David's Little House Star Profiles and Trivia

Very nice.wow,That was him 90210.coolie.

He HAS done alot since LH. I notice he shares a birthday with Melissa Gilbert.
I'm sure his southern accent got him a few of those roles.

Pamela Roylance was born in March of 1952 in Seattle, Wa. She has performed in over 35 TV and movie productions.
She did 15 episodes of Little House as Sarah Carter
"Chuck" (1 episode)
1. Chuck Versus the Wedding Planner (19 April 2011) - Actress
"Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" (1 episode) Night Hawks (6 April 2011) - Miriam
"Mad Men" (1 episode)
1. My Old Kentucky Home (30 August 2009) - Irene Ettinger
"Justice" (2 episodes )
1. Pilot (30 August 2006) - Judge Jane Peechum
2. Filicide (8 December 2006) - Judge Peechum
"Grey's Anatomy" (1 episode)
1. Break on Through (29 January 2006) - Alice Bickham
"Ghost Whisperer" (1 episode)
1. Mended Hearts (14 October 2005) - Lucy
"Jack & Bobby" (4 episodes )
1. A Man of Faith (3 October 2004) - Mrs. Belknap
2. Chess Lessons (10 November 2004) - Mrs. Evelyn Belknap
3. A Child of God (20 April 2005) - Mrs. Evelyn Belknap
4. Stand by Me (4 May 2005) - Mrs. Evelyn Belknap
"Felicity" (1 episode)
1. The Paper Chase (10 April 2002) - Client
"7th Heaven" (1 episode)
... aka "7th Heaven: Beginnings" - USA (rerun title)
1. Consideration (10 December 2001) - Fire Chief's Wife
"Murder, She Wrote" (2 episodes )
1. The Family Jewels (4 November 1990) - Olivia
2. Dead to Rights (21 March 1993) - Gloria Jergens
"Father Dowling Mysteries" (1 episode)
1. The Medical Mystery (27 September 1990) - Receptionist
"Midnight Caller" (1 episode)
1. The Reverend Soundbite (6 March 1990) - Claire Graham
"Designing Women" (1 episode)
1. Hard Hats and Lovers (19 December 1988) - Mimi Hollingsworth
"Starman" (1 episode)
1. Fever (5 December 1986) - Spring
"Knots Landing" (1 episode)
1. Over the Edge (13 November 1986) - Cheryl Miller
"MacGyver" (1 episode)
1. Slow Death (2 April 1986) - Diana Kingman
"Falcon Crest" (1 episode)
1. Hidden Meanings (7 March 1986) - TV Reporter
"Hotel" (1 episode)
1. Lovelines (19 February 1986) - Marla Franklin
"Remington Steele" (1 episode)
1. Steele on the Air (7 January 1986) - Marcia West
"Little House on the Prairie" (15 episodes )
Times Are Changing: Part 1 (27 September 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
Times Are Changing: Part 2 (4 October 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
1. Welcome to Olesonville (11 October 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
2. Rage (18 October 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
3. Little Lou (25 October 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
4. The Wild Boy: Part 1 (1 November 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
5. The Wild Boy: Part 2 (8 November 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
6. The Return of Nellie (15 November 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
7. The Empire Builders (22 November 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
8. Love (29 November 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
9. Alden's Dilemma (6 December 1982) - Sarah Reed Carter
10. Sins of the Fathers (10 January 1983) - Sarah Reed Carter
11. A Child with No Name (14 February 1983) - Sarah Reed Carter
12. The Last Summer (21 February 1983) - Sarah Reed Carter
13. May I Have This Dance (14 March 1983) - Sarah Reed Carter
FROM AN INTERVIEW SHE DID ABOUT LITTLE HOUSE
I felt honored to be cast as Sarah, and to join a show I had admired as a viewer for so many years. I used to come home from teaching school in Portland, put dinner in the oven, and watch LH reruns while the dinner was cooking. I'd think, "That's the kind of show I'd like to do. Why can't I get on a show like that?" And I'd think in terms of getting on the show as a regular, not as a guest or co-star. Hence, I didn't think I'd ever be a regular on LH because it was already cast with its regulars, and was in its 6th or 7th season by that time.
I had some natural concerns about joining an existing "family." They were a well oiled machine. In my mind they might not be interested in newcomers treading on their territory. After all, they had done all the work by then. They had made the show what it was, and is, today. We were walking into something that worked well. I felt extremely lucky, but wondered how we would be received. If any of the existing cast members had any reservations about us, they didn't voice it or show it in anyway. There were just open arms, lots of smiles and an immediate welcoming into the fold. The fun started the day we went to work and didn't end until we wrapped.

