Throughout The Fugitive, Kimble drifts from town to town, finding work and trying to keep to himself. It isn’t safe for Richard Kimble to be around people, and yet he is always helping them. Richard Kimble is ethical – even when it’s inconvenient.Yet another role model trait: Richard Kimble doesn’t waste his talents.Everybody’s life is worthwhile in The Fugitive – Richard Kimble doesn't care about your status.It isn’t safe for Richard Kimble to be around people, and yet he is always helping them.So assuming you feel that his eluding the police was ethical, in this case, I think you’ll agree with these six reasons Richard Kimble should be everybody’s role model. Once fate intervened, causing a train he was on to crash, you can hardly blame him for escaping and staying on the run and searching for the one-armed man in order to prove his innocence. He would go straight to Death Row – for a crime he didn’t commit. If Kimble turned himself into the police, he was essentially committing suicide. And you would have gotten along just fine with Lieutenant Philip Gerard.īut from Kimble’s reasoning, he had been tried in a court of law, and a jury found him guilty, despite his protestations that a one-armed man ran from his house moments before he found his wife at home, murdered. He should have turned himself in." - then, well, there’s no reason for you to continue reading this. Now, of course, if you’re familiar with the series, and you're thinking to yourself – "OK, he’s an outstanding guy, but Richard Kimble did escape from the police and spent four seasons of The Fugitive eluding capture from the police. Kimble smoked as well, and so while he may be TV's best role model, he wasn't perfect. Janssen died of a heart attack in 1980, at the age of 49, probably due to a lifetime of smoking.
He also was the narrator in a personal favorite of mine, the late 1970s miniseries, Centennial.
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Aside from The Fugitive, he's well known for work like Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957-1960, the series where Mary Tyler Moore got her start), and Harry O (1974-1976), an excellent short-lived detective series. Janssen starred in movies like The Green Berets (1968), but his real success was in TV. David Janssen was born David Harold Meyer in Naponee, Nebraska, in 1931 Janssen was his stepfather's last name.
There was no way this guy murdered his wife. The narrator in the opening credits of The Fugitive made that clear every week, and after watching Kimble run around from episode to episode, you would have known anyway.
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Yes, TV has plenty of excellent roles models to choose from, and, yeah, Kimble was an escaped prisoner, convicted of murder, on the run from the police and especially the dogged Lieutenant Philip Gerrard.īut if you want a role model and somebody to emulate in order to better yourself, Kimble’s your guy. Obsessive Viewer Presents: Tower Junkies - Our spinoff podcast dedicated to Stephen King’s magnum opus, The Dark Tower and related topics.If you’re looking for a role model, TV’s very best was Richard Kimble, the main character on the 1960s drama, The Fugitive.
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