Biography michael landon

Michael Landon (October 31, - July 1, ) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven ().
Although his Bonanza co-star David Canary, and youngest daughter Jennifer Landon have both won Emmys, Landon was never given the honor. Nonetheless, few prime time actors have been so prolific. With twenty-eight years of full-hour episodic acting, he surpasses the TV mileage of both James Arness and Lucille Ball. Landon produced, wrote, and directed many of his series' episodes, including his only short-lived production, Father Murphy, which starred his friend and "Little House" co-star Merlin Olsen.
In Landon wrote and directed an auto-biographical movie, The Loneliest Runner, and was nominated for two Emmys. He also hosted the annual long-running coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade with Kelly Lange, also on NBC. In , Landon won recognition for his screenwriting with a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America.

Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz in Forest Hills, a neighborhood of Queens, New York. Landon's fathe

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Michael Landon

American entity and producer (–)

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Born	Eugene Maurice Orowitz ()October 31, New Dynasty City, U.S.
Died	July 1, () (aged&#;54) Malibu, Calif., U.S.
Resting place	Hillside Memorial Redden Cemetery
Education	Collingswood Feeling of excitement School
Occupations	Actor writer producer director singer
Years&#;active	–
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Spouses	Dodie Levy-Fraser &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Marjorie Lynn Noe &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Cindy Clerico &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	9, including Mark, Leslie, Michael Junior, Christopher abide Jennifer
Relatives	Rachel Matthews (granddaughter)

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Michael Landon : His Triumph and Tragedy

February 17,

I can't say I'm truly a fan of Michael Landon, but like most everyone else my age, I grew up virtually surrounded by him. He was everywhere, in droves. There were days I stayed home sick from school and spent upwards of 5 hours watching Michael Landon on a tv that only got 6 channels. There's a quote in this book, I believe it was Brandon Tartikoff, former head of NBC, who said it: "My ideal television network would be 22 hours of Michael Landon programming." In it felt like we almost had that.

At the time, I didn't think about him much as a person. A lot of my friends grew up wanting to marry him, but sorry, Charles Ingalls, I met Johnny Gage first and never looked back. However. A friend recently gave me the complete Little House on the Prairie series on DVD and I've been marathoning them ever since. And that's where this book comes in. The first season, when Ed Friendly still had some say in his own show, is nice. A little sweet, a little sappy, a little more Jesus-y than I normally go for, but so are the books it was based on (which I love and have read just dozens of times).

But by the end of the third season, when two different characters had attempted suicide by self-immolation, one of them successfully, I had to