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3/27/1931 (birth) | 1932/3 | Walnut Street near Jefferson, Naponee, NEBRASKA | David was born in this house (pictured here in 1992) during a severe late winter snowstorm. Dr. Vernon Talcott battled the weather and drove from nearby Republican City to deliver the 8 lb. 4 oz. baby at 10am. The iron bed had been moved into the dining room and near a floor register for heat. |
1932/3 | Fall 1936 | various homes in Alma, NEBRASKA including one at 1st and Lincoln. |
moved to Alma when the Naponee bank where David's father worked closed and he lost his job. After separation of parents, David lived with maternal grandparents while mother found work in Kearney, Nebraska. He also would have spent time at the Alma house of his paternal grandparents at 310 North Brown. |
Fall 1936 | early 1937 | Goodland, KANSAS | lived in a basement under a bank with his mother. |
1937 | 1937 | Alma, NEBRASKA | returned to Alma for a short time before relocating to Wyoming. |
1937 | 1938 | Casper, WYOMING | lived in an apartment with his mother Berniece above a tavern. Weekends were spent at the Wyoming ranch his grandfather was foreman of. It was located near Casper, but out of town. |
1938 |
1938 | Union & Seventh Street downtown Los Angeles |
first apartment in California. 1809 11th Street was an address that uncle Lyle Graf lived at and was near a school that David is believed to have attended. Berniece and David may have lived here also. |
1938 | 1939 | 629 1/2 North Alexandria Avenue Los Angeles |
The boarding house of Leila Countryman. Berniece lived here as a working single mom with David. Mrs. Countryman, a widow, provided caretaking services. The home, north of Clinton, was demolished to make way for the Hollywood Freeway. Berniece is believed to have had several other addresses during her early years in Los Angeles: She lived at 328 1/2 N. Alexandria at some point (near Mrs. Countryman's). In a driving tour of her old neighborhoods in 1991, she recognized a building at 219 N. Ardmore as the place she was living when prospective suitor Gene Janssen picked her up for their first date. She also recalled a cupola apartment which had prostitutes living downstairs-location unknown. These addresses may have been Berniece's during the time David was sent back to Casper for 3rd grade (see below). |
1939 | 9/1940 | Casper, WYOMING | David was sent back here to live for 3rd grade while his mother tried to get settled in California and was, as she put it, 'husband hunting'. |
9/1940 | 6/1941 | McKinley Home For Boys 13840 Riverside Drive Sherman Oaks, CA |
David was placed in boarding school when mother Berniece married Gene Janssen in September 1940. |
While David was boarding at school, Berniece, his mother, lived at: |
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late 1940 | 3/1941 | 1527 W 4th Street Los Angeles |
apartment when first married to Gene with a pull down bed in the front room |
3/1941 | 5/1943 | 4416 1/2 S. Gramercy Place Los Angeles |
a Spanish neighborhood/lived over garages |
Janssen moved home after boarding school: |
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6/1941 | 9/1941 | 4416 1/2 S. Gramercy Place Los Angeles |
see above |
9/1941 | 6/1942 | McKinley Home For Boys 13840 Riverside Drive Sherman Oaks, CA |
return to boarding school |
Janssen moved home after boarding school: |
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6/1942 | 5/1943 | 4416 1/2 S. Gramercy Place Los Angeles |
see above |
5/1943 | 1/7/1944 | 351 1/2 62nd Street (at Avalon) Los Angeles |
Berniece's parents, W.D. and Vern Graf arrived in California by early 1942. After moving around a bit while W.D. changed jobs, they moved in April 1943 to this address which Berniece called "the slum apartment". David lived here with them from May 1943 while his mother and half-sister Teri went to Oregon for 3 months of Gene Janssen's military duty there. in July 1943, Gene was transfered to Santa Ana and then to Whipple, AZ with a TB diagnosis. The Graf grandparents left California, and Berniece, infant Teri, and David occupied the address until they could find more permanent housing. |
