David's Little House Star Profiles and Trivia

She hasn't changed a whole lot in looks. Very pretty.

Patricia Neal (January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010)

After moving to New York, she accepted her first job as understudy in the Broadway production of The Voice of the Turtle. Next she appeared in Another Part of the Forest (1946), winning the 1947 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, in the first ever presentation of the Tony awards.
In 1949, Neal made her film debut in John Loves Mary. That year, Ronald Reagan was her co-star in The Hasty Heart. Her appearance the same year in The Fountainhead coincided with her on-going affair with her married co-star, Gary Cooper. By 1952, Neal had starred with John Garfield in The Breaking Point, The Day the Earth Stood Still with Michael Rennie and Operation Pacific, starring John Wayne. She suffered a nervous breakdown around this time, following the end of her relationship with Cooper, and left Hollywood for New York, returning to Broadway in a revival of The Children's Hour, in 1952. She also acted in A Roomful of Roses in 1955 and as the mother in The Miracle Worker in 1959. In films, she starred in A Face in the Crowd (1957) and co-starred in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).

In 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud, co-starring with Paul Newman. When the film was initially released it was predicted she would be a nominee in the supporting actress category, but when she began collecting awards, they were always for Best Leading Actress, from the New York Film Critics, the National Board of Review and a BAFTA award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Neal was reunited with John Wayne in Otto Preminger's In Harm's Way (1965), winning her second BAFTA Award. Her health took another turn in 1965, when she suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms during pregnancy, and was in a coma for three weeks. She was offered the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), but turned it down, feeling she had not recovered enough.
Neal worked sparingly in the following years. She returned to the big screen in The Subject Was Roses (1968), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.

She starred as Olivia Walton in the television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), which was the pilot episode for The Waltons. Her health issues did not get in the way of another strong performance, with Neal winning a Golden Globe for her performance. In a 1999 interview with the Archive of American Television, Waltons creator Earl Hamner said he and producers were unsure if Neal's health would allow her to commit to the grind of the weekly television series, which clarifies why she was not invited to reprise the role in the series (the part went to Michael Learned). Neal played a dying widowed mother trying to find a home for her three children in a moving 1975 episode of NBC's Little House on the Prairie.
In 2007, Neal worked on Silvana Vienne's innovative critically acclaimed art movie Beyond Baklava: The Fairy Tale Story of Sylvia's Baklava, appearing as herself in the portions of the documentary talking about alternative ways to end violence in the world. Also in 2007, Neal received one of two annually-presented Lifetime Achievement Awards at the SunDeis Film Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts. (Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider was the recipient of the other.)
Having won a Tony Award in their inaugural year (1947) and eventually becoming the last surviving winner from that first ceremony, Neal often appeared as a presenter in later years. Her original Tony was lost, so she was given a surprise replacement by Bill Irwin when they were about to present the 2006 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play to Cynthia Nixon. In April 2009, Neal received a lifetime achievement award from WorldFest Houston on the occasion of the debut of her film, Flying By. Neal was a long-term actress with Philip Langner's Theatre at Sea/Sail With the Stars productions with the Theatre Guild. In her final years she would appear in a number of health-care videos, including The Healing Influence.

IT IS HARD TO CALL PATRICIA NEAL A "GUEST STAR". SHE WAS A MEGA STAR IN HER DAY AND WAS A WONDERFUL ACTRESS.

ONE EPISODE - REMEMBER ME - 1975 - AS JULIA SANDERSON
TELLING CHARLES SHE'S GOING TO DIE

YOUNGER DAYS





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She was a diffent classic. Loved you on the Waltons and Little House. She saw so many trials in her life, but continued to act.

sHE WAS VERY pretty!!

All such cool facts i didn't know

so sad about David Huffman

I am sure all you Little House fans have seen Alden's Dilemma (1982) and Wave of the Future (1981). As you remember, in Alden's Dilemma, Almanzo and John Carter go to San Francisco and Almanzo gets his pocket picked helping an elderly lady across the street. It results in them not having a dime to do anything and literally had to walk back home between hopping freight trains.
In "Wave of The Future" there was a drunken lady posing as Mrs. Sullivan during the taking of the picture for advertising Mrs. Sullivan's Kitchens. Remember the chocolate cake?

Both the pick pocket and Mrs Sullivan were played by the same actress. Margaret Wheeler.

