![]() ![]() ![]() Landon attended Collingswood High School and was an excellent javelin thrower, with his 193 ft 4 in (58.93 m) toss in 1954 being the longest throw by a high schooler in the United States that year. He ran home every day and tried to remove them before his classmates could see. His mother put his wet sheets on display outside his window for all to see. Stress overload from the suicide attempts of his mother caused Landon to battle the childhood problem of bedwetting, which was documented in the unauthorized biography Michael Landon: His Triumph and Tragedy. He said that it was the worst experience of his life. Shortly after the attempt, his mother acted as if nothing happened and a few minutes later, he vomited. On a family beach vacation his mother tried to drown herself, but he rescued her. His family recalls that Landon "went through a lot of hassle studying for the big event, which included bicycling to a nearby town every day in order to learn how to read Hebrew and recite prayers." ĭuring his childhood, Landon was constantly worrying about his mother attempting suicide. He attended, and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at, Temple Beth Sholom. In 1941, when Landon was four years old, he and his family moved to the borough of Collingswood, New Jersey, near Philadelphia. Eugene was the Orowitz family's second child their daughter, Evelyn, was born three years earlier, in 1933. His father was Jewish, and his mother was Roman Catholic. His parents were Peggy (née O'Neill a dancer and comedian) and Eli Maurice Orowitz. Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on Octoin Forest Hills, a neighborhood of Queens, New York. ![]()
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