1/7/1944 | 5/59/1950 | 6021 Colgate Avenue, Los Angeles (Park LaBrea) |
apartment where David lived most of his Junior High and High School years-rent started at $79 monthly. This 2-story garden apartment was in a just completed complex built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. |
5/29/1950 | 9/1950 | Ogunquit, MAINE | boarded at the Ogunquit Playhouse during summer stock at age 19. |
9/1950 | 12/3/1950 | New York, NY | Janssen spent 3 months in NYC trying to make it on the "Great White Way" after his Maine Summer Stock. He lived at 66 Barrow Street and 32 W. 72nd Street. |
Janssen moved home: |
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12/3/1950 | 1/9/1951 | 6021 Colgate Avenue Los Angeles (Park LaBrea) |
parents' apartment |
1/9/1951 | 5/1952 | 7600 Keystonian Avenue (current name) |
his parents' new house was in the Grandview Hills section of Los Angeles which was not yet annexed to Burbank when they lived there. The address then was 2800 Keystone and it became David's home base. David had his room painted green and had a snake acquired as a child in Yellowstone on his white oak dresser. |
Moved in and out of parents' house several times while they lived in Burbank (he'd usually move back home broke): |
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8/11/1951 | 9/26/1951 | 636 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles |
a red brick building called the Stanford Apartments. Roomate may have been Sam Davis. |
10/9/1951 | 10/10/1951 | Stanley & Romaine Los Angeles |
just for a few days |
10/11/1951 | 11/26/1951 | 1413 1/2 Alta Vista Los Angeles |
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11/26/1951 | 2/5/1952 | a new room | location not known-possibly roommate a Jerry Elliot |
2/5/1952 | 3/31/1952 | Norton & Fairfax Los Angeles |
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Janssen moved home for a month: |
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3/31/1952 | 5/8/1952 | 7600 Keystonian Avenue Burbank (Benmar Hills) |
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Moved out of his parents' house in Burbank again: |
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5/8/1952 | 6/1952? | 840 N. Hudson Los Angeles |
lived with with actor/restaurateur Nicky Blair. May have been 849-1/2 Hudson #28 (which was Nicky's address in Feb.) Was only here a short time because of induction into Army. |
David's parents move: |
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5/31/1952 | 6/1956 | 4447 Finley Avenue Los Angeles |
a new apartment |
Janssen called up for military service (Northern California): |
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6/1952 | 3/1954 | Fort Ord, CA | military service in Northern California. David bunked at the base initially, but was eventually allowed to find housing elsewhere. With actor Marty Milner, who was also doing military time in the same Special Services division, and another L.A. friend Dick Vertlieb, they got an apartment in scenic Carmel on Dolores Street. One had to walk down several steps to reach it. Nicknamed "Beaver's Basin" for reasons best not explored here, the 3 shrewdly recuited a cook from the base as the 4th roommate. |
Janssen moved home: |
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3/1954 | 6/1956 | 4447 Finley Avenue Los Angeles |
parents' home and David's base for the next 2 years |
Janssen moved out of parents' Finley house: |
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3/28/1955 | 5/1/1955 | address unknown | moved in again with actor Marty Milner. May have been a building in North Hollywood torn down to make room for a freeway onramp. |
Janssen moved home: |
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5/1/1955 | 10/1/1955 | 4447 Finley Avenue Los Angeles |
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Janssen moved out of parents' Finley house: |
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10/1/1955 | 1/13/1956 | 11506 Moorpark Street North Hollywood |
