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Michael Landon Jr.

Michael Landon Jr.

Producer, director and writer, also actor and editor · Born June 20, 1964 (62) · Encino, California, USA

Michael Landon, Jr. (born on June 20, 1964 in Encino, California) is an American actor, director, writer and producer.

Biography from TMDB.

Born
June 20, 1964 (62)
From
Encino, California, USA
Works as
Producer, director and writer, also actor and editor
Titles
22 on MovieCove · 68 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 156 days to Oct 27Up 8% in 30 days

What are Michael Landon Jr.'s films like?

Across their 20 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
41%
Self
19%
Society
14%
Morality
13%
Survival
7%
Ideas
3%
Power
3%
Family bonds13 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love5 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity6 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity4 titles, browse their movies with this themeRedemption3 titles, browse their movies with this themeGrief3 titles, browse their movies with this themeComing of age2 titles, browse their movies with this themePurpose2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 19 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Light: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their light movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 13 · Serious 5 · Dark 1

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 17 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 9 · Charged 10 · Intense 0

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 14 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 18 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 17 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 16 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 11 · Affecting 5 · Heavy 3

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 19 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Roles they play

1 analyzed role

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Hopeful
17
Warm
13
Melancholic
6
Bittersweet
7
Romantic
4
Other
6

How their films linger

Hopeful18 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good13 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteRousing2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Happy12
  • Bittersweet6
  • Ambiguous2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Michael Landon Jr.'s films?

As of October 24, 2026, 15 of their 22 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Michael Landon Jr.'s titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

68 credits, 22 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

  • Hope Valley: 1874(2026)

    Show 8 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows

  • Highway to Heaven(2021)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films

  • When Calls the Heart: Changing Times (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Pre-Wedding Jitters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Before My Very Eyes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: What the Heart Wants (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: From the Ashes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Open Season (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: New Possibilities (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Into the Woods (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: In Perfect Unity (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Family Matters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: A Moving Picture (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Finding Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: A Call from the Past (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Disputing Hearts (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Heart of a Mountie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: The Queen of Hearts (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: The Greatest Blessing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Close to My Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Weather the Storm (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: My Heart Is Yours (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Home Is Where the Heart Is (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Hearts and Minds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: The Heart of Homecoming (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Heart of a Secret (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Healing Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Heart Of A Teacher (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Director · Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Heart Of Truth (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: The Heart Of The Community (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: The Heart Of Faith (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Producer

  • Heaven Sent (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Director · Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: Hearts in Question (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Executive Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Forever In My Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Heart Of A Hero (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Troubled Hearts (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Producer

  • When Calls the Heart: It Begins With Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Heart And Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Executive Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Heart Of The Family (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Heart And Soul (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Producer

  • When Calls The Heart: Trials Of The Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Producer

  • The Reckoning(2015)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • When Calls the Heart: A Telling Silence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director

  • When Calls the Heart: Lost & Found (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Writer

  • When Calls the Heart(2014)

    Show 139 episodes · Director · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows

  • When Calls the Heart(2013)

    Director · Executive Producer · Teleplay

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • The Ultimate Life(2013)

    Director

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • The Confession(2013)

    Director · Producer · Teleplay

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films

  • Jamaa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

  • The Shunning(2011)

    Director · Producer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films

  • Love Finds a Home(2009)

    Co-Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films

  • The Velveteen Rabbit(2009)

    Director · Producer · Story

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • Love Takes Wing(2009)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films

  • Saving Sarah Cain(2007)

    Director · Producer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films

  • Love's Unending Legacy(2007)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films

  • The Last Sin Eater(2007)

    Director · Editor · Producer · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • Love's Unfolding Dream(2007)

    Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films

  • Love's Abiding Joy(2006)

    Director · Producer · Story · Teleplay

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films

  • Love's Long Journey(2005)

    Director · Executive Producer · Teleplay

    Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films

  • Love's Enduring Promise(2004)

    Director · Executive Producer · Teleplay

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Love Comes Softly(2003)

    Director · Co-Executive Producer · Teleplay

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films

  • Michael Landon, the Father I Knew(1999)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films

  • Bonanza: Under Attack (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    as Benjamin 'Benj' Cartwright

  • Bonanza: The Return (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)

    Writer · as Benjamin 'Benj' Cartwright

  • Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Director

  • Bonanza: The Next Generation(1988)

    as Benjamin 'Benj' Cartwright

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films

  • Little House on the Prairie(1974)

    Show 1 episode · as Jim

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows

  • Home to Harmony (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show 1 episode · Writer

Career shape

A full career of 65 titles, 64 of them dated from 1974 to 2026.

Biggest box office

The Ultimate Life (2013)

$1.3M worldwide

Highest rated

Love Comes Softly (2003)

Midcredits 83rd

Most popular right now

Hope Valley: 1874 (2026)

Film career

  • 1993Screen debut· Bonanza: The Return

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting4 of 65: 3 only acting, 1 with another roleDirecting19 of 65: 4 only directing, 15 with another role · typical Midcredits score62ndWriting14 of 65: 1 only writing, 13 with another role · typical Midcredits score70thProducing51 of 65: 41 only producing, 10 with another role · typical Midcredits score76thOther crew1 of 65: 0 only other crew, 1 with another role

65 titles, 16 with more than one role — producing and directing overlap on 10 of them.

By decade

1970s1 · acting1980s1 · acting1990s4 · 2 acting · 3 crew2000s9 · crew2010s36 · crew2020s13 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Michael Landon Jr.'s films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 62nd percentile, the median of all 19; across their 19 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 60th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

60thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 19

Approval · how many liked their films

58thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 19

Reach · how many have seen their films

63rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 19

Midcredits score across 22 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up8
  • 50th to 74th9
  • 25th to 49th5

Shape of the crowd

9 of their 22 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved2
  • Divisive1
  • Cult Classic3
  • Crowd Pleaser9
  • Mixed7

Most divisive · producer

Highway to Heaven (2021)

95th percentile spread · 31% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · director, writer, producer

When Calls the Heart (2014)

Midcredits 87th · 86% liked

Reviewers score the atmosphere 57/100 and the pacing 42/100 in their films, across 18 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Michael Landon Jr. work with?

People who share at least 2 of Michael Landon Jr.'s MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Janette Oke shares the most, 9.

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers