inchbond442 they were gentlemen helping each other out. well said.xx

We will never see men of their caliber again.

@@ryanhodges7101 although Johnny Carson actually wasn't as nice as I thought he was . There's a wonderful biography about him here on KZfaq on the audio books and it was very well written by one of his best friends who was also his lawyer and I was kind of surprised at the kind of person Johnny Carson could sometimes be .

@@gardensofthegods thank you! Do you know how I can find it?

@@ryanhodges7101 you mean that audiobook ? Hold on ... I can't send links but I will tell you the name of it and what channel it's on

And all of them now are gone.

@@frankpaya690Only Doc is left….

Thank you, Juan!!!

@@Kevin_Harte I think David was troubled and possibly in need of counselling. Despite that he worked extremely hard, making great films and many people loved him and he was also a great actor. His Fugitive series is 're running and I still enjoy watching him. Rest in peace David.xx

Juan Santiago The Fugitive was one of the best shows ever

@Juan Santiago Don't listen to others. He was the man you remember who gave you that autograph.

he was great on fugitive

Bell bottoms as David walked out...🥶as heck

I think the reason he drank so much was because he was unhappy the 2 women he married were so wrong for him I think he was a man in torment such a tragic loss to the acting fraternity love him always 💖💖

@@patriciatulloch4252 Both of his parents outlived him by more than a decade.

He looked like he was in his 60s.

@@logicalnetwork1611 True he looked so much older than 44. Sad.

Hey! I have the body of an 80 year old man! It’s in a freezer down in the basement, he didn’t wanna pay his gambling debts 🥁 bada boom bada bing!!

When you drink a quart of vodka a day, your never legally sober. Your maintenance level is probably around a . 2 Notice though he does not slur his words, I've seen that before in heavy drinkers/alcoholics, Somebody drinking that much a day if they stopped drinking cold turkey, they'd probably have a grand- mal seizure after a couple of days.

Its on the trivia page on Imdb.com I checked it out myself, blew me away when I read than Gene Kelly was another one of the pallbearers

Johnny Carson was at David’s funeral but he was not a pallbearer. There are online photos that show the pallbearers (including Gregory Peck, Milton Berle, Gene Kelly, Rod Stewart, Jack Valenti, & the husbands of Suzanne Pleshette & Linda Evans).

@@clugul I think also Richard Harris

@@Rylosalex wow what an illustrious group to be there for him ... picture them all hanging out drinking and having fun . I can't remember where I heard that when David Jensen was alive his house was the place to be for the best Oscar party on the night of the Academy Awards .

@@gardensofthegods and don Rickles

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Vatornotino they did very well with humour which was kind of them. God rest David's soul. a beautiful man in more ways than one.xx

Could have just been tired and jet lagged. His friend said he was the hardest working actor in Hollywood.

He looks like he's bombed on this show, and he sounds it as well

@@stevencollins5806 but he is also just flown in from Japan which is a 14-hour flight so he's probably a combination of exhausted , liquored up , and maybe even some kind of a pill ... maybe a muscle relaxer ...

@@stevencollins5806 : His voice actually sounds like Dean Martin.

I know it's pretty off topic but does anybody know of a good website to watch new tv shows online?

@@landennixon9532 - perhaps the website of the channel that the show is on? ....just guessing. 🤔

He seemed drunk

If you read my conversations by Michael Phelps you'll understand why he drank so much think it had a lot to do with the women he married wish I'd never read them so heartbreaking 😢

I agree with Patricia! Also, I think that people tried to help him. Sometimes, it's not enough depending on the person that they try to help. And I blame David's parents for "throwing him away" instead of being good parents to him. I also blame the 2 women that he was married to. It sounds like they were so controlling.

Not Don,No way

@@peterkawe6451 Not Don,David Janssen

Michael .Wise very well said.xx

He did seem nervous and shy doing live with Tim Conway. "The comedy team of David Janssen and Tim Conway 1965"

As himself probably. However as a young actor he did a lot of stage work. A very special unfortunately ruined by alcohol and cigarettes. Went way to soon.