Born in 1906, she began her career in 1966 in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. She appeared in 32 titles in a 33 year career that ran thru 1999. Her appearances included The Jeffersons, Three's Company, Trapper John MD, Alice, Twilight Zone, Golden Girls, and two roles on Highway To Heaven in 1984-1985.
She passed away in February of 1999 at the age of 92.

SELLING CHOCOLATE CAKE IN "WAVE OF THE FUTURE"



SHORTLY AFTER LIFTING ALMANZO'S WALLET - "ALDENS DILEMMA"

Laurie Main
Date of Birth
29 November 1929, London, England, UK
Date of Death
8 February 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA,
Provided the voice of the "story reader" on many Disney Read-Along cassettes and compact discs.

Left Australia, aged 16, and acted in repertory theatre in England. On Broadway from 1959. The following year studied acting with Agnes Moorehead. Guest-starred on numerous TV shows of the 60's and 70's. Best known as host/narrator of Disney's "Welcome to Pooh Corner".

Appeared in over 88 productions during his career of 46 years. Some of them were:

1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Wedding Guest

1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)
MI-5 Man

1972The Partridge Family (TV series)
La Forge
Other appearances included The Monkeys, The Andy Griffith Show and McMillan and Wife.

He Was On One Little House Episode

Wave of the Future(1981)… Major Guffey - Revitalizing Harriet's Restaurant

John Anderson (October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992) .

Born in Clayton, Illinois, John Anderson grew up in Quincy and Adams County, Illinois.[1] Prior to a prolific acting career, Anderson served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II where he met artist Orazio Fumagalli who became one of his best lifelong friends.

He was known for several roles, including his recurring and best known role in MacGyver as Harry Jackson, MacGyver's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western series, including The Californians, Gunsmoke (twelve times), Robert Culp's Trackdown, The Rifleman (eleven times), The Virginian (six times), Laramie (five times), The Big Valley in various roles, Outlaws (twice as Simon Shaw), The Rat Patrol (four times, three as the same character), Perry Mason (three times), Overland Trail, The Legend of Jesse James, an eccentric farmer who jealously guards his prize watermelon with a shotgun in "For the Love of Willadean: A Taste of Melon," part of Disney's "Wonderful World of Color," [2] Man Without a Gun, Hawaii Five-O, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Virgil Earp. He portrayed Franklin D. Roosevelt in the popular TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House (1979). He portrayed the character Kevin Uxbridge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Survivors". Anderson played the role of Dr. Herbert Stiles in a series arc of CBS's Dallas.

A recurring Twilight Zone actor, he starred in four different episodes, "The Old Man in the Cave", "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville", "The Odyssey of Flight 33", and "A Passage for Trumpet". Standing 6'5½" tall (197 cm), he bore a strong resemblance to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, whom he portrayed three times. He was also the uncredited voice of Mark Twain in the Epcot attraction The American Adventure.
Anderson also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) as "California Charlie", the used car salesman who helps Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), and as Captain Bob Robertson on Emergency! in Season 4, Episode 16 "Smoke Eater".
Anderson also portrayed the Ebonite interrogator in the episode "Nightmare" of the original Outer Limits TV series.

He had over 238 acting performances.

One Little House on the Prairie
Amos Pike
Haunted House (1975)… Amos Pike - About To Catch Laura

Don Collier (born October 17, 1928) is an actor particularly known for his role in television westerns during the 1960s. He played U.S. Marshal Will Foreman in the 1960-1962 NBC series Outlaws, with Barton MacLane (1902–1969), Jock Gaynor (1929–1998), and Bruce Yarnell (1935–1973). He appeared as a deputy marshal to MacLane in the first season of Outlaws and was promoted to full marshal in the second season, with Yarnell as the new deputy. MacLane left the series after the first season.

Collier was born in Santa Monica, California. His only sibling, a sister, died when she was thirteen. After graduation from high school, Collier joined the United States Navy at the end of World War II. Upon his return to California, Collier obtained a part in the 1948 film Massacre River. The recipient of a football scholarship, he entered Hardin-Simmons University, a Baptist-affiliated institution in Abilene in Taylor County in West Texas. He transferred to Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he also played football.

Collier has made more than seventy film and television appearances. He starred with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Anthony Quinn, Dean Martin, Tom Selleck, James Arness, and Elvis Presley. After Massacre River, he acquired roles in Fort Apache (1948) and Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950).

