David Janssen

David Janssen

March 27, 1931 · 95 years old

David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer; March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an American actor. He was born in Naponee, Nebraska, to Berniece Mae (Graf) and Harold Edward Meyer, a banker. He was of German, and some Swiss-German and Ulster-Scots, descent. David took the surname of his stepfather,…

Known For

21 titles
1
The Green Berets

The Green Berets

1968 · 2h 22m · Movie

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

5.6
2
To Hell and Back

To Hell and Back

1955 · 1h 46m · Movie

The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.

7.1
3
Marooned

Marooned

1969 · 2h 14m · Movie

Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?

5.9
4
The Fugitive

The Fugitive

1963 · 51m · TV Show

A doctor, wrongly convicted for a murder he didn't commit, escapes custody and must stay ahead of the police to find the real killer.

8.1
5
Two-Minute Warning

Two-Minute Warning

1976 · 1h 55m · Movie

A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.

6.2
6
The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968 · 2h 42m · Movie

After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War.

7.0
7
Moon of the Wolf

Moon of the Wolf

1972 · 1h 15m · Movie

After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.

5.1
8
Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity

1960 · 2h 11m · Movie

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

6.9
9
Cult of the Cobra

Cult of the Cobra

1955 · 1h 22m · Movie

American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.

5.8
10
S.O.S. Titanic

S.O.S. Titanic

1980 · 3h 14m · Movie

On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

6.2
11
Warning Shot

Warning Shot

1967 · 1h 40m · Movie

During a stakeout, an L.A. cop kills a doctor who presumably pulled a gun but the coroner's inquest finds no gun, forcing the cop to look for it to clear his name.

6.7
12
Once Is Not Enough

Once Is Not Enough

1975 · 2h 1m · Movie

A young woman goes home to New York after a long stay in Europe. Her former schoolmate introduces her to the decadence of New York and she ultimately falls in love with an older man who's a stand-in for her father, before tragedy ...

4.6
13
Francis in the Navy

Francis in the Navy

1955 · 1h 20m · Movie

A story following Lieutenant Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his dream of being in the Navy.

5.7
14
Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

1956 · 1h 36m · Movie

In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead.

6.1
15
The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind

1956 · 1h 43m · Movie

Privileged college student Andy Shaeffer is a mama's boy who flunks out of school and is drafted by the army where he becomes a real man, to the astonishment of everyone.

5.2
16
Francis Goes to West Point

Francis Goes to West Point

1952 · 1h 21m · Movie

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

6.2
17
Macho Callahan

Macho Callahan

1971 · 1h 39m · Movie

Macho Callahan breaks out of a Confederate military prison, intent on revenge against the man who conscripted him into the army. Before he gets started, he kills another man in a petty dispute and is in turn pursued by the vengefu...

5.5
18
Francis in the Haunted House

Francis in the Haunted House

1956 · 1h 20m · Movie

Francis the Talking Mule witnesses a murder. He takes a bumbling reporter named David Prescott under his wing and the two of them set out to solve the crime.

5.6
19
Yankee Buccaneer

Yankee Buccaneer

1952 · 1h 26m · Movie

Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.

5.9
20
The Square Jungle

The Square Jungle

1955 · 1h 26m · Movie

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. His cop friend McBride finances him; ex-con Bernie Browne trains him. Three years later...

6.5
21
Man-Trap

Man-Trap

1961 · 1h 33m · Movie

Two Korean War veterans re-unite to pull off a heist at a San Francisco airport but find themselves running for their lives.

6.0