Tv was so great once upon a time

@@farnumbp the good old days when I was a kid staying up late and watching these

When he did Harry-O, I don't think he was acting, he was playing himself. He was known for being a heavy drinker and a four-pack a day smoker. He died about two months before his 49th birthday. easily here he looks like he could have been 60.

@@frankpaya690 Harry-O will always be one of my top favorite tv series from the 1970's.

I was just thinking that same thing. Actually all 4 of them seemed drunk

Gawd, I wouldnt go that far!

Great story was it the fugitive they were filming

I believe they were filming The Fugitive. To this day I see that area in a lot of old shows that I watch.

i'm a big fan of the fugitive i'm from Ireland i remember my father said to me when the last two episodes were on tv the entire country came to a standstill, David Janssen he always came across as a gentleman it's a pity he died so young

So.Cal. Had to be great then. Looking at those old B&W shows you could see the countryside was clean the towns very quaint. Sad to see where it is today.

@@EMGL33 somebody in another thread here tells an interesting story that they said was actually in a book written by his friend actor Peter Phelps from Mission Impossible fame . They said about a month before he died he announced that he wanted to divorce his wife . 5 days before he died he had to take a physical exam for the insurance company for the film industry and he passed that ... they said he also did not have cirrhosis of the liver at the time he died . They said his wife came over kicked out the cook and the house-made and told them she was going to cook him a special meal ... makes you wonder if she poisoned him with something that gave him a heart attack that wasn't detected .

Two great wits, and two great tits.

BULLS**T!

I very much agree. I often wonder if his inner sadnes wasen't because he never had kids. Nobody mentions that.

@@krakerkrunch Like one comedian once said, their alot of trouble, but they're worth it??😈☠

@@TrackTruth That is humor, I recognize that. :)

@@eddieyeoman6950 It never goes over very well but these guys sitting there were all WWII vets, Ed had been a Colonel in the USMC. All of them made it through the Depression, the dust bowl, Polio, and all other problems. They had much more to draw upon to act. Today it's kind of like mashed potato's.