Prior to his lead role in Outlaws, Collier appeared in the first seasons of both CBS's long-running Gunsmoke (1955) and NBC's powerhouse western Bonanza (1959). He guest starred in 1957 in NBC's Wagon Train with Ward Bond during its first year on the air. One of his earliest television appearances was in 1952 in the syndicated Death Valley Days anthology series later hosted by Ronald W. Reagan. He appeared in 1965 in Chuck Connors' NBC western series Branded.

From 1967-1971, he was cast as Sam Butler, the ranch foreman, in sixty-two episodes of NBC's The High Chaparral, a David Dortort series with Leif Erickson, Linda Cristal, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, and Henry Darrow. In 1972, he appeared in George Peppard's NBC series Banacek and in CBS's family drama, The Waltons.

In 1976, he guest starred in the initial season of Michael Landon's NBC family western drama, Little House on the Prairie. A decade later, he starred in the first season of Landon other NBC series, Highway to Heaven, with co-star Victor French.

Collier's cowboy image enabled him to win the designation of the "Gum Fighter" for Hubba Bubba bubble gum. In 1989, he accepted the recurring role of William Tompkins in ABC's The Young Riders, based loosely on the Pony Express (1860–1861). He has also been a sidekick of Fred Imus, younger brother of Don Imus, on Sirius Satellite Radio's weekly program, Fred's Trailer Park Bash, until Fred's death on August 7, 2011.

Has been a fixture here in Tucson for years, where he currently resides.\\

Update: Collier died Monday of lung cancer in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, friend and casting director Susan McCray (Little House on the Prairie) told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 92.



Was In Two Little House Episodes
– For the Love of Blanche (1983)… Sheriff
– The Runaway Caboose (1976)… Schultz

The Sherriff in "For The Love of Blanche"

– The Runaway Caboose … Schultz (Far Left)

Kelly Thordsen was an actor in over 112 productions, and chances are, if you heard his name, you wouldn't have a clue as to who he was. But if you saw him, you would know he was an actor.

Born in 1917, in Deadwood, South Dakota, he started his acting career in 1956 in a few movies and then moved on to television. Here are just a few out the many productions he appeared in.
The Virginian, Mannix, Here come the Brides, Cannon, Sanford and Son, Ironside, Mission Impossible, Rockford Files, Barnaby Jones, Adam 12, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Good Times, The Big Valley, The Rifleman, and the list goes on and on.

He passed away at the age of 61 in January of 1978 in Sun Valley,Ca.

He Was On Three Episodes of Little House
All As Baker McCay
School Mom - 1974
The Richest Man In Walnut Grove - 1975
Centenniel - 1976

Charles Dug The Ditch For Him
In "The Richest Man In Walnut Grove"

In "The Rifleman"

Robert F. Hoy, born in April of 1927 in New York City, was equally at home as a stuntman and as an actor. He appeared as Joe Butler on the acclaimed TV Western, The High Chaparral. He stunt-doubled for Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis, Robert Forrester, Ross Martin, Tyrone Power, David Jansen, Telly Savalas, Charles McGraw, Jay Silverheels and Abby Lane. His acting roles in many films include: Bite the Bullet, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Lone Ranger, Gambler II, Nevada Smith, Bronco Billy, The Enforcer, The Great Race, and TV shows such as Wanted Dead or Alive, Walker Texas Ranger, JAG, Dallas (recurring role), The Wild Wild West, Magnum P.I. (five episodes), The Young Riders, and Zorro. He was the 2nd Unit Director and Stunt Coordinator in Spain on the TV series Zorro and on the pilot of The Three Musketeers.

In his work as a stuntman, Bob specialized in horse work, although he was also called upon to double in fight scenes, do car work and handle high falls. The films in which lead actors and others were doubled for stunts are too numerous to mention but include: Operation Petticoat, The Defiant Ones, Spartacus, Tobruk, They Call Me Bruce, Saskatchewan, River of No Return, To Hell and Back, Drumbeat, Wings of the Hawk, and Revenge of the Creature From the Black Lagoon.

