Joe Lando

For me, Joe Lando will always be Byron Sully from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and that's no small thing. He built his footing in daytime on One Life to Live, then found the role that lodged him permanently in households across the 90s with that quiet, frontier-rugged charm. What I appreciate now is that he didn't coast on it; moving into producing shows an actor curious about the other side of the camera. There's a particular kind of luck and craft in landing one role audiences never let go of, and Lando seems to wear it well. A steady, enduring presence worth remembering.

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Name (English)

Joe Lando

Name (Japanese)

ジョー・ランドー

Reading

じょー・らんどー

Born

December 9, 1961 (age 64)

Origin

Prairie View, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

High school

Stevenson High School

• Official sitehttp://www.joelando.org/index2.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/therealjoelando/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Lando
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1189439

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.