Everything about Richard Kimble totally explained
Dr. Richard Kimble is the fictional character featured in the television series
The Fugitive, portrayed by actor
David Janssen. Kimble is a
pediatrician falsely convicted for the murder of his wife, Helen Kimble, but freed in a train wreck en route to
execution. He spends the series searching for the one-armed man, Fred Johnson, who is the real killer; while pursued by the relentless police detective, Lt. Philip Gerard, from whom he escaped. This style of show (traveling from town-to-town and the constant changing of identities/names) is similar to that of many later American TV series such as
Alias Smith and Jones,
The Incredible Hulk and
Renegade.
The character was also featured in the
1993 film
The Fugitive, based loosely on the original series, starring
Harrison Ford as the doctor and
Tommy Lee Jones as a
United States marshal in pursuit of him. In the film version, Kimble was a prominent Chicago vascular surgeon rather than a small-town pediatrician. This change was necessary to support the plot change in which the killing of Kimble's wife wasn't a senseless murder by a transient during a botched robbery attempt (as in the original series) but rather the result of a fiendish plot by an evil drug company executive.
Yet a third incarnation of Richard Kimble surfaced in an updated remake of the original
Fugitive series which aired during the 2000-2001 television season. Kimble in this version was portrayed by actor
Timothy Daly, whose father
James had guest starred in two segments of the original series.
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