cross street Camellia |
Janssen moved home: |
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5/1/1955 | 10/1/1955 | 4447 Finley Avenue Los Angeles |
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6/1956 | 1/24/1958 | 4349 Clarissa Avenue Los Angeles |
parents move to a new apartment nearby and stayed here to 10/1960. Janssen lives at home with them until he is 27 and in his at 2nd season of RICHARD DIAMOND! |
Janssen moved out of parents home forever! |
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1/24/1958 | 11/22/1958 | 10609 Landale Street North Hollywood |
David's duplex-bachelor pad. Fellow U-I actors Richard Long and Mara Corday lived in another unit. A partially-furnished studio for $150/mo. rented from Lillian Barrett. Lived here a short time with wife Ellie after wedding before they found their own place. |
11/22/1958 | 4/15/1961 | 8911 Cynthia Avenue #11 West Hollywood |
2-bedroom unfurnished apartment for $245/month. Rented from Nathan Juran, who was art director on David's1st U-I film. First place rented with Ellie after their marriage. Located off the Sunset Strip. |
4/15/1961 | 3?/1967 | 2002 Loma Vista Drive Bel Air (Trousdale Estates) |
house bought from RICHARD DIAMOND wages and the quick succession of movies he did after. Interior design Eddie Doster. Sold at end of THE FUGITIVE series to producer Don Fedderson. Was on the market for $225,000. Sold for $202, 000. After Fedderson, Dean Martin owned house. Featured in Architectural Digest in 1965. |
4?/1967 | 8/1968 | 9255 Doheny Road #1906 (Sierra Towers) Los Angeles |
SE corner of the building - rent $765/month. Nicknamed "the Heartbreak Hotel." Co-residents Buddy and Dani Greco (his wife-to-be) lived 2 floors up in unit 2106 in an identical floor plan. Patti Duke, Willie and Babs Shoemaker, Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin, Dean Martin's parents, and Ted Mann of Mann's Theaters were also residents. Janssen stayed here until his separation from Ellie. Ellie stayed here until she moved to an apartment on Bedford. Located on the Sunset Strip. |
8/1968 | ? | 290 Strada Corta Road Los Angeles |
friend Ralph Stolkin's house where Janssen first went for a short time after marital separation. |
late 1968 | Beverly Hills Hotel | moved here for a few weeks while his secretary Victor looked for a longer-term place for him. | |
late 1968 | 9/1969 | 1240 La Collina Drive Beverly Hills |
David's temporary digs during the filming of MAROONED and GENERATION. Previously owned by Lorena Hepple and designer Hannah Grover. Eartha Kitt lived in front of Janssen and Phil Spector down the street. The house, featured in the Spring 1968 issue of Architectural Digest, had an L-shaped living room/dining room with a red and black glazed brick tile floor. A swimming pool off the living room was accessable via a set of sliding glass doors which flanked the fireplace. Property could be seen from the Sierra Towers where estranged-wife Ellie remained after the separation. Girlfriend and frequent overnight guest Rosemary Forsyth officially lived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (rm. 615) in Nov/Dec 1968 and then rented a small house at 513 Roxbury before she and David officially moved in together. This Roxbury house was owned by Lily Messinger, who had worked for Louis B. Mayer. Joan Crawford had lived there in the late 20's. |
9/1969 | 8/1971 | 1196 Cabrillo Drive Beverly Hills |
Janssen's
rental house with Rosemary Forsyth. House was built for actor Lawrence Harvey and British
director Jack Clayton. Rent was ~$3000 to ~$3500 a month.
Was a 1-bedroom house with 2 maids rooms, one occupied by Rosemary's daughter Alexandra and one by a governess. Built by architects (Conrad) Buff & (Donald) Hensman, with associate (Cal) Straubt in 1962, this was the architectural firm's 1st celebrity house. They would go on to do homes for James Garner, Paul Anka and many others. Harvey owned the undeveloped lot off Coldwater Canyon and was looking to find an archtect. His BUTTERFIELD 8 costume designer Helen Rose had worked with the team and made the introduction.
