David's Little House Star Profiles and Trivia

Chuck Hayward was an American stuntman, long associated with John Wayne, who doubled for most of the great Western and action stars of the 1950s-1980s. His parents, Bert and Hazel Hayward, were cattle ranchers on a farm near Hyannis, Nebraska, about sixty miles east of Hayward's birthplace in Alliance. Born in January of 1920, he spent his early youth working cattle, then, at 16, left home to join the rodeo circuit as a bronc rider and horse trainer. In 1947, he arrived in Los Angeles and sought work as a wrangler. He began doing stunts in 1949 on The Fighting Kentuckian (1949), doubling John Wayne. The two became pals and Hayward subsequently stunted and doubled Wayne on nearly two dozen of the latter's films. Excelling at all sorts of horseback stunts, Hayward doubled most stars of the period who found themselves in Westerns or otherwise astride a horse, including Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Rod Steiger, Jeffrey Hunter and Gregory Peck. He rode a falling horse named Twinkle Toes.

He graduated into stunt coordination, arranging the stunts on films such as The Deadly Companions (1961) and the TV series "The Rat Patrol" (1966). He played small roles in numerous films and TV shows, and his appearance often served as an accurate predictor of an upcoming fight scene. He retired from stuntwork in 1981, and from acting in 1989. Hayward was a member of the unofficial "John Ford Stock Company," a lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures and an inductee into the Stuntmen's Hall of Fame.

He died from Hodgkin's disease at his home in North Hollywood, California, in 1998 at 78 years of age.

He performed stunts and acted in over 180 productions.
John Wayne Movies that Chuck performed stunts in included:

Rooster Cogburn(1975) (stunts) (uncredited) .... Jerry
The Train Robbers (1973) (stunts) (uncredited)
Big Jake (1971)(stunts) (uncredited)
Rio Lobo (1970) (stunts) (uncredited)
Chisum (1970) (stunts) (uncredited)
True Grit(1969) (stunts) (uncredited)
The War Wagon(1967) (stunts) (uncredited).... Blacksmith
El Dorado (1966) (stunts) (uncredited)
The Sons Of Katie Elder (1965) (stunts) (uncredited)
McLintock(1963) (stunts) (uncredited)
How The West Was Won (1962) (stunts) (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962) (stunts) (uncredited)
The Comancheros(1961) (stunts) (uncredited)
The Alamo(1960) (stunts) (uncredited).... Tennessean
The Horse Soldiers (1959) (stunts) (uncredited)
The Wings of Eagles(1957) (stunts) (uncredited)
The Searchers(1956) (stunts) (uncredited).... Man at Wedding
Hondo(1953) (stunt double: John Wayne) (uncredited)
Rio Grande(1950) (stunts) (uncredited)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949) (stunts) (uncredited)
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) (stunts) (uncredited)

Was In One Little House Episode
The Big Inning – 1975 - Cosby - Camera Right

Ah, the things you never notice............................

Elizabeth "Beth" Howland was born on May 28, 1941 in Boston,Massachusetts. She is an American actress who has worked extensively on stage and television. Howland is best known for playing Vera on the sitcom Alice, inspired by the popular Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Howland also originated the role of Amy in the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Company, in which she introduced the challenging, fast-paced patter song "Getting Married Today."

Howland is an only child born to Roman Catholic parents. She attended a Catholic school as a young girl and became interested in acting and dancing with encouragement from one of the nuns. At the age of 16, she left home and followed a dancer friend to New York City.
From November 6, 1961, to 1969, she was married to character actor Michael J. Pollard, with whom she has a daughter named Holly. She is currently married to actor Charles Kimbrough, an actor of Broadway and Murphy Brown fame. Kimbrough and Howland appeared together in Company.

After a time of struggling, Howland made her Broadway debut in 1959 as Lady Beth in the Carol Burnett musical Once Upon a Mattress. She went on to have roles in the musicals Bye Bye Birdie, High Spirits, Drat! The Cat!, and Darling of the Day.

She can be seen dancing and singing in the chorus of Li'l Abner (1959) as a Dogpatch wife, alongside future television star Valerie Harper. She is especially visible in the number "Put 'Em Back the Way They Was".

After appearing in Company, Howland left the New York stage to relocate to the West Coast, where she gave guest appearances on television series such as Love, American Style, Cannon, The Rookies, Bronk, Mary Tyler Moore (in one episode she played Mary's friend, Linda Foster alongside the late Bert Convy), Little House on the Prairie, Fantasy Island, and others. For her work on Alice, Howland received four Golden Globe nominations.