Well, a team of psychologists here! I have to say that most folk of my parents’ generation who would have been well into their thirties in 1976, would have cringed then, as they would do now in their 80s, if they had stumbled upon this. At least in the fairly decent and fairly educated circles that I know. (Though it’s possible for feisty old men to regress as they get older and suddenly get a kick out of these things: “Them was the not so politically correct days! They was great!.” (The bad grammar a deliberate ploy to take the sting out of what they know to be somewhat ridiculous). I think I had read once that Roger Moore, who was born around the same year as David Janssen, said something along the lines that he was of a lucky age: he was just a few years too young to have been compelled to join the army and fight in the War. That is WW2. I gathered from that that he had no regrets about being “lucky”. But it is possible that some of his generation, born in the early 30s, did have regrets; and quite possibly regretted their unlucky date of birth, as it were. This would have been more pronounced in feeling by those who were young teenagers in 1945 and still missed out on serving their country in Korea in the early 1950s, and then, to make them even gloomier and possibly self-destructive, their country goes to war in Vietnam when they are plainly too old and crocked to volunteer. Millions of American men born in the 1930s must have felt bad that way. And so we have the trio of WW2 vets, the bouncier older fellas in this chat show making themselves look like a million dollars in front of the sadder, younger, inexperienced gentleman in the guise of David Janssen. When I say “inexperienced”, I mean, well, all the clues are here. If I recall correctly, Janssen was about to make a joke about serving as a corporal (briefly) in some safe haven on Californian territory. Perhaps he thought that Don Rickles was setting him up for that. In reality, Janssen had landed himself in a pickle of the vets’ smug and arrogant boastfulness. Now Johnny Carson should, as talented and decent as he was, to rein in Rickles a bit here. Janssen is clearly a man down here, and for a bit more than one or two reasons. Also, for as long as Janssen refers to Japan, the more the war looms in the minds of his fellow guests, the more Janssen’s credibility suffers in their company. His statement at the start that he was in superior company (am I right here?) was a clue about his vexation and the form of the talk to come. And so yes, it’s all about the fear, even among mature men, of being upstaged, of appearing a minnow on public television. I have watched this clip twice, I think. I cringe, yet find it fascinating too. The other thing is the aura that David Janssen had as Dr Richard Kimble from his time on The Fugitive. He was billed as a Korean War vet on the show. Now I don’t think David Janssen served in Korea, in reality. He was in the army briefly, like Clint Eastwood (who, like Janssen and Moore, was born in about 1930). But it’s clear here that, now I don’t particularly want to cast scorn on Rickles as he is a very effective “insult comedian” (as he has been described on this thread by someone else, and Janssen was quite possibly his own worst enemy, as painful as his own family circumstances might have been), the meet-the-public-via-chat-show-format-with-celebrity-friends is a weapon of mass destruction. It’s as if a whole lot of everybody’s bad points come oozing out just as a tear to the eye always annoyingly appears in mine when Elton John’s Sad Song song comes on the radio and other folk are about. It’s unfortunately very easy in a fast nation like America to feel as if you are going nowhere fast. And for men in America born in the 1930s, many of them probably let others bring them down another peg or two. Eastwood and Moore had a certain mental toughness that Janssen did not cultivate, seemingly. Yes, it’s sad he did not have kids. Dammit! It’s sad that good old Oliver Hardy did not have any! I wish they had their direct descendants among us. It may have been that a certain vulnerability and sensitivity within David Janssen were what got him the role as the fugitive doctor. The best episodes were in the first series. And in my mind he affected the bad guy very subtly and brilliantly in a double bill when he makes out to two young guys who rob a gas station and kidnap him and a young lady customer that he is in fact “one of them”. All the guys are in the stocks. Somehow Janssen is getting the worst of it here. Television has been more destructive than we’ll ever realise. Somehow the image of the traumatised veteran of the Great War is different to that of WW2. The crassness and the oneupmanship have not changed today, however. They hide behind political correctness. I’ll finish off with an amusing wee anecdote. Well, it’s from memory, from an obituary in The Times newspaper in England. About ten years ago I read of the death of a notable professor of classics at some top English university. Perhaps it was Oxford. He had joined the army straight out of school, as soon as he was old enough, in the final year of the war, so in 1944. Although he had been at a very exclusive school, private, I think I recall reading that he joined the army quickly as an ordinary soldier so he could see some action. And so he did: during field exercises in the picturesque region of Cumbria in north-west England, where lovely hilly peaks and lakes are to be found. Unfortunately, in late 1944 his Bren gun carrier overturned and he ended up with a smashed leg and a permanent limp and having to use a cane. In the following summer, in 1945, or perhaps the year after, the young man and by now university student, who had been invalided out of the army before his basic training was completed, received an invitation to attend a summer fête at his exclusive old school to meet fellow old boys who had served, the current pupils, and General Montgomery himself. As the general worked his way down the line of young men, listening to their stories and the theatres they fought in, commiserating with them on their lost friends and with those who had lost limbs, he eventually reached our young man who was studying the classics. So you can imagine the conversation: “Ah, I see you have a walking stick, young man. In the thick of it were you?” “You could say, Sir.” “War is a blasted business. Terrible, frightful. But we all had to do our bit. Which service were you in?” “In the army, Sir.” “And which area did you suffer the injury in?” “In the Lake District. On exercise, Sir.” The obituary was not in dialogue form, but that was the gist of it. I’ll finish off by remarking that on press photos from February of 1980, taken at David Janssen’s funeral, Johnny Carson, Richard Harris and Rod Stewart all attended. An American, a tough Irishman and a good old Scots/Englishman rocker type. David Janssen was a household name in many theatres. A household name! It’s a phrase that has regrettably lost currency in our mountain of coarseness today, in the internet age.

I'm right there with you watching the shows like clockwork. On season 3 atm. Classic!🗞🎬💆🏾‍♂️

When they said he was 48 years old when he died I thought he was considerably older than that

@Qasim Hussain although I'm not good at guessing what people should look like at what age because some people look really good for their age I think he looks there like at least late 50s but I've also thought really maybe he looks more like over 60

He wasn’t a great actor, far from it! He was surly and wooden!

@@kevinholly5517, unnecessary thing to say. You’re one of the few who would say that. What did you expect from him as an actor-effusive emoting?

