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- DIED. Michael Landon, 54, boyishly handsome actor, best known
- for playing Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza, and writer,
- director and producer of television hits; after a three-month
- battle with pancreatic and liver cancer; in Malibu, Calif. In
- 1957 Landon starred in the cult film favorite I Was a Teenage
- Werewolf. His part in Bonanza, which aired from 1959 to 1973,
- made him a household name. Landon subsequently starred in and
- wrote many of the episodes of Little House on the Prairie,
- solidifying a reputation for wholesome, if saccharine, family
- entertainment.
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