Man on a String

Credits include: Dirty Harry, The Amityville Horror, Play Misty for Me, Written on the Wind and 7 Men from Now

David Janssen was born to be a TV star. The Janssen family settled in Hollywood when he was a teenager and he attended Fairfax High School, where he developed an interest in acting. His film debut was a bit part in It's a Pleasure (1945), and at the age of 18 signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox. However, the studio dropped him after allegedly becoming disenchanted with his odd hairline and big prominent ears. Janssen had better luck at Universal, where he signed on in the early 1950s and bec

Born into a wealthy family - his father was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad - but he had no desire to go into the family business. He always wanted to be an actor, and to that end got a job managing a radio station. From there he went into vaudeville, then into stage work in both musicals and dramas, gaining a reputation as a solid and reliable stage actor.? A versatile actor, he could play anything from a priest to a senator to a hotel clerk to a gunfighter to a cranky, cantankerous ol

Credits include: Bad Day at Black Rock, The Enemy Below, Shockproof, The Last Frontier and Miss Sadie Thompson

Credits include: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Man in the Glass Booth, Butterfly, Period of Adjustment and Dirty Dingus Magee

Credits include: Babes in Toyland, Oranges and Lemons, Bacon Grabbers, The Soilers and A Man About Town

Credits include: Soylent Green, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Limelight, The Night of the Iguana and Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill

Credits include: Back Fire, Man on a String, Barney and the Cave Rescue, Sego Lilies and Measure of a Man

Credits include: The After Hours, The Betrayed, Man on a String, Tennessee Champ and The Lady with the Blue Silk Umbrella

Credits include: The Innocent, I Want to Be Alone, Man on a String and The Giant Killer

Credits include: Mirror, Mirror, Meeting at Devil's Fork and Man on a String

Credits include: The Old Man Who Cried Wolf and Man on a String