While she was on Alice, she made regular guest appearances on several series, including Eight Is Enough and The Love Boat. She also took on numerous telefilm roles, including You Can't Take It with You (as Essie), Working (singing, "Just a Housewife") and A Caribbean Mystery.
She remained on Alice in 202 episodes throughout its nine seasons. After the show ended in 1985, Howland went into semi-retirement. She made occasional guest appearances (including Murder, She Wrote, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and The Tick) and starred in the telefilm Terrible Things My Mother Told Me.

She acted in a total of twenty three titles from 1959 through 2002.

She died at age 74 on December 31, 2015 in Santa Monica, California, USA. (Cancer)

One Little House Episode
The Pride of Walnut Grove – 1976
She Was The Clerk That Greeted Mary Before Her Test

As "Vera" on Alice (Camera Left)

Judson Pratt was born in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1941, he made his Broadway debut in the play Popsy. The play closed after two days. In 1950, Pratt made his television debut on Armstrong Circle Theatre. Throughout the rest of the decade, he had guest roles on numerous television shows including Shadow of the Cloak, Have Gun – Will Travel, Kraft Television Theatre, Westinghouse Studio One, Men of Annapolis, The Web, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theater, The Donna Reed Show, and Riverboat.

In 1951, Pratt made his film debut in an uncredited role in the 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film I Confess. In 1956, he co-starred in The Toy Tiger, starring Jeff Chandler, Outside the Law, and Somebody Up There Likes Me. From 1958 to 1959, Pratt had a recurring role on the syndicated Western series Union Pacific.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Pratt became a staple on television with appearances on a variety of series including Father Knows Best, Hotel de Paree, The Man from Blackhawk, Overland Trail, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Kondike, Bronco, Saints and Sinners, The Iron Horse, That Girl, Circle of Fear, S.W.A.T., Charlie's Angels, and The Quest.

He also made multiple appearances on Western series including This Man Dawson, Cain's Hundred, Laramie, Outlaws, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, Slattery's People, Daniel Boone, The Virginia. Pratt also had multiple roles on dramas and comedies including Bracken's World, Mayberry RFD, Kojak, Disney's Wonderful World, and Police Story.

In addition to his extensive work in television, Pratt also had roles in numerous film during the 1960s including The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960), Kid Galahad (1962), starring Elvis Presley, The Ugly American (1963), with Marlon Brando, Cheyenne Autumn (1964), and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969). In the 1970s, Pratt had roles in The Barefoot Executive (1971), Futureworld (1976), Vigilante Force, starring Kris Kristofferson and Jan-Michael Vincent. Pratt's final film role was in the 1978 drama film F.I.S.T., starring Sylvester Stallone. In the film, Pratt portrayed Stallone's character's attorney. Pratt made his final on-screen appearance a 1980 episode of Quincy, M.E..

Passed away in February of 2002 in Northridge, California. He was eighty five years old.

Was In One Little House Episode
The Long Road Home – 1976 – Sam Wallace
He Offered The Hauling Job To Charles and Edwards

Frank Ferguson was born December 25, 1899, in Ferndale, California.was an American character actor with hundreds of appearances in both film and television.

Ferguson's best known role was as the ranch handyman, Gus Broeberg, on the CBS television series, My Friend Flicka, based on a novel of the same name. He appeared with Gene Evans, Johnny Washbrook, and Anita Louise. At this time, Ferguson also portrayed the Calverton veterinarian in the first several seasons of CBS's Lassie.

In 1952, he had an uncredited role as a jailer in the film Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair.
Even before My Friend Flicka and Lassie, Ferguson appeared in five episodes as "Murdock" in the 1953-1954 ABC sitcom, The Pride of the Family, starring Paul Hartman, Fay Wray, Natalie Wood, and Robert Hyatt.[1] He also appeared in an episode of Jackie Cooper's NBC sitcom, The People's Choice.

Ferguson portrayed Judge Roy Bean, justice of the peace in Langtry, Texas, in the 1959 episode "Law West of the Pecos" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston. The Judge Bean role had been filed in an earlier syndicated western series by Edgar Buchanan. In the Colt .45 episode, Lisa Gaye portrayed June Webster, and Douglas Kennedy was cast as Jay Brisco. Ferguson had also appeared as Todd Slater in the 1958 Colt .45 segment, "Rare Specimen".
On June 3, 1961, Ferguson was cast as Governor Lew Wallace of the New Mexico Territory in "The Great Western" of the NBC western series, The Tall Man, starring Barry Sullivan as Sheriff Pat Garrett and Clu Gulager as Billy the Kid. In the story line, as Wallace visits Lincoln, New Mexico, Sheriff Garrett tries to keep down brawling in the cantina owned by Big Mamacita (Connie Gilchrist), who is the grandmother of the governor's young aide.

