David Janssen


David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive . Janssen also had the title roles in three other series Richard Diamond, Private Detective Harry O and OHara, U.S. Treasury.

Janssen was born as David Harold Meyer in Naponee, a village in Franklin County in southern Nebraska, to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker and Berniece Graf . Janssen was of Irish and Jewish descent. Following his parents divorce in 1935, his mother moved with fiveyearold David to Los Angeles, California, and later married Eugene Janssen in 1940 in Los Angeles. Young David used his stepfathers name after he entered show business as a child.

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