Someone tells a very shocking story that makes it sound like his wife poisoned him or gave him something to give him a heart attack

Hard to believe he was in his mid 40s in this. He looks older.

@@marclaclear6628 Actors lived harder lives and exercised and ate right far less

Wow, he looks far older then 44.

@@man-bagdammit2297, yes, he looked quite the Methuselah, aye? 😂🤪 With one foot in the grave and the other slipping on a banana peel. C’mon! He didn’t look THAT bad.

@@man-bagdammit2297 45, actually. Not that you can see a difference. He was born in 1931....

Ohara, U.S. Treasury.

@@vatonorteno yup, that's it..

@@vatonorteno, “O’Hara, U.S. Treasury” AND “Harry O”. I think the O in Harry O stood for Orwell.

@@bwsmyhero ...bing bing bing...you are correct!

Wow I'm not surprised he was a generous person like that , not surprised at all . In his books did he mention the parties at the Jensen house on the Academy Awards night ? I heard somewhere that his house was the place to be on Oscar night because he would have a great party that people did not want to miss ... anything about that in Phelps' book ?

Did David janssen have any children?

@@gardensofthegods Don't know about the book, but yes, I've heard several times that David and his wife Dani gave lavish Oscar night parties.

@@frankpaya690 David did not have any children of his own.

I just purchased the 2nd book he wrote on Amazon. Can't wait to start reading it. I chose that one, as it was later in David's career and passing. I believe his first wife has a book on Amazon as well....

Sure does bring back memories, those wide lapels and ties and bell-bottoms, are so 70s.

His shoes and socks were matching too....

Don't blame Don Rickles for Howard Stern.

Really!

not tonight he was not he sucked

Don’t blame rickles for smash mouth

...wanna let you know i was her room service waiter at Pebble Beach Resorts in the early '80s and she was as nice and sweet as you'd ever hope her to be...and even more beautiful in person

David on seemed drunk

Pfft look at Rickles ! He's 31 !!!

@@Wildstar40 umm no?? He's like 50 in this clip. How the fuck did you arrive at 31?

Still a handsome man.

@@Wildstar40 Don wouldn't have been able to serve in WWII if he was 31, he would've been born in 1945.

James Henderson Tyson came out of retirement at 54

Someone said Carson setup a bar his the green room, complete with bar tender, so it's his own fault that many of his nervous guests got smashed while they waited to come on the show. The same thing happens at many airports. That's why some people get on planes smashed.

torgman David Jansen had a cocain addiction unfortunately

ProneMan OldButYoung Maybe true but the way he was acting is not the way someone acts and they’re on cocaine it’s more like he had a few drinks.

@@pronemanoldbutyoung5548 it probably gave him confidence. I remember feeling very confident after getting a tooth out at the dentist.!

Not true. David didn’t do drugs.

I agree 100%!

Yup!

Came from no talent and knowing it!! 😅🤣😂

Could also come from stress as well.

@@crivket1233 Seems to describe you.

Yeah people are more phony now and yes narcissistic .

Late night talk shows have turned into Trump bashing

@@danielknepper6884 As well they should!

Me too, ever since I was a little kid. I got to shake his hand in Vegas after a show back in the 90s

Now she's been battling cancer for the past few years ... you can see videos about that

D4RTH KNIGHT Johnny was the best host.xx

Johnny, yes... I completely agree, but not that other guy, could never stand him.

He laughed all the time.

He was always sauced. That was the problem.

He was one of the hardest working actors in the business & well respected by his colleagues & crew.

Those shows would offer them drinks, in their dressing room, to settle their nerves, sometimes the celebs could over do it.

@@clugul he was also a raging alcoholic whose early heart disease death was caused by acute alcoholism. Hard work didn't save him from that.

@@TheTerryE David smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day. He died of a massive heart attack. The autopsy report is public record: He had a “90% blockage of one artery and an 85% blockage of another. His liver had moderate fatty metamorphosis but no evidence of cirrhosis. There were physical signs in his mouth and lungs of damage from smoking. There were no drugs detected in his body and no cancer.”