LATER YEARS

JOHN IRELAND
He was in over 200 Movies and TV Shows….a very prolific actor.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he lived in New York City from the age of 18. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway. A tall, lean former professional swimmer who once performed in a water carnival, he appeared on Broadway and toured in Shakespeare in the late 1930s and early 40s before entering film in the mid-40s.
He made his screen debut as Pvt. Windy, the thoughtful letter-writing GI, in the 1945 war film A Walk in the Sun. This was followed by Wake Up and Dream in 1946. A supporting actor in several notable Westerns including John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) and Howard Hawks' 1948 film Red River (the scene between Ireland and Montgomery Clift, where they compare guns and take each other's measure by "walking" a can across the ground with their pistol shots, is a film classic). And a lead in small noirs like Railroaded (1947), Ireland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his forceful performance as Jack Burden, the hard-boiled newspaper reporter who evolves from devotee to cynical denouncer of demagogue Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination.
Occasionally his name was mentioned in tabloids of the times, in connection with much younger starlets, namely Natalie Wood, Barbara Payton and Sue Lyon. He attracted controversy by dating 16-year-old actress Tuesday Weld when he was 45.
A prolific performer in films and early TV, Ireland had made the transition to supporting roles by the mid-50s, playing cynical villains in films like Vengeance Valley (1951), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) and 55 Days at Peking (1962). He also starred as an innocent man on the run in the 1955 original Fast And The Furious and had a key role as the gladiator Crixus in the Stanley Kubrick 1960 spectacle Spartacus, co-starring with Kirk Douglas. In 1960 he starred as Winch in the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Garden of Eden". From 1960–1962 he starred in the British television series The Cheaters, playing John Hunter, a claims investigator for an insurance company who tracked down cases of fraud. By the mid-60s, he was turning up as the star of B-movies such as I Saw What You Did. In 1965 he replaced Eric Fleming as the trail boss and older man character in Rawhide on American T.V. This was the last season for Rawhide.
In 1967 he appeared on Bonanza with Michael Landon in the episode "Judgement at Red Creek". A few years later he again appeared with Landon on Little House on the Prairie as a drunk who saves Carrie Ingalls who had fallen down an abandoned mine shaft.Ireland was seen in Italian productions like The House of the Seven Corpses (1974), Salon Kitty (1976) and Satan's Cheerleaders (1977). But he did also appear in big-budget fare such as The Adventurers (1970) and as a police lieutenant in the Robert Mitchum private-eye caper Farewell, My Lovely. He was seen in the War of the Worlds episode "Eye for an Eye" in 1988.
Ireland regularly returned to the stage throughout his career and co-directed two features in the 1950s: the acclaimed western drama Hannah Lee (1953) and the carjacking B-movie Fast and the Furious.
He was married to:
• Elaine Sheldon (1940–49), by whom he had two sons, John and Peter
• Joanne Dru (1949–57)
• Daphne Myrick Cameron (from 1962 until his death), with whom he had a daughter.
In his later years he owned a restaurant, Ireland's, in Santa Barbara, California.
He died of leukemia in 1992, aged 78. For his contribution to the television industry, John Ireland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1610 Vine Street.

He was in two episodes of Little House
The Winoka Warriors(1978)… Frank Carlin
Little Girl Lost(1976)… Wendell Loudy

SCENE FROM LITTLE GIRL LOST

very cool.

Pamela Roylance is one of my favorites! I sent her a happy birthday message on fbook and she thanked me . She really seems to be grateful of all her time on LH and her fans.

