good show.@@davedee4382

  • @alfredodedarc
    @alfredodedarc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They tried a reboot. Much more difficult to pull off even in 2005 with all the ways people could be located even then.

  • @joanshannon5385
    @joanshannon5385 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was his first wife not the second.

  • @kevinmadden1645
    @kevinmadden1645 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Is there any truth to rhe rumor that Jansen was the illegitimate son of Clark Gable?

    • @rockyracoon3233
      @rockyracoon3233 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I heard a similar story about Pernell Robert's being the illegitimate son of Henry Fonda.

    • @clugul
      @clugul 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gable wasn’t David’s father.

    • @kevinmadden1645
      @kevinmadden1645 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rockyracoon3233 That would explain why he was a kooky liberal .

    • @kevinmadden1645
      @kevinmadden1645 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@clugul Maybe not but there is a resemblance,especially those jug ears.

  • @maryjanemccarthy2907
    @maryjanemccarthy2907 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    🥰

  • @Farhad-q7i
    @Farhad-q7i 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How could he appear on the screen "during the 1980s" if he died in 1980?

    • @kathyherbinger3682
      @kathyherbinger3682 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly. David Jansen showed the realness of people during his time when other shows were so phony. A true Hollywood icon during the 60's and 70's, who touched many people with his authenticity when most of Hollywood was just fake.

  • @jamesnini8475
    @jamesnini8475 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What tragic. In the title, click bait. Just to pull you in.

  • @darrellbutler884
    @darrellbutler884 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why did he seem to hate himself?

    • @rdesarle
      @rdesarle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This story is BS.

  • @davedee4382
    @davedee4382 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dani was gorgeous!!! She had been married to Buddy Grecco.

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Millennial TH-camr. Who didn’t bother to check the facts before uploading garbage.

  • @marirothbauer5407
    @marirothbauer5407 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    David smoked around 4pktsva day
    😱 that would mill anyone.

  • @alrent2992
    @alrent2992 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Anybody smoking 4 packs a day and dies can not come as a shock. Those people were ignorant!

    • @Nanmoses2023
      @Nanmoses2023 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We all are ignorant, in many ways.

  • @tychosnova2896
    @tychosnova2896 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    SPOILER ALERT!!!

  • @6Haunted-Days
    @6Haunted-Days 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    CHRIST he was only 49!? He looked 70! Hell he looked 49 in the Fuigitive series! LMFAO no way he was like 30?!? When it started? What TF. He was a mediocre actor I mean come on 🤣

    • @bigbootyhunta
      @bigbootyhunta 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I always thought he looked in his 40's and not in his 30's when The Fugitive aired. I really liked Harry-O also.

  • @mlevi9206
    @mlevi9206 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clark’s son

    • @clugul
      @clugul 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nope