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‘Little House on the Prairie’ star Melissa Gilbert says Michael Landon’s ‘brutal’ cancer ‘decimated him’
Fox news ^ | 10/16/2024 | Stephanie Nolasco

Posted on 10/20/2024 7:09:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Melissa Gilbert witnessed her TV dad, Michael Landon, fight a debilitating disease that ultimately took his life.

At age 54, the actor who played patriarch Charles Ingalls in "Little House on the Prairie" was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died three months after publicly announcing his diagnosis in 1991.

"It is really a brutal and pernicious disease," Gilbert told People magazine. "To me, it felt like a tornado. You have no warning. It’s just there and the survival rate is virtually nil."

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KEYWORDS: gilbert; landons; littlehouse; michaellandon; pancreaticcancer; prairie
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yeah the area they filmed LHOTP had a partial nuclear reactor MELTDOWN in 1959 that was never fully cleaned up. Just crazy that this probably killed Landon.


21 posted on 10/20/2024 8:12:34 PM PDT by montag813
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To: ChildOfThe60s

You’re right about the treatment being brutal. My brother was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and the treatment was horrible on him. He quit the treatment, and they kept him as comfortable as possible, and he was gone in 2 months. In home hospice care was wonderful.

May God bless your sister and all of you.


22 posted on 10/20/2024 8:14:03 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: peggybac

Best friend in 2010 went in for gallbladder surgery mid August. After surgery, they still had questions and found pancreatic cancer. Sept 1 st I got a call on my birthday from her husband…she had weeks to live. We drove 8 hours that weekend and saw her…she died the next Tuesday.


23 posted on 10/20/2024 8:14:27 PM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: Flaming Conservative

Nothing helps but pain relief when it’s terminal.


24 posted on 10/20/2024 8:15:48 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Flaming Conservative

My ex brother-in-law took that and died anyway.


25 posted on 10/20/2024 8:17:29 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: beaversmom

Oh my gosh! He was amazing on that show! I almost thought they were going to have a video of him from his hospice bed! He died just two months after that appearance? He was really funny! I LOLed at the sugar and cream remark! Boy have late night shows gone down hill! Thanks for sharing.


26 posted on 10/20/2024 8:20:23 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Me too. That one got me bad.


27 posted on 10/20/2024 8:26:58 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: beaversmom

Thanks. Kinda funny watching those oversized 90s clothes he was wearing.


28 posted on 10/20/2024 8:28:21 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: FrdmLvr

Only thing that PO’d me was at that time, Landon was pushing how great that coffee enemas were on almost every show and they were almost a cure for cancer. Then he died a couple of months latter. He wasn’t doing chemo. I just wish that he would have gave better advice to sufferers that would have helped them more.


29 posted on 10/20/2024 9:36:09 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It appears that early diagnosis is the key.
We had 2 relatives diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at about the same time in 2013.
The one diagnosed with stage 4 took all of the treatment possible, but died in 26 months.
The one diagnosed at stage 2 had all the treatment possible, which was extremely rough, but is still alive today.


30 posted on 10/20/2024 10:39:31 PM PDT by Blueway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It appears that early diagnosis is the key.
We had 2 relatives diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at about the same time in 2013.
The one diagnosed with stage 4 took all of the treatment possible, but died in 26 months.
The one diagnosed at stage 2 had all the treatment possible, which was extremely rough, but is still alive today.


31 posted on 10/20/2024 10:39:31 PM PDT by Blueway
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To: calljack
30+ years ago. What’s up?

Nothing against Michael Landon - he was a good actor (loved him in "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"), though his personal life was less than stellar (serial philanderer, etc.) - but I, too, ask: Why is this being brought up a third of a century after his death?

Regards,

32 posted on 10/21/2024 1:09:34 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"I’d seen Michael have meningitis, I’d seen him with broken bones, I’d seen him with a lot of illnesses over the course of our time together," the 60-year-old reflected.

"This man was the epitome of physical well-being," the former child star continued. "I always described him as an upside-down triangle, so strong, in such great shape, so healthy.

Her statements in the second paragraph oddly contradict her statements in the first.

33 posted on 10/21/2024 2:11:02 AM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He had a hit series every year without break from the age of 22:
Bonanza 1959-1973
Little House on the Prairie 1974-1983
Highway to Heaven 1984-1989

In 1954, he had the longest javelin throw by a high schooler in the United States that year. This earned him an athletic scholarship to the University of Southern California, but he subsequently tore his shoulder ligaments, putting an end to his days as a college athlete and as a student. Landon considered show business and served as an attendant at a service gas station opposite the studios of Warner Bros. He was eventually noticed by a local agent, then he did lots of TV and movie parts including “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” (1957).

He began writing and directing on Bonanza, which was the #1 TV show for 3 years. On Little House and Highway to Heaven, he was executive producer, director, writer and actor. Little House was a huge hit and one of the best TV series of all time. Some of the talent joined him from one series to the next.

I understand that some of extra kids on Little House were just kids from his neighborhood.

In a 2015 interview, Gilbert said of Landon, “He gave me so much advice...the overall idea that he pounded into me, from a little girl, into my brain was that nothing’s more important than ‘Home & Family’; no success, no career, no achievements, no accomplishments, nothing’s more important than loving the people you love and contributing to a community. Though we were working, really, really hard, we were ‘Not Saving The World’, one episode of television at a time, we’re just entertaining people and there are more important things to do... and have fun; no matter what.”


34 posted on 10/21/2024 4:00:58 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From wiki;

“The Loneliest Runner” is a semi-autobiographical made-for-television film written, produced and directed by Bonanza star Michael Landon. It first aired on December 20, 1976 on NBC...

...Michael Landon was the real-life version of the loneliest runner. As a child, he wet his bed until he was 14 and his mother, Peggy O’Neill, really did hang his sheets to dry outside of his bedroom window as punishment. The dysfunctional family life that Landon experienced during his early life was also similar to the ones in this autobiographical film.”

It took much courage and humility to reveal this.
A sad movie with a good ending.


35 posted on 10/21/2024 4:48:18 AM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“he pounded into me, from a little girl, into my brain was that nothing’s more important than ‘Home & Family’”

Says the man who had multiple affairs.


36 posted on 10/21/2024 4:52:34 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: wardaddy

“A decent fella”

Sometime watch “The Father I Knew” by Landon’s son. Not very decent. It also details how ML’s ex wife and Junior made decisions to accept Christ.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0198753/


37 posted on 10/21/2024 4:59:07 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So; It took him down by 10%? Very specific word, if you don’t know what a word means don’t use it.


38 posted on 10/21/2024 8:33:34 AM PDT by 55Ford
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Michael Landon’s ‘brutal’ cancer ‘decimated him’ “
So; It took him down by 10%? Very specific word, if you don’t know what a word means don’t use it.


39 posted on 10/21/2024 8:36:27 AM PDT by 55Ford
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To: KevinB

He was a 4 pack a day cigarette smoker.

“epitome of physical well-being”? I guess that is a matter of perception.


40 posted on 10/21/2024 8:43:57 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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