John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.
One of his most notable film roles was the acrobat known as "the Fool" in the acclaimed Italian film La Strada, directed by Federico Fellini. He also appeared as the killer in the film noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), as a psychotic member of the Hatfield clan in Roseanna McCoy (1949), as Ishmael in Moby Dick (1956), and in the drama Decision Before Dawn (1951). He was married to Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son, the actor Jackie Basehart, before their divorce in 1960. Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wise's The House on Telegraph Hill (1951).
From 1964-68, Basehart played the lead role, Admiral Harriman Nelson, on Irwin Allen's first foray into science-fiction television, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Allen would go on to produce a number of sci-fi series in the 1960s and the highly successful feature films The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974), earning him the moniker "The Master of Disaster." Although Basehart started his career as a film actor, he became best known for his role on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Basehart was also noted for his deep, distinctive voice and was prolific as a narrator of many television and movie projects ranging from features to documentaries. In 1980, Basehart narrated the mini-series written by Peter Arnett called Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War that covered Vietnam and its battles from the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945 to the final American embassy evacuation on April 30, 1975. He appeared in the pilot episode of the television series Knight Rider as billionaire Wilton Knight. He is the narrator at the beginning of the show's credits.
He starred as Hitler in the 1962 film of that name. In 1971, Basehart played "Captain Sligo", a comical Irishman with a pet buffalo who negotiates a flawed but legal cattle purchase and unconventionally courts a widow with two children, played by Salome Jens, in CBS's western series, Gunsmoke, with James Arness. Basehart appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, and as Hannibal Applewood, an abusive schoolteacher in Little House on the Prairie in 1976.
In 1972, he appeared in the Columbo episode Dagger of the Mind in which he and Honor Blackman played a husband-and-wife theatrical team who were loose parodies of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In the feature realm, he played a supporting role as a doctor in Rage (1972), a theatrical feature starring and directed by George C. Scott. He made a few TV movies including Sole Survivor (1970) and The Birdmen (1971). Both were based on true stories during World War II.
He was married three times. After the death of his first wife Stephanie Klein, he wed Italian actress Valentina Cortese (whose name was spelled Cortesa in American films). After their divorce, Basehart married Diana Lotery, with whom he founded the charity Actors and Others for Animals.
Basehart died at age 70 following a series of strokes. One month before his death, Basehart was an announcer for the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He is buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery in Los Angeles.

APPEARED IN 109 TV SHOWS AND MOVIES

ONE LITTLE HOUSE EPISODE
Troublemaker (1976)… Hannibal Applewood
And He Was A Nasty One!


ANOTHER MR. NICE GUY ROLE OF BASEHART'S -1962

AS A BREAK IN THE BIOS, THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE SOME PICTURES OF THE BUILDING OF THE SETS. SOME HAVE SEEN THESE, BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVEN'T, I HOPE YOU ENJOY SEEING THEM.
BUILDING HANSENS LUMBER

BUILDING THE SCHOOL HOUSE / CHURCH

BUILDING THE BARN

BUILDING THE MERCANTILE

Boy, there were a lot of hunks well hidden under the mullets of the 70's and 80's.

David Hooks was born January 9, 1920 in Smithfield, North Carolina.
His career began in 1956 on The Edge Of Night daytime series. He appeared in over 40 movies and TV shows. Naked City, The Waltons, The Rockford Files, Murder She Wrote and Highway To Heaven in the episode "The Smile In The Third Row" as an actor in 1985, to name a few.
He passed away on October 1, 2008 (age 88) in Valley Village, Los Angeles, California, USA
He was a very versatile actor.

He was in 7 Little House Episodes and played two very different parts. He played Mr. Ames who ran the blind school in Winoka, and Luther, the schill for the evil showman that abused Matthew in the Wild Boy.
1.As Long as We're Together: Part 1 (11 September 1978) - Mr. Ames
2.As Long as We're Together: Part 2 (18 September 1978) - Mr. Ames
3.The Man Inside (2 October 1978) - Mr. Ames
4.The Wedding (6 November 1978) - Mr. Ames
5.Blind Journey: Part 1 (27 November 1978) - Mr. Ames
6.The Wild Boy: Part 1 (1 November 1982) - Luther
7.The Wild Boy: Part 2 (8 November 1982) - Luther

As Mr. Ames at the Blind School

As Luther in The Wild Boy opposite Jonathon Hall Kovacs (Matthew)

I never realized Mr. Ames and Luther were the same guy.

