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Aimee (17 episodes of the series (1976–79)), followed by reunion made-for-TV movies: A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993), (with Rachel Longaker, born 1965); and then two subsequent films Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain and A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain, – (using DeAnna Robbins, born 1959), is the adopted blonde-haired daughter of ...
Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs , the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs , and in Bones , as Seeley Booth 's grandfather.
When Geer died shortly after completing the sixth season of The Waltons, the death of his character was written into the show's script. His final episode, the last episode of the 1977–1978 season, showed him reuniting with his onscreen wife Esther (played by Ellen Corby ; she had been absent for the entire season due to a stroke).
"The Waltons" aired for nine seasons (1972-1981) on CBS. A further six TV movies aired in the 1980s and 1990s on NBC and CBS. Series creator Earl Hamner died last March at age 92.
Harvey Laidman, a television director known for working on multiple episodes of “The Waltons,” “Matlock” and “7th Heaven,” died Jan. 3 in Simi Valley, Calif. He was 82. Laidman’s ...
After portraying a landlady in an earlier episode of The Waltons, Rea permanently joined the cast in 1979 in the role of Rose Burton, a cousin of Olivia Walton, a surrogate parental figure replacing Ellen Corby (Grandma), Michael Learned (Olivia), and the following year, Ralph Waite (John).
Stevens played Paul Northridge in one episode of The Waltons and in three reunion movies. [1] In A Wedding on Walton's Mountain, the character of Northridge married Erin Walton (Mary Elizabeth McDonough), and he appeared in Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain and A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain. He was Sam Stadder (John-Boy's hospital ...
Costello's most notable role was that of Rosemary Hunter Fordwick on the television series The Waltons, from 1972 to 1977. In 1977, after her role on The Waltons, she played matriarch Maggie Fitzpatrick on the short-lived drama show The Fitzpatricks. Costello portrayed a hippie-vampire in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death. [2]