Ferguson played three different characters on The Andy Griffith Show, two different characters on Petticoat Junction, four different characters on Bonanza, four different characters on Perry Mason (including three episodes as a sheriff), and four different characters on the ABC/WB western, Maverick. He guest starred on other series, including the syndicated Rescue 8, Whirlybirds, and The Everglades; NBC's The Restless Gun, Riverboat, Overland Trail, National Velvet, and Mr. Novak; ABC's The Rifleman, The Alaskans, Target: The Corruptors, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and CBS's General Electric Theater (hosted by Ronald W. Reagan), and The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun. Ferguson appeared twice in 1956 as Henry Murdock (a name similar to his character in The Pride of the Family) on the syndicated western-themed crime drama, Sheriff of Cochise.

He guest starred in all three of Rod Cameron's crime series, City Detective, (1955), State Trooper (in the 1957 episode "No Blaze of Glory", the story of a presumed arson case with a surprise ending, with Vivi Janiss as his wife) and COronado 9 (1960). He was a guest star in the final season of ABC's Leave It to Beaver sitcom in 1963.

Ferguson played the role of Eli Carson in the primetime ABC serial Peyton Place and reprised the role in the later daytime version Return to Peyton Place.

He died in September of 1978 in Los Angeles at 78 years of age.

One Episode of Little House
The Long Road Home – 1976 – Calder
Wheat Buyer

Andy Griffith Show - Talking To One of Rob's Friends

Good ol' Charley Foley! The Butcher of Mayberry!

Kevin Hagen, born in April of 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, to professional ballroom dancers, Haakon Olaf Hagen and the former Marvel Lucile Wadsworth. When Haakon Hagen deserted his family, he was reared by his mother, grandmother, and aunts. As a 15-year-old, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where one of his aunts had taken a teaching job. His family returned to Chicago, but he spent a year in law school at the University of California, Los Angeles, after having attended Oregon State University in Corvallis and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, from which he had received a degree in International Relations. Subsequently employed by the U.S. State Department in West Germany (since Germany), he then served a two-year stint in the United States Navy. For a time he taught ballroom dancing, the specialty of his parents, for the Arthur Murray Company. Then, at the age of twenty-seven, he tried acting. He was spotted in a production of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and given a guest-starring role on the classic 1950s police series Dragnet, starring Jack Webb.

Hagen began to work steadily in television and film. His first regular role on a series was in 1958 in the CBS cult western Yancy Derringer, starring Jock Mahoney in the title role. Hagen played John Colton, the city administrator of New Orleans, c. 1868. At the beginning of each episode, Colton asks Derringer to halt some threat facing the city; at the end of each segment, he arrests Derringer for breaking the law to solve the crisis. From 1969 to 1970, Hagen appeared in nine episodes of Land of the Giants in the role of Inspector Dobbs Kobick.

Hagen guest starred seven times on Gunsmoke, six times on The Big Valley, five times each on Bonanza, Laramie, and Have Gun - Will Travel, and four appearances on Mannix and The Time Tunnel.

Other appearances included Bat Masterson, Riverboat, Wagon Train, Outlaws, Straightaway, GE True, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Twilight Zone, in the episode "You Drive", and Daniel Boone. Mission: Impossible, Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, The Rifleman, Lancer, The Virginian, The Guns of Will Sonnett, The Cowboys, Lost in Space (as the alien in the episode "His Majesty Smith"), Perry Mason, Simon and Simon, and Knots Landing.
But he considered his big break the role of a Confederate soldier who kills James Stewart's son and daughter-in-law in the 1965 film Shenandoah.

His most famous role was one of his most pleasant, as kindly Doc Baker on Little House on the Prairie. He played the part from 1974 to 1983 as well as in a one-man show, A Playful Dose of Prairie Wisdom. He was in 113 episodes of Little House and all three made for TV movies.

In 1992, he moved to Grants Pass in Josephine County in southwestern Oregon, and continued his acting career. In 2004, he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

He was married to actress Susanne Cramer until her death in 1969. At his death, Hagen left a widow, Jan, his fourth wife whom he met in 1993, and a son, Kristopher. He was 77 years old.

As Doc Baker In "Home Again" Opposite Matt Labyorteaux

Much Younger Kevin Hagen In
"The Rifleman" Early Sixties

One of the Fine Cures Available in the 1880''s. Wonder if Doc Baker Ever Recommended
This One?

Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor was born January 12, 1925 in Glendale, California. She passed away on November 13th, 2018 at the age of 93.    She had been living at the Motion Picture Fund Long Term Nursing Care facility in Woodland Hills, California, when she died.

Birth Name Dorlee Deane MacGregor. She was an American television actress. In the 1940s she was hired by the Arthur Murray Dance Studios in New York City as a dance instructor. She is best known for her comic performance as Harriet Oleson from 1974 to 1983 on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie.

Mrs. Oleson was at the same time both onerous and endearing to children and adults alike, as audiences watched her character practice self-aggrandizement, usually to her own detriment. In 1979, thanks to the popularity of "Little House" and of her character in particular, MacGregor was invited to appear on Spanish Television's 625 Lineas program. After Little House on the Prairie, Katherine MacGregor withdrew from screen productions in favor of local theater. She also dedicated herself to her Hindu religion, and to teaching acting to children at the Wee Hollywood Vedanta Players.

Beginning in the 1950s, Katherine MacGregor worked in theatre on and off Broadway, and earned the part of 'a longshoreman's mother' in Elia Kazan's film, On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando. MacGregor also appeared in numerous episodes of Ironside, Mannix, Emergency! and East Side/West Side, as well as the 1981 "Heros vs Villains" episode of Family Feud hosted by Richard Dawson.

She was briefly married to actor Bert Remsen. He passed away in April of 1999.


Scottie MacGregor appeared in 153 episodes of Little House.

My personal opinion of her is that she is a brilliant actor. I despised her character at times, loved her at other times, and laughed like crazy when she did her comical scenes. I believe that her best moment on Little House was when she adopted Nancy, sitting outside her door trying to convince her to eat. It was a piece of brilliant acting and vintage Scottie MacGregor. No matter what you think of Mrs. Oleson, Little House on the Prairie would not have been the same without her. Watching her develop that character throughout the nine years of the show was a sheer delight!
Dave

"The Reincarnation of Nellie"
Talking To Nancy

What a Pair!

Guy Raymond was born in July of 1911 in Manhattan, New York. He appeared in sixty one titles, in both television and movies during an acting career that lasted from 1954 through 1980. They included Gypsy, Route 66, Hazel, Gunsmoke, Maverick, Peyton Place, Maude, The Virginian, and Green Acres to name a few. His last appearance was on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color in “The Ghosts of Buxley Hall” in 1980.

He passed away in January of 1997 in Santa Monica, California. He was 85 years old.

One Little House Episode
The Long Road Home – 1976 – Conductor

In The “Undefeated”
With John Wayne - 1969

Maya Van Horn was born in December of 1926 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She acted in twenty three titles from 1946 through 1974. She played Countess De Grenier in Dragonwyck in her 1946 debut. Other appearances included The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, The Third Man, Combat, The Fugitive, Please don’t Eat The Daisies, and The Girl From U.N.C.L.E..

She died in December of 1983, eighteen days before her 87th birthday.

Her last acting appearance was on Little House On The Prairie in 1974.
Town Party-Country Party – Helga Nordstrom
Opposite Kim Richards

In "Lady Godiva of Coventry" - 1955

Rayford Barnes, born in October of 1920, was an American film and TV character actor from Whitesboro, Texas who appeared in films, mainly westerns, such as Hondo, The Young Guns, The Burning Hills, The Wild Bunch, Fort Massacre, and Cahill U.S. Marshal. He also appeared in the 1955 comedy Bowery to Bagdad.
Barnes also appeared on dozens of TV series most notably The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp in which he portrayed Ike Clanton. Other series he appeared on include Father Knows Best, Highway Patrol, The Untouchables, Maverick, Have Gun - Will Travel, The Twilight Zone and Gunsmoke. His final role was on the NBC medical drama ER in 1996.
He lived in Santa Monica, California, with his long-time companion, Debbie. He often spoke about his movie making experiences with John Wayne, of whom he had great admiration. He had a younger brother, Lou Dupont, who was also an entertainer. Barnes died in Santa Monica, California on November 11, 2000 at age 80.

[b]He Was In Two Little House Episodes
The Bully Boys - 1976 as Bert Henderson
Centennial -1975 - as Taylor

Centenniel - Bought Yuli Pyatakov's House

The Bully Boys - Bought Lumber from The Bully's

In The Movie "The Wild Bunch"

Valerie June Carter Cash was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedian and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. She played the guitar, banjo, harmonica and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009. She was ranked No. 31 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music in 2002.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle Addington Carter and Ezra Carter in June of 1929. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter Family from the age of ten, beginning in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell)—Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively—known as "The Virginia Boys," joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for "Red Star Flour", "Martha White," and "Thalhimers Department Store", just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent—comedy. A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural born clown, if there ever was one." She attended John Marshall High School during this period.

