Posts from Hawkswill in thread „David Janssen“

  • David Janssen

    For those of you who haven't seen the picture of me and David the day we first met, here it is......he had the beard from a movie he had just completed in Israel. Keith


  • David Janssen

    I met David and one of his best friend's, Jack Quigley, GM of Canyon CC, first golf course in Palm Springs, in Atlanta and showed them around the course they would be playing the next day in a charity pro-am tournament. When I moved to the Springs, I hooked up with Jack Quigley, still GM. We played golf fairly regularly either at his club or mine , Mission Hills, where I was pro. Also, he called me to give a lesson to him and David lots of times when David came to town. In my research for my Gibbons book, I found someone who was archiving David's life. I sent him a note that I might be able to fill in some times for him. I got back an email yesterday with questions about Jack, David with his beard in the picture I have of us, etc. He knew I had golf history with David, so he sent me these pictures. Note, the "David Janssen", the "Fugitive", and "O'hara" on the golf bag. Also, the Canyon CC name tag. I had one exactly like that on my bag, (with my name, of course, LOL), because I played so much over there. And when we finished playing, Jack would usually take us out for dinner and a few drinks often meeting up with friends. My golf bag and gear would be transported back to my club for me...hence the name tag!
    I will be sending the fellah some more info....hope he sends me more good pics. KEITH








  • David Janssen

    Hi Alamo, I asked them that very question, LOL. I wrote them as they said they were still looking for people who could "fill in some blanks", and I can. Also, the movie that David said was still in the can and was Kyber Rifles, was filmed in Israel and he had the beard for it, was finally released as Warhead in 1977. The full movie is here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAxZV7O0KXw


    I am watching it now, LOL........David has no beard yet, but it was filmed in 1972 right before he came to Atlanta, so..who knows what they did to the final cut. 48 years old he was when he died!


    You are right, Birds of Prey was a good movie.....he got killed in the chopper at the end, didn't he............? Haven't seen it since it came out!
    Well, he was my real "love" in The Fugitive, so taking him around the course, (the pro always had me do that, LOL), was like HEAVEN to me. Instead of taking two carts, we all rode in one....same the next day, and I was in the middle....happily squished between a handsome, very tall and thin Jack Quigley, and David, who was a little bit chubby, but not fat by any means.........oh, I thought WHO they heck I was, LOL.


    The pro, Davis Love, Jr, (his son, the III, was recently captain of the Ryder Cup Team for the US, always called on me for the celebrity show the course bit as I had won the City Jr. and City Women's Tournaments there and knew the course very well. Also, I was young, wore short skirts, and the guys liked it better than some man, LOL!


    So, back to the movie. KEITH

  • David Janssen

    Quote from alamo221

    Always liked David Janssen in everything. Guess all that hard drinking is what aged him badly-in his forties he looked a good 10 years older. Hated to see him go-


    Me, also Alamo....remember Dial M for Murder.....think that was it? O'hara US Treasury. Liked him in Green Berets, etc. Had NO IDEA he was in so many other movies.


    By the time I met him in about 1970 or so, he was already a pretty heavy drinker. Later, around the time I was in The Springs, he actually started looking better when I went to Canyon for our little golf lessons, dinners, etc. He got back with Dani Greco, and I met her at one of the celebrity golf cocktail parties.
    There is a site, don't know if they are still working on it, but it has a day to day, almost history of David........very interesting what I saw of it.
    http://davidjanssen.net/chronology.htm Just in case you want to see it.......need to go back and find what they called that movie he had the beard for in the early 70s think it was. Also, when he was in Atlanta for the Classic. KEITH

  • David Janssen

    LOL, well Alamo, I never heard of some of those! Did hear of a couple of jokey ones. However I heard from a man that was in 120?...that what it was? episodes that there was another ending filmed.....not the whole two episodes, but part of the last, if I remember correctly. There were many times he joked and teased, but this didn't seem like one of them. Maybe he was teasing. He will never be the one to tell us as he died......way too young. But, when you drink as much as David did......you don't stand a good chance for a long life. Damn, what a handsome, charismatic devil he was though! KEITH sorry, off topic here!


    Quote from alamo221

    I'm not sure if the link above refers to that ending, but as it said, it was only a rumor and never was filmed. Somehow hard to believe they'd go to all the trouble and expense to film two different endings at that time. This is from IMDB-not the most reliable source, but it discusses another ending:

    Some sources incorrectly state that an alternate ending for the series was planned in which Kimble would be seen removing a false arm, revealing him as the true killer. In the book "The Fugitive Recaptured" (and its later audio adaptation) Barry Morse reveals that this rumor may have started with a never-realized plan that he and David Janssen had for pulling a "false arm" gag at public appearances. Janssen also often joked that Kimble killed his wife because "she talked too much". Morse also said that he and Janssen conceived for fun an alternate epilogue to the series finale, in which Kimble awakens in bed with his wife Helen, and reveals to her that he "just had the most horrible nightmare". Janssen also gave an interview to TV Guide at the time of the finale in which he said that his idea for resolving the show was to have a final scene in which Kimble is seen on a beach reading a newspaper account of how the one-armed man has just been executed for the murder. Then, with his trademark half-grin, Kimble would stand up, detach his prosthetic arm and walk off into the surf. It's not known whether he was serious or just kidding.

  • David Janssen

    Had no idea Don Medford was so prolific. I loved a lot of his work. But, my favorite was The Fugitive as David Janssen was one of my heart throbs. When I was asked to take him and his friend around the Atlanta CC course before the Atlanta Classic Celebrity Pro-Am the next day,I was in seventh Heaven. The three of us road the course in one golf cart......I didn't mind a bit sitting in the middle, LOL. David had a beard as he had been in a movie.....Kyber Rifles or something that never came out of the can. I was already giving lessons then and David was having trouble with his swing...he had recently had to change over to a right hand swing because of his knee which he had hurt pole vaulting and playing basketball in high school....believe he was an All American. He still putted left handed though. Anyway, I straightened him out that day. The next day, I had work to do for the tournament and didn't get out to David and Jack's team until after they had completed a few holes. Jack said, "Thank the Lord, Keith is here", or something close to that. David had reverted to his old swing. I slithered through the crowd, under the ropes and got into the cart with them......in a couple of holes, David was hitting the ball well, and they ended up, I think, third place and each won a really cool Sony Trinitron TV.
    Didn't see them again until I moved to Palm Springs where Jack was GM of Canyon CC. Every time David came to town, Jack would call me for a lesson for them both...........fun times.........Jack would pay off with a fantastic lunch at his club and a night on the town, LOL!
    You know Medford or one of his associates filmed another ending for The Fugitive........guess how it ended? KEITH