Michael Landon
Also Known As: Eugene Maurice Orowitz, Mike Landon, Emo, Μάικλ Λάντον, مایکل لاندن
Biography: Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is 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 (1984–1989). Landon appeared on the cover of TV Guide 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: October 31, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 01, 1991
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Mitzi & 100 Guys
Overview: Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) and Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man), plus 28 celebrities as her "Million Dollar Chorus." Songs performed include: "I Got the Music in Me," "The Most Beautiful Guy in the World," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Overview: William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilarious collection of movie and TV bloopers.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Bing Crosby's Sun Valley Christmas Show
Overview: Bing's 1973 primetime Christmas special from NBC, with his family and guest stars.
Genres: Family Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-09
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God's Little Acre
Overview: In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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High School Confidential!
Overview: A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-30
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Overview: A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-19
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The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Overview: A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Creepy Classics
Overview: A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Sam's Son
Overview: Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Overview: Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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The Legend of Tom Dooley
Overview: Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making this tragic but honest mistake and sends a lawman after them.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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The Loneliest Runner
Overview: A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-20
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Maracaibo
Overview: A firefighter is sent to Venezuela to battle a blazing oil well but still finds time for romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-21
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Swing Out, Sweet Land
Overview: John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Where Pigeons Go to Die
Overview: Sentimental drama about an aging man's fond reminiscences of his relationship with his grandfather in 1950 midwest and the time they spent together raising racing pigeons.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-29
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Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Overview: Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in a variety of fields.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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The Special London Bridge Special
Overview: In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befuddled, sings with other celebrities, has adventures and gets kidnapped by “the villain”.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Love is Forever
Overview: Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he will go for his girlfriend.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-20
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Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas
Overview: Celebrate the holidays with two classic "Little House" specials, restored and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forget," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-04
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Us
Overview: When the police finds a necklace with some criminal, a detective remembers that it was missing evidence in a murderer case many years ago. So it turns out that Jeff Hayes, sentenced to life-long prison, was innocent. After 18 years in jail he's finally released - but has problems finding back into normal life. There's his father who believed him guilty and his ex-wife Ellen, who told their son Kerry and her new husband Paul Kramer his father had died.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Fight for the Title
Overview: An champion light-heavyweight boxer batters a young challenger so severely that the youthful pugilist suffers brain damage. Remorseful, the champion decides to rig a rematch in a small gym and allow the punch drunk fighter the chance to achieve his dream of winning a boxing "title".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-17
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A Bing Crosby Christmas
Overview: The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Christmas: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know» that was narrated by Gene Kelly and hosted by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. The program itself features clips from fifteen of Bing's classic television specials, concentrating on the period from the early 1960s onwards when he included Kathryn and their three children in the programs.
Genres: Music Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Rowan & Martin at the Movies
Overview: This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out that trumpet player Herb Alpert is the only other performer listed in the credits who is actually there in person. The others appear in clips, some from their own U.S. Savings Bonds spots, others from unidentified movie or TV appearances. Singer Barbara McNair is shown entertaining U.S. troops in Viet Nam, and the youth group The Young Americans also sings.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
Overview: Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Meanwhile children from school are preparing for their traditional climbing of the mountain.
Genres: Western Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-12
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These Wilder Years
Overview: A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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Bonanza: Ride the Wind
Overview: The Pony Express opens up an office in Virginia City. Despite being an investor, Ben objects to Joe signing up as a rider. Adding to his concerns, the Paiute Indians don't want the Pony Express riding across their land, and the manager's assistant, Curtis Wade, is itching to make a name for himself as an Indian fighter. The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series "Bonanza", entitled "Ride the Wind"
Genres: Western Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Little House: The Last Farewell
Overview: While Charles and Caroline are visiting Walnut Grove, the townspeople learn that a land development tycoon has acquired title to all the land in Hero Township. They are inspired by Laura to vent their anger at this injustice.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-06
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The Little House Years
Overview: Laura Ingalls reminisces about the Ingalls' journeys and struggles during a family Thanksgiving gathering.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-15
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The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Overview: Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s and 1980s, which roasted (or honored) such stars as Lucille Ball, Muhammad Ali and Johnny Carson; guests then recalled comedic moments they shared. Comedian Rich Little (a regular on the "Roast" specials) served as pitchman for the videos in a series of TV infomercials
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Little House on the Prairie
Overview: The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home.
Genres: Western Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-30
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A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Overview: Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 1979. (Muppet Wiki)
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Doug Henning's World of Magic
Overview: The December 1976 broadcast of Doug Henning’s World of Magic, hosted by Michael Landon
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-01
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Året var 1962
Overview: 1962 - the year when Anita Lindblom sings Sånt är livet on TV and the Swedish national ice hockey team wins gold in Colorado. Ursula Wirth and Ewy Rosqvist win Argentina's Gran Premio for standard cars in fierce competition. The Third World War almost breaks out - the Cuban Missile Crisis pits the superpowers the USA and the Soviet Union against each other. Leif Erik Nygårds is in New York and takes a picture of Marilyn Monroe, just a few weeks before she dies. Bobby Fischer plays chess in Stockholm and wins.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-01-08
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