With stunt credits on more than 30 television series and twice that many features, there is no doubt that Bob earned his lifetime membership in the Stuntmen's Association, of which he is a founding member. He was also a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, Directors Guild of America, AFTRA, and the Screen Actors Guild.
Doubled for Charles Bronson, Audie Murphy, Tony Curtis, Tyrone Power and Robert Vaughn.
Served in the U.S. Marines
A close friend of late actor Charles McGraw,
Was the lead stunt man who doubled Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones (1958). Trained Sidney Poitier's stunt double, Ivan Dixon, in his first movie job.
Known for his natural ability with horses, he co-founded the Stuntmen's Assn. of Motion Pictures. He received the Golden Boot for his contributions to the western genre. He appeared in over 163 productions as an actor and stuntman from 1950 to 2007. He passed away on the 8th of February 2010 in, Northridge, California, USA.


Little House on the Prairie 3 Episodes
– No Beast So Fierce(1982)… Morgan
– The Runaway Caboose(1976)… Fireman
– To See the World(1975)… Ben Slick

In "No Beast So Fierce" About to Rob Charles and James
The Dog Had Other Plans

WHEW...You've been busy Dave....Good work. Some of these guys go WAY back!
I loved Don Collier as the Hubba Bubba man. When I was about 10 that was the only gum to chew. I would run down to the corner store and get a pack for a quarter.

Georgia Schmidt (26 August 1904 – 18 April 1997; age 92) was an actress who played the First Talosian in "The Cage", the first pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. Footage of her appearance would later be used for "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II".

Her additional television credits include The Monkees (1966, 1967, with Vic Tayback), The Wild Wild West (1967, with George Murdock, Perry Lopez, Michael Dunn, and Oliver McGowan), Family Affair (1971, with Brian Keith), The Odd Couple (1975, with Ed Peck), The Incredible Hulk (1981, with Charles Napier and Peter Mark Richman), and the TV movies A Killing Affair (1977, with Dean Stockwell, Morgan Farley, Stephen Parr, and John Mahon) and Terror at Alcatraz (1982, with Roger C. Carmel, Diana Muldaur, Elisha Cook, Jr., Michael Pataki, and Marc Lawrence).

She also had roles in the films House of the Damned (1963, with Felix Locher), The Andromeda Strain (1971, directed by Robert Wise, with Kermit Murdock, Michael Pataki, Joan Swift, Garry Walberg, and Bart La Rue), Kansas City Bomber (1972, with Stephen Manley), The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977, with Ray Walston), Goin' South (1978, with Ed Begley, Jr., Tracey Walter, and Christopher Lloyd), and Midnight Madness (1980, with Charlie Brill, John Fiedler, and Tom Wright).

Some of Her Last Appearances Were On Highway To Heaven

– The Last Assignment (1986) … Mrs. Caldy

– Highway to Heaven: Part 1 & 2 (1984) … Loretta

She Appeared in Three Little House Episodes.
Home Again 1 & 2 – 1983 – Adel Colie
Founders Day – 1975 – Mrs. Grandy
Country Girls – 1974 – Mrs. Grandy

You Probably Best Remember Her as Adel Colie, The Lady That Had The Sick Husband
Who Doc Baker Prescribed Morphine For That Albert Had Switched For Sugar in
"Home Again"

"HOME AGAIN" 1983 - PAYING DOC BAKER WITH A PIE


AS THE FIRST TALOSIAN IN STAR TREK - ORIGINAL SERIES

Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 – June 4, 1998) was an American actress.
She was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best-known for her role as "Mrs. Meade" in Gone with the Wind. Through her mother's connections, Hutchinson made her film debut at the age of thirteen in The Little Princess, starring Mary Pickford. She later attended the Cornish School of Music and Drama in Seattle, and then moved to New York City where she began acting in theater.
By the late 1920s she was one of the actors able to make the transition from silent movies to talkies.

Hutchinson married Robert W. Bell, a stage director, in 1924. In 1926, she met the actress Eva Le Gallienne and became a member of Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre company. By 1927, the two women were involved in a lesbian affair, and Hutchinson and Bell, who separated in 1928, were divorced in 1930. The press quickly dubbed her Le Gallienne's shadow, a term which at the time meant lesbian. Both actresses survived the scandal in those heady days and carried on with their respective careers.

Under contract with Warner Bros., Hutchinson went to Hollywood in 1934, debuting in Happiness Ahead. She was featured on the cover of Film Weekly on August 23, 1935 and appeared in The Story of Louis Pasteur in 1936.

At Universal she played Elsa von Frankenstein in one of her most memorable roles alongside actor Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein (1939). She later played "Mrs Townsend" in North by Northwest (1959) and Love is Better Than Ever, starring Elizabeth Taylor.

