I was very impressed by the way Don Rickles tried to help out David Janssen. Carson wasn't doing such a great job of easing David's nerves so that is why Rickles stepped in to help David out. He'd ask him a question and then bring the conversation back to himself to give David some breathing room. All of the men on that stage were class acts and they are all greatly missed.
@@ryanhodges7101 although Johnny Carson actually wasn't as nice as I thought he was . There's a wonderful biography about him here on CZcams 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 .
Great clip!!! Although David Janssen definitely appeared sauced here, he still showed such a funny side to his personality here. Throw in the sweet Olivia Newton-John, this was an amazing piece of late night TV!!! Rest In Peace David, Olivia, Don, Ed and Johnny !!!!
David Janssen was a fine actor, and i fondly remember watching Harry O with my Mum, during my childhood!! Had David Janssen's life not been so "tragically cut short" then i'm pretty sure that he would achieved "even more" career wise"!!
I had the great pleasure of meeting David Janssen in NYC while he was filming a movie called “Generations “ I was playing hookie and noticed the film crew. So I and a great friend named Ronnie went to see all the commotion. The limo pulled up and David got out. Now back then and now I was a big fan of his. I watched the Fugitive religiously. So during a break we went over to him and asked him for his autograph. He looked at me and said “sure kid just let me blow my nose first” he wrote his name on a piece of school paper. I had that autograph for years in my wallet. He was a fantastic actor and very handsome man. I see these post about him being rude and a drunk. He may have been all that, but I remember the man who brought a lot of pleasure to many fans.
@@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
These gentlemen... can't be replicated, or imitated. It was a indoctrination to have witness these level of thespians. I am truly humbled, and thankful for the talents they displayed. 🌹✌️
Hard to believe he was only 44 here. He smoked 4 packs a day and downed a quart of vodka a day. The Coroner said he had the body of a man in his 80's when he died 4 years after appearing on this show. He had advanced liver, heart, lung, and throat damage.
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 💖💖
@@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 ...
It was the norm back in the day that celebrities would have a few belts before appearing on a talk show or game show. David Janssen was a great Actor and very Handsome to boot. We lost David Janssen way too soon. It's nice that we can enjoy the re runs of David Janssen's body of work. RIP David Janssen.
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.
While he may have had a drink or 6 before walking out onto that stage, I suspect that he was one of those celebrities that was uncomfortable in front of a live audience.
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.
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).
@@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 .
Loved David Janssen in Harry O, and currently watching a re-run of The Fugitive here in the UK, Don Rickles was in Kelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood i've never laughed so much at a war movie will always watch when it's on
Mr. Janssen was so handsome, a good actor..I always watched the Fugitive. It is sad he died so young. I wish someone could have helped him. Olivia looks so pretty and Don was always funny....he was in Japan..when..in the war.
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.
There are countless comments about David being drunk. Can anyone imagine the level of stress that being on the most watched tv program in the country brought with it? Please don’t judge him too harshly.
Was there ever a performer more adorable than Olivia Newton John? I used to think Bette Davis had the most strikingly beautiful eyes but no longer after watching Olivia on this show.
8:39 hahaha David leaning on the side of the couch lol he’s drunk, and Rickles man he’s forever the funniest! Carson the King or late night! And Ed the best side kick ever!!!
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.
I think David had the better part of that quart of vodka that he used to drink every day. It's amazing to me how much he sounds like Dean Martin in this interview.
Jansen had a few scotches in the green room, Rickles had none. Why didn’t he have a drink? Even a sip of alcohol would have knocked his timing off a millimeter, and for Rickles, timing was everything
I grew up near L.A. One day, in 1966, we came to a road block somewhere between Saugus and Newhall, because they were filming some show on the hi way. When we stopped, my Mom looked out my window when she suddenly went pale and started stammering something at me. I looked out the window and David Janssen was standing 3 feet away. My Mom had a pen and a paper and handed it to me. I asked him for his autograph and he smiled real big, walked over and signed it. He chatted with us while we waited, until someone called for him. He said goodbye and left. He was a very nice guy. Souther California was awesome back then. You could run into a movie set just about anywhere. We came across a Marlon Brando movie being filmed out on 138 near Pearblossom but there was no getting close to Brando!