After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, TN, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.

In 1949, Maybelle & The Carter Sisters, along with their lead guitarist, a young Chet Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.

June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name The Carter Family for their act during the 1960s and 1970s.
With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce.

While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist and humanitarian. Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1997), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. June was also "Momma James" in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James.

As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s like "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs. She won a Grammy award in 1999 for her solo album, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, was released posthumously in 2003 and won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches," "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea," "Temptation" and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower".

Her autobiography was published in 1979, and she wrote a memoir, From the Heart, almost 10 years later.

Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children would go on to have successful careers in country music.

She was married first to honky-tonk singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together they wrote "Time's A-Wastin'". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, aka Carlene Carter, a country musician.

June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player, police officer, and race car driver, on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosanna Lea aka Rosie, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie Nix Adams was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie died on a bus from possible carbon monoxide poisoning.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario, Canada. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter and producer.

In 1970, Carter's distant cousin, future U.S. President Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetime. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin, with whom they shared a common patrilineal ancestor.

Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974 the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.

Carter and her future husband, Johnny Cash reached No. 2 on the US Country charts with their 1967 duet of "Jackson". Their performance won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance Duet, Trio or Group.

The two — now married — won the 1971 Grammy Award, for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, for their 1970 duet "If I Were a Carpenter".

Carter Cash won the 2000 Grammy Award, for Best Traditional Folk Album, for her 1999 album Press On. The album was a top 15 success on the Americana Chart.
Carter Cash's last album, Wildwood Flower, was released posthumously in 2003. Carter Cash won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album, and she also won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the single "Keep on the Sunny Side".

June Carter was played by Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line, a 2005 biopic of Johnny Cash (played by Joaquin Phoenix). The film largely focused on the development of their relationship over the course of 13 years, from their first meeting to her final acceptance of his proposal of marriage. Witherspoon performed all vocals for the role, singing many of June's famous songs, including "Juke Box Blues" and "Jackson" with Phoenix. Witherspoon won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in the role.

June Carter Cash died in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 15, 2003, of complications following heart-valve replacement surgery, in the company of her family and her husband of 35 years, Johnny Cash. At Carter's funeral, her stepdaughter, Rosanne Cash, stated that "if being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a CEO. It was her most treasured role." June and Johnny Cash are buried in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near their home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Musician and actress Jewel is set to portray June Carter Cash in a Lifetime television movie called The June Carter Cash Story which is due to air in 2013. The film will be based on John Carter Cash's memoir.

One Little House Episode
The Collection – 1976 – Mattie Hodgekiss

Johnny and June Carter Cash

Jim Boles was born in February of 1914 in Lubbock, Texas. He broke into television in its infant stages on such programs as Captain Video and His Video Rangers in 1949, Tales of Tomorrow, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Inner Sanctum and Jackie Gleason’s “The Honeymooners”. Throughout the next twenty eight years he appeared in 115 titles including Rawhide, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, The Big Valley, The Virginian and Marcus Welby M.D. to name a few.

Little House on The Prairie was among his last appearances before his death in 1977 at the age of 63. He was in three different episodes as three different characters. In “Journey Into Spring” he played the farmer that sold the turkey to Charles that Carrie eventually made into a pet. In “The Long Road Home” he warned Charles and Edwards about the danger of blasting oil. In “To See The World” he played the Bartender. One year after his appearance in “Journey Into Spring”, Jim Boles passed away in Sherman Oaks, California.

As Eldred The Bartender in "To See The World" - 1975 - (Far Right)

As Garvey in "The Long Road Home" - 1976

As Brewster in "Journey Into Spring" - 1976

Michael Rougas, born in January of 1931 in Connecticut, made his film debut playing Frank in the 1957 cult horror favorite I Was a Teenage Werewolf. This film also featured TOS guest actor Whit Bissell.

Rougas had a bit part in the 1960 film Where the Boys Are, which featured Frank Gorshin. He then appeared in 1968's Ice Station Zebra, along with Jim Goodwin, Lloyd Haynes, Jonathan Lippe, and William O'Connell.

