MICHAEL LANDON - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 319870

MICHAEL LANDON
The actor signs with, "best wishes," on this color publicity photo
Inscribed photograph signed: "To/Dee-Dee-/Caldwell-/Best wishes-/Michael/Landon". Color, 8x10. Actor, producer, director and writer Michael Landon (1936-1991) is the only actor to have three consecutive shows on television that ran for five years or more: Bonanza (1959-1973, on which he starred as Joseph "Little Joe" Cartwright), Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983, as Charles Philip "Pa" Ingalls) and Highway to Heaven (1984-1989, as Jonathan Smith). Charles Ingalls, Landon's character on Little House on the Prairie, was ranked #4 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" (June 20, 2004 issue). In early 1991, after 35 years of working on NBC, Landon moved to CBS to star in the pilot of a two-hour movie, Us, in which he played a man released from a long prison term after being cleared of a murder for which he was wrongfully convicted. This was going to be another one of Landon's shows but, in April 1991, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Landon was 54 when he died on July 1, 1991. One of television's most creative stars on both sides of the camera, Landon was never nominated for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Award. However, in 1994, he was inducted posthumously into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame. Label affixed to verso. Fine condition.