Hutchinson continued to work steadily through the 1970s in film, radio, and television, establishing a solid career in supporting roles. She appeared on, among other television programs, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason and Gunsmoke.
• Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935)
• Mountain Justice (1937)
• The Women Men Marry (1937)
• Son of Frankenstein (1939)
• My Son, My Son! (1940)
• Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
• Somewhere in the Night (1946)
• Cass Timberlane (1947)
• Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
• Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
• Ruby Gentry (1952)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
• Nevada Smith (1966)

She was also featured in many classic television episodes including four episodes of Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone's "I Sing the Body Electric", Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie. She created the role of Mamie Baldwin in The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971) which became the popular series The Waltons. Dorothy Stickney played her sister Emily. The Baldwin sisters were so generous by sharing their late Papa's "recipe". On the series the roles were played by Helen Kleeb and Meg Jenkins.

Her last appearance on television was on Little House
If I Should Wake Before I Die – Amy O’Hara Hearn - 1974

Her Mother, Leona Roberts, In "Gone With The Wind" 1939

Ruth McDevitt (September 13, 1895 – May 27, 1976) was an American stage, film, radio and television actress.

She was born Ruth Thane Shoecraft in Coldwater, Michigan. After attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she married Patrick McDevitt and decided to devote her time to her marriage. After her husband's death in 1934, she returned to acting. She performed on Broadway, in particular understudying and succeeding Josephine Hull in Arsenic and Old Lace and The Solid Gold Cadillac. She also worked as a radio actor.

McDevitt was a familiar face on television during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. She played "Mom Peepers" in the 1950s sitcom Mr. Peepers. She was a regular with Ann Sheridan, Douglas Fowley, and Gary Vinson in CBS's Pistols 'n' Petticoats, a 1966-67 satire of the Old West. The series attracted a good audience, but was cancelled two months after Sheridan's 1967 death from cancer. She was a series regular on Bright Promise from 1974–75, McDevitt also had a regular role as Emily Cowles on Kolchak: the Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin.

McDevitt guest starred in such series as Suspense, Cosmopolitan Theatre, Decoy, Westinghouse Studio One, The United States Steel Hour, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Andy Griffith Show, The Debbie Reynolds Show, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Mayberry R.F.D., I Dream of Jeannie, Here's Lucy, Bewitched, My World and Welcome To It, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Love, American Style, That Girl, Room 222, Nanny and the Professor, Mannix, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Little House On The Prairie, All in the Family, Phyllis, and The Streets of San Francisco. Her many made-for-television films include The Couple Takes a Wife, One of My Wives is Missing, In Search of America, The Cheerleaders, My Father's House, The Abduction of Saint Anne, Skyway to Death, Man on the Outside, and If I Had a Million.
Her film debut was in 1951's The Guy Who Came Back, followed by memorable roles in The Parent Trap (as camp counselor Miss Inch), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (as Mrs. MacGruder, the pet store saleslady), Love is a Ball, Boys' Night Out, Dear Heart, The Shakiest Gun in the West, Angel in My Pocket, The Love God?, Change of Habit, The War Between Men and Women, Mame, and Mixed Company. Ruth had a co-starring role in the dark horror comedy Homebodies, one of her final films.

McDevitt died, aged 80, in Hollywood, California. She is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

SHE WAS IN ONE EPISODE OF LITTLE HOUSE
AS MADDIE ELDER
If I Should Wake Before I Die (1974)
LAURA TRYING TO RUB HER STOMACH AND PAT HER HEAD AT THE SAME TIME


"THE BIRDS" 1963 ALFRED HITCHCOCK THRILLER - THE PET STORE CLERK
OPPOSITE TIPPI HEDREN



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Ted Gehring (April 6, 1929—September 28, 2000) was an American character actor. He was born in Bisbee, Arizona.

Gehring's extensive career in minor and supporting television roles began with the TV western, The Big Valley in 1965. Gehring's versatility in authority and antagonist roles, in addition to his gruff, sanguine appearance, provided him many other television guest roles in many genres, from westerns, science fiction, comedies, detective stories, spy stories, fantasy and more.

Gehring's prominent recurring television roles include a supporting role in the TV series Bonanza (starring Original Series actor Lorne Greene), Dallas and Little House on the Prairie.
Gehring appeared in many popular shows such as Star Trek ("Assignment: Earth"), Gunsmoke, B.J. and the Bear (created by Original Series executive producer Glen A. Larson), M*A*S*H, The Rockford Files, The A-Team (with Original Series star Dirk Benedict), and another Glen Larson show, The Fall Guy.

