Gary Saderup Celebrity Chacoals
Size: 20"W x 24"H
Description:
Name: Michael Landon
D.O.B: 31 October 1936
Died: 1 July 1991
Your favourite stars of yesterday and today dramatically captured with charcoal
on canvas-textured background.
About: Michael Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz, on October 31, 1936, in
Forest Hills, Queens, New York. In 1941, he and his family moved to
Collingswood, New Jersey.
When Eugene was in high school he participated - and did very well - in track
and field, especially javelin throwing, and his athletic skills earned him a
scholarship to UCLA. However, an accident injured his arm, ending his athletic
career - and his term at UCLA - and he worked a number of odd jobs and small
roles to make ends meet, and decided that acting was for him. However, he
thought that his real name was not a suitable one for an aspiring actor, and so
"Michael Landon" was born.
Two of his first big roles were as Tony Rivers in I Was a Teenage Werewolf
(1957) and as Tom Dooley in the western The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959). That
same year he was approached by producer David Dortort to star in a pilot called
"The Restless Gun", which was renamed when the series was picked up to "Bonanza"
(1959). Landon played Little Joe Cartwright, the youngest of the three
Cartwright brothers, a cocky and somewhat rebellious youth nevertheless had a
way with the ladies. For 14 years Landon became the heart and soul of the show,
endearing himself to both younger and older viewers, and he became a household
name during the 1960s and 1970s.