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 .
David was too polite to upstage or excluded everyone there. You dont see this today everyone today is desperately afraid of being left out or upstaged. The kind ones die young too young.
@@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 liked David Jansen, and really liked Don Rickles, who was THE quickest and funniest insult comics, next to Joan Rivers. Mr Jansen appears to be a bit inebriated. I hear that he was well revered and loved by the acting community. What a legacy. He looked so much older than the young 48 years old that he was when he died.
@@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.
@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
Always reminded me of Clark gable.. Smoking and drinking heavily too... End result... Well you know what that is. Never the less I liked him very much loved him in the fugitive and Harry o.
Janssen was so great in his hour long dramas... THE FUGITIVE... HARRY O... and his last, someone tell me.. anyway, James Garner said hour-long series...very long strenuous days (and nights) liquor and cigarettes took him away.. He was great!!@
Theres two excellent books i just purched from amazon called david janssen our conversations both books covers conversations by his friend michael phelps first book is from 1965 to 1972 2nd is from 1972 to 1980 excellent reading i brought it on kiddle for $ 3 each if your a fan of david janssen its excellent reading covers his divorce and many other topics very insightful reading he was a great guy mentions how a woman with six kids lost her home to a house fire she had no insurence david read about it in the paper and donated her a new home and new belongings anonymously
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 ?
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....
I remember when I was 15 yrs old and remember sneaking to put my tv on in my room and watching the last 2 episodes of fugitive everyone was talking about it an I had to watch it my parents watched downstairs an I was upstairs sneaking to watch it
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.
Mr D Jannsen was a great actor, But Oliver Newton John Was Looking Her Best Ever ! That's A Pure Femine Woman I Have Ever Seen, And She Still Is A Beautiful Lady, And Just To Get A Nod From Her Would Melt My Heart !
...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
My Mother Loved David Jansson!! As I grew UP, I didn't get it but Now I Watch every Old re-run of The Fugitive' !!! I Love him too, he was a Great Actor and SO SAD he died so Young!!! Cigerettes will KILL YA, EVERYTIME!!! 😥
Even a little bombed these guys were classy & entertaining. Watch old Carson shows & Merv Griffin & Dick Cavett shows and see how much more entertaining and interesting they were. People not constantly pushing an agenda or hawking some film. Just people chatting and laughing. And notice how no one bragged about Military Service. Ed McMan seemed almost embarrassed to admit he was a Colonel in the USMC. Different times.
No doubt about it, Janssen was smashed on this show. I saw him film a scene for a made for tv movie in a Studio City alley back in the 70s and he was drunk as a skunk. He was cussing out everybody on the set then walked back to his motor home (dressing room) and commenced to pour himself a water tumbler of Johnny Walker Red scotch in full view of everybody through the window of the motor home. Then, he jumped out of the motor home and walked over to the fence that separated the crowd (which weren't many) and started cussing out the production people to us about how incompetent they were. Yaphet Koto was in the scene playing the taxi driver and all he could do was give Janssen angry stares. Yes sir, a real eye opener at my young age.
+Peter K Thanks for this insight, I guess Mr. Janssen was angry that he wasn't doing films with high production values and after a having been apart of a highly rated, well written, well directed television series "The Fugitive" just three years before and now he was regulated to doing movies of the week, made for television films with very low production values, I'm sure for a lot of performers then and now fame is a roller coaster
I think he was usually drunk which hastened his untimely death. He did a tv movie around this time where he brilliantly played an alcoholic. It was probably his best performance ever but sadly, he probably wasn't acting much.
His best part in my opinion was Harry O, I've rarely seen a better cast TV leading role. By the time of this interview though, sadly he must've known the show was not coming back for a third season. It must've upset him greatly, knowing here's a gem of a character on a show with very good ratings and the idiots still canceled it.