MICHAEL P ALAN

This is a good example of how frustrating research can be. There is absolutely no info on
Michael P Alan. He was in two Little House Episodes and one TV movie. No birth date, no background, no nothing.
KINDA MAKES YOU WONDER, DOESN'T IT?

1978-1981 Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
Joey / Peter
– For the Love of Nancy (1981) … Joey
– The Wedding (1978) … Peter
1979 Better Late Than Never (TV movie)

James Vincent McNichol, III, known professionally as Jimmy McNichol (born July 2, 1961) is an American former child actor and the brother of actress Kristy McNichol.
He got his start at the age of 7, acting in a Band-Aid commercial. He appeared in roughly 60 commercials between 1967–1973, including spots for Kool-Aid and Crest. He then landed minor roles in shows such as S.W.A.T. and Little House on the Prairie.

He made his first movie, Sunshine, in 1973 at the age of 12. His first regular starring role was as younger brother Jack on The Fitzpatricks. Michele Tobin played his sister on the show, and they later reteamed on California Fever. McNichol sang the show's theme song, and in 1978 recorded an album with his sister, Kristy, produced by Phil & Mitch Margo. When California Fever ended, Jimmy was given the role as host of a weekly talk show, Hollywood Teen. He appeared in several successful made-for-TV movies, including Blinded by the Light which co-starred his sister Kristy. He made several low budget feature films before accepting the role of Josh Clayton on General Hospital. His love of music continued and he performed in a band throughout the 1980s under the name "Jimmy James".

His last notable acting role was that of Jill Ireland's son Val in the movie based on her life. In the early 1990s James gave up acting and has been doing residential construction and rehab work. He continues to sing and conceive ideas for protecting the environment. His most recent idea was for an environmental program for kids, PlaneTView, to be hosted by sister, Kristy. The show was never picked up. James now lives with his wife Renee (married in 1997) and two children (a son, Nash, and a daughter, Ellis, born in 1998) in Southern California.

In 1999, he was focusing on ecological education with a web site called ECOTV, was still performing with his band "Wizard King" and released a new CD, called Echo Warrior.

His performances include:
V.R. Troopers (TV series)
Brandon Sands
– A Hard Day's Mutant(1995)… Brandon Sands
1991Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (TV movie)
Valentine McCallum
1976-1985ABC Afterschool Specials (TV series)
David Hanna
– First the Egg(1985)… David Hanna (as James McNichol)
– Me and Dad's New Wife(1976)
1984-1985General Hospital (TV series)
Josh Clayton
1984California Cowboys
Daniel
1984Safe Harbor (TV movie)
1983Night Warning
Billy Lynch
1983The Love Boat (TV series)
Charles Davidson
– Isaac's Aegean Affair/The Captain and the Kid/Poor Rich Man/The Dean and the Flunkee: Part 1(1983)… Charles Davidson
– Isaac's Aegean Affair/The Captain and the Kid/Poor Rich Man/The Dean and the Flunkee: Part 2(1983)… Charles Davidson
1981Smokey Bites the Dust
Roscoe Wilton
1980 Blinded by the Light (TV movie)
David Bowers (as James Vincent McNichol)
1979 California Fever (TV series)
Vince Butler
– Beach Wars(1979)… Vince Butler
– The Good Life(1979)… Vince Butler
– Stars of Tomorrow(1979)… Vince Butler
– Centerfold(1979)… Vince Butler
– Portrait of Laurie(1979)… Vince Butler
1979 Champions: A Love Story (TV movie)
Peter Scoggin III
1977-1978The Fitzpatricks (TV series)
Jack Fitzpatrick
– The New Fitzpatrick(1978)… Jack Fitzpatrick
– A Living Wage(1978)… Jack Fitzpatrick
– Episode #1.11(1978)… Jack Fitzpatrick
– Runaway(1978)… Jack Fitzpatrick
– Say Goodbye to Buddy Bonkers(1977)… Jack Fitzpatrick
1976 Stranded (TV movie)
Tim Blake (as James Vincent McNichol)
1975 S.W.A.T. (TV series)
Youth
– Vigilante(1975)… Youth
1975 Shazam! (TV series)
Kelly Martin
– Double Trouble(1975)… Kelly Martin
1974 Gunsmoke (TV series)
Willie
– The Tarnished Badge(1974)… Willie

Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
He was in 3 episodes of Little House as Harry Baker - Note: He was called a bad boy on the set by Missy Anderson. He threw a pencil at her and nearly put her eye out.
– The Voice of Tinker Jones(1974)… Harry Baker(uncredited)
– School Mom(1974)… Harry Baker
– The Love of Johnny Johnson(1974)… Harry Baker
As Harry Baker

His Sister Kristy

Later Years - Jimmy

Is that later photo Jimmy or Kristy?

Darn Gin: Kristy may have aged a little, but she doesn't look that bad. Thats Jimmy at 50.


KRISTY LAST YEAR

Paul Francis Larson
Born:
December 22, 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died:
July 6, 1989 (age 68) in Los Angeles County, California, USA
He was an actor in 38 titles in Movies and TV
from 1949 -1983.
Here Are A Few:
1984 The Ratings Game (TV movie)
Julie
1983 Father Murphy (TV series)
Haskell
– The Rockets' Red Glare(1983)… Haskell
1983 Cagney & Lacey (TV series)
Hurok
– Affirmative Action(1983)… Hurok
1982 Hill Street Blues (TV series)
Sneezing Drunk
– Little Boil Blue(1982)… Sneezing Drunk
1982 Thou Shalt Not Kill (TV movie)
1980-1982Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
Addison Fisk / Sam Pendergast
– The Legacy(1982)… Addison Fisk
– A New Beginning(1980)… Sam Pendergast
1981 Sizzle (TV movie)
Johnson
1980 Vega$ (TV series)
Enfield
– A Deadly Victim(1980)… Enfield
1980 Marilyn: The Untold Story (TV movie)
1980 The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (TV movie)
1980 CBS Afternoon Playhouse (TV series)
Vendor
– One Last Ride - Part 5(1980)… Vendor
– One Last Ride - Part 2… Vendor
– One Last Ride - Part 3… Vendor
– One Last Ride - Part 4… Vendor
1980The Rockford Files (TV series)
Waiter
– Deadlock in Parma(1980)… Waiter
1979 When She Was Bad... (TV movie)
Harrison
1979 The China Syndrome
D.B. Royce

He Was On two Episodes of Little House
– The Legacy (1982) … Addison Fisk
– A New Beginning (1980) … Sam Pendergast
As Sam Pendergast - Sold The Freight Co. to Jonathon Garvey - " A New Beginning"

As Addison Fisk - Stole The Design For Charles Table in "The Legacy"

Prairie Dweller wrote:

Boy, there were a lot of hunks well hidden under the mullets of the 70's and 80's.

AND TO THINK, I WAS ONE OF THEM! (LOL)

Lori wrote:

I never realized Mr. Ames and Luther were the same guy.

either did i.


Kristy,She played in the t.v show empty nest.Has i remember.very instersting stuff.

nice picture..

Born 21 March 1963, Burbank, California, USA
Jill Schoelen was a husky-voiced "scream queen" heroine of the 1980s, daughter of well-known fashion designer Dorothy Schoelen. Born and raised in Burbank, she studied at the Acting for Life Theatre in Burbank and started off on TV as a teen in the Fame-influenced TV pilot called Best of Times (1981) (TV) starring the up-and-coming Nicolas Cage and Crispin Glover. She gained in experience with a number of innocuous films geared mostly toward the young, including D.C. Cab (1983), Thunder Alley (1985) and Hot Moves (1984). The dark-eyed, black-haired pretty with the trademark bangs wouldn't find her horror niche until hooking up with Wes Craven and his TV movie Chiller (1985) (TV). From there she scored big with the cult shocker The Stepfather (1987) wherein she played the resourceful stepdaughter terrorized by the lecherous, meek-appearing Terry O'Quinn as the title monster.