The house is sold in 1977 to Totie Fields and her husband. After her death a year later, the house is sold to a Mexican industrialist, Felix Mechoulam. Later owners are: Joan Collins, composer Jerry Herman,"Will and Grace" creator Max Muchnick, and as of late 2007, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi, who have substantially altered the original structure. |
8/1971 | 2/1972 | bungalow 113 at Universal | Homeless after his breakup with Rosemary Forsyth, Janssen moved to his Universal Studios dressing room for several months while filming O'HARA, US TREASURY at the studio. Dani still lived at the Sierra Towers. |
2/1972 | 5/1972 | 625 Avenita Granada Palm Springs |
after finishing his TV series and having nowhere to live in Los Angeles, Janssen goes to Palm Springs. He stays temporarily at the Gene Autry Hotel (mid-March) finally finding a rental at this address from Lorena Heppel. On the Canyon Country Club, it was 5 blocks from the house he used to own on Yosemite. |
5?/1972 | 2/1980 (death) | 2220 Avenue of the Stars #2803 Century City (Century Towers) |
moved in with Dani Greco into this penthouse condominium. First rented from Mrs. O'Connor for a year then bought in 1973. Bought unit #2804 next door as a rental unit later. |
Janssen lived in a variety of places while working on various filming locations including: |
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Spring 1968 | Villa Angiolillo via Appia Antica loc. Torricola Rome |
David and wife Ellie's accomodations in Rome during THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN was a villa on the via Appia Antica 10 minutes from Cinecitta Studios in the Rome suburb of Torricola. It was designed by Attilio Lapadula in 1954 and built for the Roman Senator Renato Angiolillo after his term in office from 1948-1953. Angiolillo was also the founder of the Italian newspaper Il Tempo and, in 1942, the writer of a story for a movie "Un Garibaldino Al Convento" directed by Vittorio de Sica, Janssen's FISHERMAN co-star. This may or may not be be the same villa (called Pappa) that Elizabeth Taylor and husband Eddie Fisher rented during her CLEOPATRA filming. Taylor's affair with Richard Burton during her occupancy were well publicized. Janssen's Italian dalliances were less so. |
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7/1974 | 11/1974 | 2502 Ocean Front Del Mar |
While based in San Diego filming HARRY O. This was a rented beachfront house later owned by Major League baseball player Steve Finley. |
Janssen moved out during marital problems before getting his own Malibu house 2nd home in 5/1977: |
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12/1976 | L'Ermitage Hotel | lived here during a separation with wife Dani and while seeing Carol Connors | |
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childhood | Big Bear Lake, CA | Parents had a vacation property in this vacation town. | |
9/1964 | 12/12/1968 | 2220 Yosemite Drive Palm Springs, CA |
On the 14th hole of the Canyon Country Club near the clubhouse. House was originally built by Chuck Dwight and decorated by Noel Birns though Ellie had a strong hand redoing the interior after the Janssens bought it. Neighbors were actors William Demarest (at 2290) and Richard Krisher (at 2250) Sold to Milton/ Toni Holt Kramer. |
8/1965 | 1971 | Southridge Lot 2, tract 2928
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Bought this hilltop residential lot on the side of Smoke Tree Mountain from Sam Broomfield in 1965. The land cost $95,000. Talks about building a home on it in 6/68. Grading is done and in 1971 intends to start construction on the home designed by Edward Giddings. Abandons plans due to financial problems. Bob Hope would have been his neighbor. Others who lived in this gated and guarded community were Steve McQueen and William Holden. Business manager Fred Barman recalls that there was a model done of the house and seeing it pointed out to Janssen that the pool was designed in such a way that a pool man couldn't access it except by going through the house. Escrow # 50179 (Southland Escrow) Parcel Tax ID: 297 000 177. |
12/1976 | 2/1980 | 21958 Pacific Coast Highway Malibu (Carbon Beach) |
Dani sold the house in early 1998 for $2,275,000. It was demolished in 2002 along with neighboring 21962 PCH to make room for a 4700 square foot beach retreat for billionare and philanthopist Eli Broad, the 42nd most wealthy man in the world according to Forbes Magazine's survey of 2006. |
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9/19/1966 | 1973 | 9255 Sunset Blvd. Suite 1110 Los Angeles (Sunset Strip) |
David Janssen Enterprises headquartered here. $93.80/month rent to Buckeye
Realty. Other people in the Janssen team were in the same building:
- publicist Frank Lieberman (510) |
1976 | ? | CBS Studio Center Studio City, CA |
Janssen had offices here after making a production deal with CBS. |