Richard Kimble

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 Dr. David Banner in the late 1970's/early 1980's successful television series "The Incredible Hulk".

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The Fugitive - David Janssen - Pediatrician - Execution

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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 U.S. marshall in pursuit of him. In the film version, Kimble was a prominent Chicago heart surgeon rather than a small-town pediatrician. This change was necessary to support the plot change in which the killing of Kimble's wife was not a senseless random murder by a transient (as in the original series) but rather the result of a fiendish plot by an evil drug company executive.

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1993 - The Fugitive - Harrison Ford - Tommy Lee Jones

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