Gehring appeared in several TV miniseries, movies, and theatrical motion pictures, including The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981), The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Roots: The Next Generation, and as an auctioneer in the 1985 film, Murphy's Romance.
Gehring is one of the few actors who have appeared in both the original Battlestar Galactica and its spin-off, Galactica 1980. Gehring appeared as Croad in the Original Series episode, "The Long Patrol", and as a sheriff in the Galactica 1980 episode, "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II".

He also appeared on Highway To Heaven and Father Murphy Episodes.

Little House on the Prairie - 5 Episodes

– The Collection(1976)… Ebenezer Sprague
– For My Lady(1976)… Ebenezer Sprague
– At the End of the Rainbow(1975)… Ebenezer Sprague
– Ebenezer Sprague(1975)… Ebenezer Sprague
– Money Crop(1975)… Ed Stacy

LAURA MAKING FRIENDS WITH EBENEZER

IN BATTLESTAR GALACTICA AS "CROAD"

Dennis Dirk Blocker (born July 31, 1957 In Hollywood, Ca.) is an American actor and the son of late actor Dan Blocker, of the popular TV series, Bonanza.
Dirk Blocker began appearing in American television in 1974, acting in an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. at the age of sixteen. He has had guest roles in ER, Little House on the Prairie, The X-Files, Beverly Hills, 90210, Walker, Texas Ranger, Murder, She Wrote, Quantum Leap and CHiPs. Blocker was a regular on Baa Baa Black Sheep as one of the main pilots. He has also appeared in such films and TV shows as Short Cuts, Poltergeist, Pink Cadillac, Mad City, Trouble in Mind, Midnight Madness, M*A*S*H, Doogie Howser, M.D., Matlock, and Prince of Darkness. He has performed in over 63 programs on television.

He was still active as an actor thru 2009. His second appearance in a TV series was on Little House. He was in one episode.

School Mom - 1974 - Abel Makay

With Mike On The Set of School Mom - Dirk Was 17 Years Old

In Baa Baa Black Sheep as 1st Lt. Jerry Bragg - 36 Episodes 1976 - 1978

Queenie Smith (September 8, 1898 - August 5, 1978) was an American stage, television, and film actress.

Smith got an early start, being trained in ballet and dance and spent her teen years performing as a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Company in operas such as Aida, La Traviata, and Faust. By the 1920s she was a star on Broadway in shows such as Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Sitting Pretty (1924), and The Street Singer (1929), and by the mid-30s had made her way into films. She starred on Broadway in George and Ira Gershwin's musical Tip-Toes (1925). She costarred in the 1936 Universal Pictures film version of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, playing Ellie May Chipley. Smith replaced stage actress Eva Puck who had starred as Chipley in the 1927 premiere and 1932 revival of Show Boat.

In 1947 she appeared in the film The Long Night and then played other character roles on film, and later, television. She was seen as Jimmy Durante's wife in The Great Rupert, and in guest shots in many television shows, including The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, A.E.S. Hudson Street, Rhoda, Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Barney Miller, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Chico and the Man, McMillan & Wife, Love American Style, The Waltons, Here's Lucy, The Funny Side, Hawaii Five-O, The Monkees, The Odd Couple, The Love Boat, Maude and Little House on the Prairie (in a recurring role as "Mrs. Whipple").
Queenie Smith was a teacher and mentor to many a young actor. She taught at the Hollywood Professional School and was the Director for the training program at Melodyland Theater, Anaheim, California, during the 60's.

She worked right up until the year of her death; her last role being "Elsie" in the Chevy Chase/Goldie Hawn film Foul Play (1978).[1] She died of cancer a month before her 80th birthday.
Queenie was once engaged to Cary Grant!
She was 5' 1" Tall

She was in Five Little House Episodes – All as Amanda May Whipple
– To Run and Hide (1977)
– The Collection (1976)
– Soldier's Return (1976)
– The Richest Man in Walnut Grove (1975)
– Christmas at Plum Creek (1974)

IN "SOLDIERS RETURN" 1976

QUEENIE IN 1935

Robert Tessier was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in June of 1934.
Muscular, shaven headed actor & stuntman of Algonquin Indian descent who specialized in tough, villainous roles throughout US cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. Tessier had served time in the US Armed Forces seeing action in Korea as a paratrooper and earning both a Silver Star and a Purple Heart, and in addition was an accomplished motorcycle rider and circus stunt performer.