The sleeper hit put Jill on the map with a seemingly solid future, continuing on with The Phantom of the Opera (1989), this time keeping company opposite Freddy Krueger inhabiter Robert Englund as her deranged pursuer. But a few bumps in the road with such lowgrade fodder as The Bite (1989), Cutting Class (1989) and Popcorn (1991) put a permanent damper on her career, despite coming back with a bit of grit in the thriller TV movie When a Stranger Calls Back (1993) (TV). Her object-of-a-stalker days behind her after filming Not Again! (1996), she settled comfortably back and raised two children with husband/musician/composer Anthony Marinelli.

She was in one Little House Episode
She played the blind girl who falls in love with Mr. Edwards
“Love”– 1982 – Jane Canfield

DATED KEANU REEVES AFTER FILMING BABES IN TOYLAND

ENGAGED TO BRAD PITT IN 1988 - REPORTEDLY SHE DUMPED HIM

David Huffman , born in May of 1945, was an American leading and supporting actor, though often underrated, he was a familiar face in films and on television in the 1970s and 80s.
The great success he had achieved, was cut short after he was tragically murdered in 1985.
He had been appearing on Broadway for a number of years and often seen in supporting parts in television films and shows. He became known after taking the title role in the 1979 made for TV historical film "Tom Edison: The Boy Who Lit Up the World". Huffman's performance led to a short, but successful career of leading and supporting roles in films such as "Ice Castles", "F.I.S.T.", "Blood Beach", "St. Helens" and "Firefox". He was married to Phyllis Huffman and had two children.

In 1985, he was murdered by a thief in San Diego, California. After bringing cookies to say farewell to his "Of Mice and Men" cast-mates at the Old Globe Theater, he spotted and chased the thief (who had broken into a Canadian couple's motor-home) into a Balboa Park canyon. He was subsequently stabbed twice with a screwdriver. The murderer was sentenced to 26 years in prison in 1986. David was to begin the TV miniseries "North and South" the following week. He was 39 years old.

He was in one Little House Episode
Alden's Dilemma (1982) … Reverend Addison Hale who bought the house for Reverend Alden

Very sad how his life ended!

Ohhh, that rascal Addison Fisk. Stealing Paw's table design!?! I'd love to box his ears, give him a good 'what for' and do some other things that I probably shouldn't say on a family forum.
(Calm down Joe, it's only a tv show.)

Now Joe, you have to think things out. You know Charles would have never been able to stay in Minneapolis if the business would have been a success. Ripping Carolyn and the kids out of Walnut Grove again, no more Harriet Olsen, no more Nels and Willie. No more Reverend Alden. Leaving Laura and Almanzo. Putting up with Saloons and the like.

Having to raise James, Cassandra, Carrie and Grace in the big city. No more talks with the kids out by the barn at night. No more fishing or jumping in the creek when the need arose. No more heart ripping scenes up in that loft.

And worst of all, you wouldn't have seen Pa lovin those two sons of his at the end!
It all worked out for the best! It always did!


Stayin Home! That smile was somethin else!


PS: THANKS FOR GIVING ME AN EXCUSE TO SQUEEZE ALBERT IN! YOU KNOW WHO MY FAVORITE IS!

