David Janssen was born David Harold Meyer 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 ...

Although steadily employed throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, David Janssen saw his status as an actor and a star rise significantly in 1963 when he made his debut in the television series The ...