His movie breakthrough came at the age of 33, in the low budget Tom Laughlin biker movie The Born Losers (1967). With his menacing looks, Tessier was never short of on screen work, often turning up in several movies a year playing gang leaders, bikers & other murderous thugs. He appeared alongside 'Burt Reynolds' on three occasions in The Longest Yard (1974), Hooper (1978), and The Cannonball Run (1981). Alternately, he was equally busy on television appearing in popular shows including "Starsky and Hutch" (1975), "Magnum, P.I." (1980), "The Fall Guy" (1981) & "The A-Team" (1983). Undoubtedly, Tessier's most well remembered role was that of grinning, head butting street fighter "Jim Henry" in the Charles Bronson film Hard Times (1975).

He appeared in over 63 movies and TV shows before his death in October of 1990 from Cancer. His nickname was CUEBALL. He was an expert cabinet maker who often made pieces for his co-stars.

The musical score in this Little House, was in my opinion, one of David Rose's finest. A moving story about human beings rising to their finest in a time of need, no matter what the color of their skin.
One Little House on the Prairie Episode
Chief Jack Lame Horse
Survival (1975)

SAYING GOODBYE TO THE INGALLS AFTER SAVING EACH OTHER'S LIVES

CINDY MOORE - 20 EPISODES - NO INFO - NEVER DID ANOTHER ROLE

1.A Harvest of Friends (11 September 1974) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
2.The Love of Johnny Johnson (9 October 1974) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
3.Town Party-Country Party (30 October 1974) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
4.School Mom (13 November 1974) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
5.The Raccoon (20 November 1974) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
6.The Voice of Tinker Jones (4 December 1974) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
7.The Award (11 December 1974) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
8.Founder's Day (7 May 1975) - Tall Jump Roping Girl (uncredited)
9.Four Eyes (17 September 1975) - Tall School Girl (uncredited)
10.The Camp-Out (19 November 1975) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
11.The Gift (17 December 1975) - Cissy
12.The Talking Machine (14 January 1976) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
13.The Pride of Walnut Grove (28 January 1976) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
14.Troublemaker (25 February 1976) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
15.Little Girl Lost (18 October 1976) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
16.The Monster of Walnut Grove (1 November 1976) - Sarah
17.The Bully Boys (6 December 1976) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
18.Quarantine (17 January 1977) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
19.The Wisdom of Solomon (7 March 1977) - Tall Schoolgirl (uncredited)
20.The Election (21 March 1977) - Tall Schoolgirl in White Dress (uncredited)

20 EPISODES - TWO CREDITED ROLES - CISSY IN "THE GIFT" AND SARAH IN THE "MONSTER OF WALNUT GROVE"

IN "THE GIFT" AS CISSY

SITTING BEHIND HER SWEETNESS IN "THE MONSTER OF WALNUT GROVE" AS SARAH

A third generation performer, born in September of 1934 in Brooklyn, NY., Chuck McCann was already a show business veteran by age 11. By age 19, he had performed in nightclubs, made guest TV appearances, and was a semi-regular on The Steve Allen Show. Chuck's extensive career includes The Chuck McCann Show, Let's Have Fun Show, Little Orphan Annie, The World of Hans Christian Anderson, Herbie Rides Again, Men in Tights, Storyville. His credits also include creating, writing and starring in the popular children's shows Far Out Space Nuts, and Chuck McCann's Funstuff. Chuck now performs voices for several animated shows where he does the voices of Duckworth and The Beagle Boys for Ducktails, the series, and Ducktails: The Movie, Leatherneck on G.I. Joe, The Thing on Fantastic Four and Blizzard on Iron Man.

The son of a singing bandleader, McCann began his career as a child actor on radio. He performed on several NYC based radio programs. Before he went onto create his own stand up act performed at many NYC/NJ/LI nightclubs and on many popular TV variety shows. For a time he took a hiatus from nightclub and TV performing to study with The Pasadena Playhouse, where he gave a memorable performance in their production of '12th Night' as Sir Toby Belch. McCann would return to NYC to continue to perform in nightclubs and on TV variety shows. Until he was introduced to puppetry, first by Skip Boyland and then by 'Paul Ashley (I)' on NBC TV's: _ "Rootie Kazootie" (1950).