@@edeck889 Nope. He wasn't that kind of guy. His friend, Michael Phelps, said he didn't have an big ego and never chased awards. He drank, but when he died there was no cirrhosis of his liver. And he'd had a thorough physical for studio insurance for the next part he was playing and passed it 5 days before he died. There were rumours about his second wife at the time of his death. He'd said about a month before his death that he was going to divorce her and she showed up at the house uninvited that day, got rid of the housekeeper/cook and said she was going to make him a special meal.
@@clearday9525 oh no... please tell us where you heard this story about the wife coming over and making the cook and other domestics leave the place so she could make him that so-called special meal . Wow , what a creepy thought ... have to wonder if it's true... and if it is ... oh my God .
David Janssen died way too soon. I'm sure we would have seen a lot of him in the 80's and 90's had he lived longer. I think he was considered for Blake Carrington in the early development of Dynasty before he died.
@@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.”
How could you leave Olivia out of the tittle? The first time I heard her was on a clock radio alarm. I remember being half asleep with her singing, and I was in luv, before I knew who she was, or even what she looked like...
I was very impressed by the way Don Rickles tried to help out David Janssen. Carson wasn't doing such a great job of easing David's nerves so that is why Rickles stepped in to help David out. He'd ask him a question and then bring the conversation back to himself to give David some breathing room. All of the men on that stage were class acts and they are all greatly missed.
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 CZcams 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
Janssen was loaded, I love it!
Great clip!!! Although David Janssen definitely appeared sauced here, he still showed such a funny side to his personality here. Throw in the sweet Olivia Newton-John, this was an amazing piece of late night TV!!! Rest In Peace David, Olivia, Don, Ed and Johnny !!!!
David Janssen was a fine actor, and i fondly remember watching Harry O with my Mum, during my childhood!! Had David Janssen's life not been so "tragically cut short" then i'm pretty sure that he would achieved "even more" career wise"!!
Loved David Janssen ❤ Terrific actor and individual!
Love the Fugitive! David Jannsen was the perfect actor for this series, RIP ❤but not forgotten!
Rest in powerful peace 🙏
David Janssen
27 March 1931 ~
13 February 1980⚘
Bell bottoms as David walked out...🥶as heck
Hard to believe David Janssen is gone 40 yrs now. Buried a few minutes away from where i live in Culver city.
At the end, Jansen is babbling about Newton's autograph but Rickles zings unmercifully with "Thats a great story" & I'm on the floor with laughter.
All four of those Hollywood stars served this great country 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
And all of them now are gone.
@@frankpaya690Only Doc is left….
I had forgotten how utterly enchanting Olivia Newton John was at that point in her life.
I had the great pleasure of meeting David Janssen in NYC while he was filming a movie called “Generations “ I was playing hookie and noticed the film crew. So I and a great friend named Ronnie went to see all the commotion. The limo pulled up and David got out. Now back then and now I was a big fan of his. I watched the Fugitive religiously. So during a break we went over to him and asked him for his autograph. He looked at me and said “sure kid just let me blow my nose first” he wrote his name on a piece of school paper. I had that autograph for years in my wallet. He was a fantastic actor and very handsome man. I see these post about him being rude and a drunk. He may have been all that, but I remember the man who brought a lot of pleasure to many fans.
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
These gentlemen... can't be replicated, or imitated. It was a indoctrination to have witness these level of thespians. I am truly humbled, and thankful for the talents they displayed. 🌹✌️
Hard to believe he was only 44 here. He smoked 4 packs a day and downed a quart of vodka a day. The Coroner said he had the body of a man in his 80's when he died 4 years after appearing on this show. He had advanced liver, heart, lung, and throat damage.
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!!
He died so young. He was very talented. And a handsome, rugged man. Much like Steve McQueen, who unfortunately died in 1980 as well....
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. 🤔
A master of feeling the room. RIP Don i cant wait to see you.