Kim Richards was one of the most popular and adorable star child actresses of the 70s. Kim was born on September 19th, 1964 in Mineola, New York to Kenneth L. "Ken" Richards and Sharon Kathleen "Kathy" Dugan. She made her TV commercial debut at four months in a diaper ad. By age four and a half Kim had already appeared in 20 TV commercials. Richards made her television series debut in 1970 on the show "Nanny and the Professor" (1970). Kim later had substantial recurring roles on the TV programs "James at 16" (1977) and "Hello, Larry" (1979). Richards achieved her greatest enduring fame as spunky psychic alien girl Tia in the terrific Disney family feature Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and its equally solid sequel Return from Witch Mountain (1978). Kim was likewise memorable as an obnoxious little brat who gets brutally killed in John Carpenter's fantastic urban action cult gem Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Among the TV shows Richards has done guest spots on are "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (1954), "The Rockford Files" (1974), "Police Woman" (1974), "Little House on the Prairie" (1974), "Family" (1976), "Alice" (1976), "CHiPs" (1977), "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979), "The Love Boat" (1977), "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978), "Project U.F.O." (1978), "Magnum, P.I." (1980) and "Medical Center" (1969). Kim was reunited with her "Witch Mountain" co-star Ike Eisenmann for the hilariously horrible made-for-TV horror howler Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) (TV) (Richards did a delightful career interview for the recent DVD of this film). A very cute kid, Richards grew up to become a strikingly beautiful woman. Kim played more mature adult roles in the mid 80s movies Meatballs Part II (1984) and Tuff Turf (1985) in which Richards gives an especially sexy performance as a teenage gang leader's brash and enticing girlfriend. Richards took a hiatus from acting to raise her four children Brook, Whitney, Chad and Kimberly. After a regrettably lengthy absence from the big screen, Kim Richards made a welcome and triumphant comeback with a fine portrayal of Christina Ricci's bitter estranged mother in the excellent Black Snake Moan (2006). She's the sister of fellow actress Kyle Richards -- they appeared together in The Car (1977) as James Brolin's daughters -- and Kathy Hilton, who is the mother of Paris Hilton.

Older sister of Kyle Richards. Younger halfsister of Kathy Hilton.
Mother of Brooke Brinson and Whitney Davis.
Father: Ken, who died in 1998. Mother: Kathleen, or Kathy, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in the same year. They separated in 1972.
Aunt of Nicky Hilton, Barron Hilton, Conrad Hilton, and Paris Hilton.Sister-in-law of Rick Hilton
Made her acting debut in a diaper commercial when only four months old.
Made 20 TV commercials before she was even four and a half years old.
Richards current boyfriend, Maine entrepreneur Todd Jason Voisine, has been instrumental in Richards' "comeback career" as she has begun appearing in public more frequently of late. They met in 2009.
Daughter of Kathy Richards and Ken Richards.

Her younger sister, Kyle, appeared in 19 episodes of Little House as Alicia Sanderson Edwards

(2001) Moved to Arizona to be with mother, who had breast cancer.
(2010) Appearing in "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" (2010)

Little House on the Prairie - One Episode
Town Party-Country Party -1974 - Olga Nordstrom Trying Her New Shoe Charles Made

THEN AND NOW

WITH HER SISTER KYLE

Kyle Richards, Born 11 January 1969, Hollywood, California.
Daughter of Kathleen and Ken Richards, Kathleen sadly passed away in March of 2002 and Ken in 1998 - the same year that Kathleen had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Kyle, like her sister Kim, began acting at a very young age. She made many appearances on "Little House on the Prairie" (1974) as Alicia Sanderson Edwards.

Kyle has four daughters: Farrah (from her previous relationship to Guraish Aldjufrie), and Alexia, Sophia and Portia from her marriage to real estate agent Mauricio Umansky.

Younger sister of Kim Richards. Younger half sister of Kathy Hilton.
Aunt of Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Barron Hilton, Conrad Hilton, Whitney Davis, and Brooke Brinson.
Sister-in-law of Rick Hilton
Starred in a short film, "Bunny Bunny Bunny," with Moon Unit Zappa and Lala Sloatman.
She has four daughters: Farrah, Alexia, Sophia, and Portia.
Daughter of Kathy Richards and Ken Richards.

Appeared in 37 titles of Movie and TV shows. 21 Episodes of ER from 1998 – 2006.
19 Episodes of Little House as Alicia Sanderson Edwards
Kyle in Remember Me - 1975 - As Alicia Sanderson
Bottom of Photo


KYLE IN "REAL HOUSEWIVES"