Profile
Michael Landon
Actor + Director + Producer + Writer
Male
Born
Oct 31, 1936
Hometown
Queens
Died
Jul 1, 1991
Death Place
California
Other Names
Orowitz, Eugene M...
Michael Landon was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven… Read More
Romance
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Cindy ClericoMarried 1983 - 1991
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Lynn NoeMarried 1963 - 1982
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Marjorie Lynn NoeMarried 1963 - 1983
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Dodie Levy-FraserMarried 1956 - 1962
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Dodie FraserMarried 1956 - 1962
Family
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Michael Landon
d.1991
children
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Shawna LandonDaughter, Age 42
News + Updates
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Little House In The Big Bedford Woods Patch.ComGoogle News - Aug 31, 2011
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Savage Beats 2: A Werewolf Playlist Fea Rnet.ComGoogle News - Aug 29, 2011
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Tattle: Do 'Sexy' Nominations Doom Stars' Romances? Philadelphia InquirerGoogle News - Aug 27, 2011
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Skate Park Could Move To Boys And Girls Club Malibu TimesGoogle News - Aug 24, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1936
Birth
Born on October 31, 1936.
1941
4 Years Old
In 1941, when Landon was four years old, he and his family moved to the Philadelphia suburb of Collingswood, New Jersey.
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TEENAGE
1954
17 Years Old
In high school, Landon was an excellent javelin thrower, his 193’ 4” toss in 1954 being the longest throw by a high schooler in the United States that year.
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TWENTIES
1957
20 Years Old
In 1957, Candlelight Records released a Michael Landon single, "Gimme a Little Kiss (Will "Ya" Huh)"/ "Be Patient With Me" during the height of his notoriety for role in the film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
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In 1959, at the age of 22, Landon began his first starring TV role as Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza, one of the first TV series to be broadcast in color.
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1962
25 Years Old
Receiving more fan mail than any other cast member, the young actor negotiated with executive producer David Dortort and NBC to write and direct some episodes. In 1962, he wrote his first script.
THIRTIES
1968
31 Years Old
In 1968, he directed his first episode. In 1993, TV Guide listed Little Joe's September 1972 two-hour wedding episode ("Forever"), as one of TV's most memorable specials.
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1976
39 Years Old
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That was the coolest, he was the toughest.” When not working on the Little House set, Gilbert spent most of the weekends visiting Landon's real-life family in 1976, she once said, “The house was huge.
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FORTIES
1981
44 Years Old
In March 1981, Landon's mother, Peggy O'Neill, died.
1985
48 Years Old
By 1985, prior to hiring his son, Michael Landon, Jr., as a member of his camera crew, he also brought real-life cancer patients and disabled people to the set.
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FIFTIES
Up through the run of Highway to Heaven, all of Landon's television programs were broadcast on NBC. After the cancellation of Highway, he moved to CBS and in 1991 starred in a two-hour pilot called Us.
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