It was the norm back in the day that celebrities would have a few belts before appearing on a talk show or game show.
David Janssen was a great Actor and very Handsome to boot. We lost David Janssen way too soon. It's nice that we can enjoy the re runs of David Janssen's body of work.
RIP David Janssen.
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.
Wow. David's completely sauced here. " Olivia John Newton", indeed! Johnny and Don realize it and try to make the best of the situation.
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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.
While he may have had a drink or 6 before walking out onto that stage, I suspect that he was one of those celebrities that was uncomfortable in front of a live audience.
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.
Someone on here mentioned that Rod Stewart was a pallbearer at David Jansen’s funeral in 1980. Johnny Carson was also a pallbearer.
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
Loved David Janssen in Harry O, and currently watching a re-run of The Fugitive here in the UK, Don Rickles was in Kelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood i've never laughed so much at a war movie will always watch when it's on
He seemed drunk
Mr. Janssen was so handsome, a good actor..I always watched the Fugitive. It is sad he died so young. I wish someone could have helped him.
Olivia looks so pretty and Don was always funny....he was in Japan..when..in the war.
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.
There are countless comments about David being drunk. Can anyone imagine the level of stress that being on the most watched tv program in the country brought with it? Please don’t judge him too harshly.
RIP everyone in this clip.
Was there ever a performer more adorable than Olivia Newton John? I used to think Bette Davis had the most strikingly beautiful eyes but no longer after watching Olivia on this show.
8:39 hahaha David leaning on the side of the couch lol he’s drunk, and Rickles man he’s forever the funniest! Carson the King or late night! And Ed the best side kick ever!!!
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
One of the best nights on Johnny's show..And there were so many..
THIS is an AMAZING CLIP, LOTS OF TALENT HERE!!!!!!
Mr. Janssen is only 'slightly smashed! Lol!..... Great old TV entertainment here. Love it!
I think David had the better part of that quart of vodka that he used to drink every day. It's amazing to me how much he sounds like Dean Martin in this interview.
Jansen had a few scotches in the green room, Rickles had none. Why didn’t he have a drink? Even a sip of alcohol would have knocked his timing off a millimeter, and for Rickles, timing was everything
BULLS**T!
One my favorite actor great
David was the finest actor of his generation you will never blend in if you were born to stand out sadly missed always loved
Gawd, I wouldnt go that far!
lmao, god I miss those days.
I grew up near L.A. One day, in 1966, we came to a road block somewhere between Saugus and Newhall, because they were filming some show on the hi way. When we stopped, my Mom looked out my window when she suddenly went pale and started stammering something at me. I looked out the window and David Janssen was standing 3 feet away. My Mom had a pen and a paper and handed it to me. I asked him for his autograph and he smiled real big, walked over and signed it. He chatted with us while we waited, until someone called for him. He said goodbye and left. He was a very nice guy. Souther California was awesome back then. You could run into a movie set just about anywhere. We came across a Marlon Brando movie being filmed out on 138 near Pearblossom but there was no getting close to Brando!
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 .
"Its very difficult to be on a show with two great wits" lol
Two great wits, and two great tits.
Johnny's face is priceless!
David was too polite to upstage or excluded everyone there. You dont see this today everyone today is desperately afraid of being left out or upstaged. The kind ones die young too young.
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 liked David Jansen, and really liked Don Rickles, who was THE quickest and funniest insult comics, next to Joan Rivers. Mr Jansen appears to be a bit inebriated. I hear that he was well revered and loved by the acting community. What a legacy. He looked so much older than the young 48 years old that he was when he died.
That nervous facial twitch David Jansen has😆
Amazing how masculine these men spoke back then. Holy mother of Christ and that ladys sweet voice.
gosh amazing actor. Apparently had some addictions, which no one knew how to help him with back then
Poor David, just 4 years after this he died of 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....
David Janssen was a great actor. Loved the Fugitive. It's a shame how he poorly he took care of himself.
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?