In the 1970s, Rougas appeared in such films as Airport (with Michael Bell, Whit Bissell, William Boyett, Celia Lovsky, and Dallas Mitchell), Zabriskie Point (with Paul Fix), Grand Jury (starring Bruce Davison), and The Great Santini (in which he and Michael Strong play colonels). In the 1980s, he had small roles in Brian de Palma's acclaimed gangster drama Scarface (starring F. Murray Abraham and Harris Yulin), Sidney Poitier's musical Fast Forward (with Robert DoQui), the comic thriller Into the Night (with Bruce McGill), and the horror sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (starring Craig Wasson).

Rougas appeared on several television series, as well. In 1976, he reunited with his I Was a Teenage Werewolf co-star Michael Landon for an episode of Little House on the Prairie. He later appeared on the prime-time soap opera Dallas (with Mary Crosby and Paul Sorensen) and the NBC drama series L.A. Law (starring Corbin Bernsen, in an episode with Robert Costanzo and Stanley Kamel).

In addition to his work on screen, Rougas had a successful stage acting career in the US West Coast. He also performed in Chicago for many years. He has written at least one play, a semi-autobiographical drama entitled Anatomy of Revenge, about a gay-bashing victim who seeks his own brand of vengeance. He also portrayed the lead role in the play, which ran 9 August–19 September 2004 in Chicago.

His last role was in "A Nightmare on Ellm Street 3: Dream Warriors" in 1987.

He died in June of 2008 in Palm Springs, California at 77 years of age.

It should be noted that Michael was the first victim of Michael Landon’s in “I Was A Teenage Werewolf”. The following is an interview Michael Rougas did in 2007 regarding his relationship with Michael Landon.

About my death scene in the woods...as originally shot, we see Michael (dressed in drag) in werewolf make-up - chasing me through the woods and forcing me up against a tree, screaming....fade out. The following day (the last day of shooting) we met to shoot the final club house scene - the scene ends with my leaving and take a short cut through the woods to go home. Michael saw the earlier rushes and told me he thought I was great...I had my doubts. When the producer, Herman Cohen, came on the set that final day of shooting I asked how the death scene went. He didn't answer and he walked away. An iceberg would have been a better friend. Later he called me into his office and told me they had to shoot the scene over. I thought it was my fault, that I had screwed up, and he told me that wasn't the case at all. He reminded me that when he hired me he told me that the death scene would be a solo bit. The scene would be all mine....the camera was to be the werewolf, following me though the woods, causing me to react to the camera as if it was the beast and then the camera closing in for the kill as I backed away screaming and pleading into a slow fade out. That is not the way it was originally shot and I'm glad I had a second chance because I think the scene plays better. Michael Landon was not there for the final shoot and he didn't see it until we had a sneak preview in Pomona or West Covina or somewhere around that area, and when he saw the movie he told me how much he loved my death scene - and the truth is he became a fan of mine. I was very flattered. The movie was scheduled to be shot in 8 days and went over budget when they had to reshoot the death scene. But the picture was an enormous success at the box office. It cost $300,000 to shoot and I'm told it took in over a million at the box office.
I saw Michael a few times after the sneak preview. I stopped by his house in Los Feliz. He worked out with his weights and did push ups and we talked for hours about our dreams and ambitions. I had finished touring in "Desk Set" with Shirley Booth and I was anxious to get back to my roots in New York City. I flew back and forth from L.A. to N.Y. more times than I can remember, but we would always manage to catch up with each other.. Eventually big things began to happen for him and we lost touch with each other. I remember feeling very happy for Michael and his enormous success.
Many years later I was touring with another play and when it closed and with no immediate plans I decided I would move to San Francisco. I played 2 months in San Francisco before getting the "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" job, and always felt I'd like to live there. And that's what I did for a year. Restless and without a rudder I found myself back in Hollywood. I got a job at Palm Restaurant, it had just opened and was an enormous success. Stars, producers, agents and directors were clamoring to get in, and I was in the thick of it. One night a waiter mentioned how well Michael Landon looked. I saw where he was sitting, and when I saw it would not be intrusive I went up and said hello. (This is no lie.) Michael jumped up and said where have you been? I've been thinking about you. I didn't go into any details, I know better than to go into details with dining guests. I excused myself and went to the back of the restaurant and sat and had a cup of coffee. In a short while Michael saw me sitting alone and came over and sat with me. He asked me what was going on? and I said what you see is what it is. He said if I wanted to get back in the business I should call him at his office at Paramount Studios. A few days later I called and his secretary said that Michael would get back to me. Within a week Michael had cast me in a 90 minute opening season special of "Little House on the Prairie". It was a very good part and I got very good billing. I was flown up to the location in a private plane and worked for 5 days. Michael was generous and kind. I have never known anyone who was as thoughtful and caring as he was. I started working again. A couple of years later I was working on "General Hospital" and an actor told me he was working with Michael on "Highway to Heaven". I asked where they were shooting and he told me. I drove out to Culver City hoping I could catch his eye. When the opportunity allowed I approached him and asked if he could get me a days work so that I could continue to cover my pension and welfare benefits. He came through and again was generous. When I got through with the scene he asked would that cover me, I said yes, and thanked him. He said we'll do it again. I personally believe that Michael was feeling the early signs of his illness. That was the last time I saw Michael..