For the next 17 years, Ashley and McCann appeared on numerous TV shows: "Rootie Kazootie", "Uncle Paul's Lunchtime", "The Gumby Show!" with Pinkie Lee, "The Puppet Hotel!", "Laurel & Hardy & Chuck!", "Let's Have Fun!", "The Chuck McCann Shows", "The Great Bombo's Magic Cartoon Circus Lunchtime Show" and "Chuck McCann's Laurel & Hardy Show!". After the cancellation of the latter on Friday June 9, 1967, Ashley and McCann went their separate ways. McCann went onto become a successful comic/character actor and mimic, doing voice over for many TV cartoon shows and playing character parts on numerous dramatic and comedic TV series and movies. Paul Ashley used his puppets in industrial films and industrial stage shows.

McCann also starred on other TV series: _ "Turn-On" (1969)_"Happy Days" (1970), "Far Out Space Nuts" (1975), "All That Glitters" (1977), _"New Kind Of Family, A" (1979)_ and "Chuck McCann's Fun Stuff!". Ashley was slated to reunite with McCann for "LBS Children's Theater" and another TV puppet show "Tiny TV". But Ashley was forced to drop out both projects, when it was discovered that he was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and McCann took over as the show's host & Performer. "LBS Children's Theater" made its debut in September of 1983 and was on the air for one season. Paul Ashley never lived long enough to see "LBS Children's Theater" become a success, he died on September 3, 1984.

Chuck McCann passed away on April 8th, 2018. He died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

He has performed in over 134 movies and TV shows.

He appeared on one episode of Bonanza and one episode of Little House.
– The Voice of Tinker Jones (1974)… Tinker Jones
SHOWING SEAN PENN AND JIMMY MCNICHOL HOW TO KEEP
THE FIRE GOING

CHUCK TODAY

Eileen Ryan was born in October of 1927 in New York City, NY.
Children: Sean Penn, Chris Penn, Michael Penn
Spouse: Leo Penn who directed on Little House.

She appeared in the following titles during her acting career.
Movies
Collaborator (2011) as Betty
Mother and Child (2010) as Nora
All the King's Men (2006) as Lily Littlepaugh
Zodiac Killer (2005) as Venice Beach Victim
Feast (2005) as Grandma
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) as Gladys
I Am Sam (2001) as Estelle
Magnolia (1999) as Mary
Benny & Joon (1993) as Mrs. Smail
At Close Range (1986) as Grandmother of Brad Whitewood Jr.
Television
Project Greenlight 3 (as herself)
Without a Trace
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
NYPD Blue
ER
Matlock
Little House on the Prairie
Bonanza
The Twilight Zone

She appeared on One Little House Episode

"The Voice of Tinker Jones" in an Uncredited Role of Mrs Kennedy.


MOTHER OF SEAN PENN, SHOWN HERE WITH NELLIE AND WILLIE

Little house sure had some famous guest stars

And their stories are truly interesting. I idn't know most of them!

Vanesa.

Wayne Heffley, born July 1927, played Vern Scofield on Days of Our Lives, the stepfather and mentor of Jack Devereaux (Matthew Ashford). They worked together at the Salem Spectator and were often seen together, bickering and scheming, from 1988 to 2003. Their relationship provided comic relief and the occasional bit of pathos for the show. Vern dated Jack’s mother, Jo, later marrying her. He returned to the show for Jack’s ‘funeral’ and for Jack’s wedding to Jennifer in 2006.

In addition to his work on Days, Heffley also made appearances on other shows and in feature films. His lengthy career saw him straddling genres, appearing on everything from “The Twilight Zone,” to “Matlock” and from “Bonanza” to “Murder She Wrote.” In 1985, he even appeared on the Primetime soap “Santa Barbara” as the fire chief.
He started his acting career in 1952. Was on 20 episodes of Highway Patrol in the fifties. Was in over 117 titles in a career that ended with 16 appearance on Days of Our Lives in 2006. He was on dialysis for years. He died of kidney failure in 2008 at the age of 81.

Appeared in 4 Little House Episodes, all as Mr. Kennedy
– Founder's Day (1975)
– Money Crop (1975)
– Child of Pain (1975)
– The Voice of Tinker Jones (1974)

He was a mean one!! Makes you wonder if he could REALLY smile.
Dialysis would make anyone mad though. Its a tough way to try to live out your years.