Love David Janssen
Always reminded me of Clark gable.. Smoking and drinking heavily too... End result... Well you know what that is. Never the less I liked him very much loved him in the fugitive and Harry o.
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
SIEMPRE ME CAYO BIEN DAVID JANSSEN😊👍
Love Janssen. Yea, it's obvious he's had a few. Different time.
Janssen was so great in his hour long dramas... THE FUGITIVE... HARRY O... and his last, someone tell me.. anyway, James Garner said hour-long series...very long strenuous days (and nights) liquor and cigarettes took him away.. He was great!!@
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!
rickles smash mouth style was way ahead of its time. no rickles, no stern.
Don't blame Don Rickles for Howard Stern.
Really!
not tonight he was not he sucked
Don’t blame rickles for smash mouth
I saw David Jansen at L.A. Airport in 1977 after returning from Okinawa. Wanted to shake his hand but decided not to bother him.
Always though David Janssen was a great actor.
Guessing the runners on the show had to restock the Green Room bar completely after Davids appearance.
Theres two excellent books i just purched from amazon
called david janssen our conversations both books covers conversations by his friend michael phelps first book is from 1965 to 1972 2nd is from 1972 to 1980 excellent reading i brought it on kiddle for $ 3 each if your a fan of david janssen its excellent reading covers his divorce and many other topics very insightful reading he was a great guy mentions how a woman with six kids lost her home to a house fire she had no insurence david read about it in the paper and donated her a new home and new belongings anonymously
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....
Class personified! Just check out the understated and yet, timeless tank style (a la Cartier) watch on his manly wrist.
Sure does bring back memories, those wide lapels and ties and bell-bottoms, are so 70s.
His shoes and socks were matching too....
Janssen looks older than 44 in this clip.
Remember when tv was really good?
I remember when I was 15 yrs old and remember sneaking to put my tv on in my room and watching the last 2 episodes of fugitive everyone was talking about it an I had to watch it my parents watched downstairs an I was upstairs sneaking to watch it
People knew how to laugh, great times
I think David's drinking came from being extremely shy. xx
I agree 100%!
Yup!
Came from no talent and knowing it!! 😅🤣😂
Could also come from stress as well.
@@crivket1233
Seems to describe you.
Don looks like he's the only sober one there.
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.
R.I.P. fellas 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
" They're running your shows in Zambizi to calm the natives" 🤣
Janssen was hilarious in this episode. “Tokyo…Japan.” Lol
Olivia Newton John is such a charming winner here, and still is.
Wow, Janssen is buzzed big time.
Oliva Newton John was sooooo fine in her day! I am 54 now and remember her very well !!
Mr D Jannsen was a great actor, But Oliver Newton John Was Looking Her Best Ever ! That's A Pure Femine Woman I Have Ever Seen, And She Still Is A Beautiful Lady, And Just To Get A Nod From Her Would Melt My Heart !
...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
HARRY O WAS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!!!
The ravages of cigarettes and booze were taking his toll in David. It's hard to believe that he is only 44 in this Carson appearance.
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
My Mother Loved David Jansson!! As I grew UP, I didn't get it but Now I Watch every Old re-run of The Fugitive' !!! I Love him too, he was a Great Actor and SO SAD he died so Young!!! Cigerettes will KILL YA, EVERYTIME!!! 😥
What was the feeling that you got in Japan?.....Ah very ah Japanese. LOL!
4:11 Don realy loved Ed
13 Feb 1980 is still hard to re-live Mr. Janssen! Requiescat in Pace +
Please, please upload all episodes of this series.
Thanks a lot,Sir
Love Olivia. These dudes are stepping all over her spot here. She took it in stride. Makes me love her more.
David Janssen as we have NEVER seen him, and hope we'll never see him like this again
As a kid, seeing drunken adults on TV used to frighten me. Sad to see Dr. Kimble this hammered.