One Episode Of Little House
The Hunters – 1976 – Dr. Canby

Michael as "Frank" In "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" 1957
His First Role and Michael Landon's First Starring Movie Role.

Helen Stenborg had a myriad roles on Broadway that ranged from the comically loopy Sarita Myrtle, an aged pyromaniac, in Noël Coward’s “Waiting in the Wings” to Rebecca Nurse, Arthur Miller’s personification of moral rectitude, in “The Crucible,” and who shared the acting life for more than half a century with her husband, Barnard Hughes.

Ms. Stenborg appeared mainly in supporting roles and could never be called a star, but as a Midwestern girl who dreamed of being an actress and became a successful one — not only working regularly on stage, in film and on television but also creating a theatrical family — she led an almost archetypal American life.

A Minnesotan of Swedish descent, she naturally brought to all her roles the kind of reserve that reflected her upbringing. Even as Sarita, the resident of an old actors’ home, in a performance nominated for a Tony Award in 2000, she evoked the character’s gleefully delusional nature in measured movements and expressions, never chewing the scenery.
On Broadway, her appearances included a 1975 production of “A Doll’s House” with Liv Ullman and Sam Waterston, and a 1995 production of “A Month in the Country” with Helen Mirren and F. Murray Abraham. In 1980 she played the dutiful wife of the lead character, a chilly, civil servant named Drumm, in “A Life” by Hugh Leonard, a follow-up to Leonard’s “Da,” a portrait of a maddening father that provided Barnard Hughes with his career-making role.
Ms. Stenborg shared the stage with her husband in “Waiting in the Wings,” one of many times they did so during their lives, and that same year both received Drama Desk lifetime achievement awards. Barnard Hughes died in 2006.

Ms. Stenborg was a member of the Circle Repertory Company, an Off Broadway troupe with which she performed in several of Lanford Wilson’s notable plays: “5th of July,” “The Hot L Baltimore” and “Talley and Son,” for which she received an Obie Award in 1986.
In 1997 she appeared as the demanding mentor of the protagonist (played by Kathleen Chalfant) in Margaret Edson’s play “Wit,” about a professor dying of cancer; before moving Off Broadway, the show was produced at the Long Wharf Theater in Connecticut, where Doug Hughes was then the artistic director.

Ms. Stenborg’s film credits include “Starting Over” (1979), with Jill Clayburgh and Burt Reynolds; Brian De Palma’s adaptation of “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990); and “Doubt” (2008), with Meryl Streep. On television she was seen in many dramatic series, including “L.A. Law,” “Spenser: for Hire,” St. Elsewhere” and “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
Helen Joan Stenborg was born in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, 1925. Her father, Ambrose, was a dentist. She wanted to be an actress from an early age, and her mother, Ida, helped her move to New York at 16 or 17.

She had some early success, landing roles in touring companies of popular Broadway comedies. During World War II, she performed with the U.S.O. in Europe; after the war she met her husband working in a show for wounded veterans.

In her final stage performance, Off Broadway in a two-handed dark comedy called “Vigil,” Ms. Stenborg played Grace, a woman on her death bed being harangued by her belligerently self-pitying nephew, played by Malcolm Gets. The year was 2009; she was 84.

“She radiates a warmth in her silence that is pleasantly welcoming,” Charles Isherwood wrote in The New York Times, “like a small but steady fire. By focusing your concentration on Grace’s gentle smiles and the encouraging twinkle in her eyes, it is almost possible to tune out the plaguing harangues of her persecutor.”

She passed away in March of 2011 in New York City. She was 86.

One Episode of Little House
Blizzard – 1977 – Betty Bowers (Left)

In Noël Coward’s “Waiting in the Wings”
On Broadway

Rules and recommendations For Stagecoach Travel


Service Class's
First class passengers paid the highest fare and were allowed to ride in the coach for the entire trip.
People in second class rode on top of the coach alongside the luggage and could be made to walk in rough places, narrow trails or muddy fields.
Third class passengers had the added burden of having to push the stagecoach uphill, if necessary.
Second and third class travelers were expected to disembark and help without complaint.