He's lit up like a Christmas 🎄
Even a little bombed these guys were classy & entertaining. Watch old Carson shows & Merv Griffin & Dick Cavett shows and see how much more entertaining and interesting they were. People not constantly pushing an agenda or hawking some film. Just people chatting and laughing. And notice how no one bragged about Military Service. Ed McMan seemed almost embarrassed to admit he was a Colonel in the USMC. Different times.
Yeah people are more phony now and yes narcissistic .
Late night talk shows have turned into Trump bashing
@@danielknepper6884
As well they should!
DEBEN TRADUCIR STA BELLA ENTREVISTA Y LOS COMENTARIOOOS😢😢😢GRACIAS
Three guys who are missed.
He died way too young 🙏❤️
Don’t think the Americans ever quite mastered the chat show.
❤ Don … from Texas 12:22 PM
Me gustó mucho la serie 😊
Oh when I compare today's talk shows to this it's embarrassing. We need to clone Don and Johnny to replace today's show hosts and guests.
D4RTH KNIGHT Johnny was the best host.xx
Johnny, yes... I completely agree, but not that other guy, could never stand him.
Well, , the ending was a bit awkward LOL!
No doubt about it, Janssen was smashed on this show. I saw him film a scene for a made for tv movie in a Studio City alley back in the 70s and he was drunk as a skunk. He was cussing out everybody on the set then walked back to his motor home (dressing room) and commenced to pour himself a water tumbler of Johnny Walker Red scotch in full view of everybody through the window of the motor home. Then, he jumped out of the motor home and walked over to the fence that separated the crowd (which weren't many) and started cussing out the production people to us about how incompetent they were. Yaphet Koto was in the scene playing the taxi driver and all he could do was give Janssen angry stares. Yes sir, a real eye opener at my young age.
+Peter K Thanks for this insight, I guess Mr. Janssen was angry that he wasn't doing films with high production values and after a having been apart of a highly rated, well written, well directed television series "The Fugitive" just three years before and now he was regulated to doing movies of the week, made for television films with very low production values, I'm sure for a lot of performers then and now fame is a roller coaster
I think he was usually drunk which hastened his untimely death. He did a tv movie around this time where he brilliantly played an alcoholic. It was probably his best performance ever but sadly, he probably wasn't acting much.
His best part in my opinion was Harry O, I've rarely seen a better cast TV leading role. By the time of this interview though, sadly he must've known the show was not coming back for a third season. It must've upset him greatly, knowing here's a gem of a character on a show with very good ratings and the idiots still canceled it.
@@edeck889 Nope. He wasn't that kind of guy. His friend, Michael Phelps, said he didn't have an big ego and never chased awards. He drank, but when he died there was no cirrhosis of his liver. And he'd had a thorough physical for studio insurance for the next part he was playing and passed it 5 days before he died. There were rumours about his second wife at the time of his death. He'd said about a month before his death that he was going to divorce her and she showed up at the house uninvited that day, got rid of the housekeeper/cook and said she was going to make him a special meal.
@@clearday9525 oh no... please tell us where you heard this story about the wife coming over and making the cook and other domestics leave the place so she could make him that so-called special meal .
Wow , what a creepy thought ... have to wonder if it's true... and if it is ... oh my God .
David's voice sounds like Dean Martin's.
David Janssen died way too soon. I'm sure we would have seen a lot of him in the 80's and 90's had he lived longer. I think he was considered for Blake Carrington in the early development of Dynasty before he died.
David janssen the greatest
Damn man. 3:52 David Janssen turned on Don. Then at 9:07 Don payed him back. Just look. Don was really the genius.
when tv was great!!
Janssen had a drink or two methinks
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.”
Someone actually made Don laugh!!
He laughed all the time.
He s hammered lol
Sure miss Johnny Carson nightly affair growing up what can I say bout Don such funny man one of Best
How could you leave Olivia out of the tittle? The first time I heard her was on a clock radio alarm. I remember being half asleep with her singing, and I was in luv, before I knew who she was, or even what she looked like...
Now she's been battling cancer for the past few years ... you can see videos about that
Handsome and sexy and funny