What To Take With You
Passengers for the long haul overland in coaches were given recommendations of equipment to be taken. For the earliest line that traveled through New Mexico Territory, the Jackass Mail, a San Diego newspaper suggested "one Sharps rifle and 100 rounds, a Colt [revolver] and two pounds of lead, a knife, a pair of thick wool pants, a half dozen pairs of thick socks, six undershirts, three overshirts, a wide-awake hat, a cheap sack coat, an overcoat, one pair of blankets in summer and two in winter, gauntlets, needles, pins, a sponge, hair brush, comb, soap, two pairs of thick drawers, and three or four towels." The later Butterfield line suggested passengers take a pistol or a knife.

Stagecoach travel was so popular that Wells Fargo was prompted to post rules for travelers in the 1800’s.

1.Abstinence from liquor is requested, but if you must drink share the bottle. To do otherwise makes you appear selfish and unneighborly.
2.If ladies are present, gentlemen are urged to forego smoking cigars and pipes as the odor of same is repugnant to the gentler sex. Chewing tobacco is permitted, but spit with the wind, not against it.
3.Gentlemen must refrain from the use of rough language in the presence of ladies and children.
4.Buffalo robes are provided for your comfort in cold weather. Hogging robes will not be tolerated and the offender will be made to ride with the driver.
5.Don't snore loudly while sleeping or use your fellow passenger's shoulder for a pillow; he or she may not understand and friction may result.
6.Firearms may be kept on your person for use in emergencies. Do not fire them for pleasure or shoot at wild animals as the sound riles the horses.
7.In the event of runaway horses remain calm. Leaping from the coach in panic will leave you injured, at the mercy of the elements, hostile Indians and hungry coyotes.
8.Forbidden topics of conversation are: stagecoach robberies and Indian uprisings.
9.Gents guilty of unchivalrous behavior toward lady passengers will be put off the stage. It's a long walk back. A word to the wise is sufficient.

Demise of The Stagecoach

The last American chapter in the use of the stagecoaches took place between 1890 and the late 1920s, when the road to Young, Arizona was paved and the stagecoach was replaced with a Ford motorcar. In the end, it was the motor bus, not the train, that caused the final disuse of these horse-drawn vehicles, and many "automobile stage companies" were established in the early 20th century. After the main railroad lines were established, it was frequently not practical to go to a place of higher elevation by rail lines if the distance was short

Pretty cool David.

Eddie Hice, born March 1, 1930, was a stuntman, stunt coordinator and second unit director whose work includes films such as all of the four Planet of the Apes films (1968, 1970, 1972, and 1973, with Lou Wagner, Paul Lambert, Nick Dimitri, James Gregory, Jeff Corey, and Gene LeBell), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982, with Richard Lynch, Anthony De Longis, Jeff Corey, Joseph Ruskin, and George Murdock), The Beastmaster (1982, with Rod Loomis, Tony Epper, Vanna Bonta, Diamond Farnsworth, Henry Carbo, Vince Deadrick, Tommy J. Huff, Freddie Hice, and Chuck Hicks), A View to a Kill (1985, with Walter Gotell), The 'burbs (1989, with Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson, Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, Jeff Smolek, and Brian J. Williams), RoboCop 2 (1990, with John Glover, Roger Aaron Brown, Gabriel Damon, Mark Rolston, Peter Weller, Galyn Görg, Jeff McCarthy, Robert DoQui, Stephen Lee, Tzi Ma, Bill Bolender, and Christine Ann Baur), Wild Wild West (1999, with Musetta Vander and Ian Abercrombie), and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005, with William Shatner, Faith Minton, Marcelo Tubert, L. Sidney, and Darlene Williams).

Star Trek: The Original Series, "Day of the Dove" and "Wink of an Eye", where he appeared as a security guard. Hice was also credited for his stunt work in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

He was the father of stuntman Freddie Hice and the grandfather of stuntwoman Cassidy Hice and stuntman Dylan Hice.

His resume also includes television series such as Gunsmoke (1964-1965), Get Smart (1966-1968), and Bret Maverick (1982).

Update 4-3-15 Eddie passed away on March 12th, 2015 in Sylmar, California. He was 85 years old.

One Little House Episode
Soldiers Return – 1976 – Roy Collins
He Appeared in Granville Whipple's Dreams

Eddie in an espisode of "Get Smart" (left)

Ever wonder who led Laura to the gallows in "The Music Box"?

Daniel Selby was born in Castro Valley, California, on June 3, 1965. His father was a hard-working professional in the manufacturing business in Oakland and his mother was a singer. Both supported Daniel in his desires to act. His mother helped him get started by enrolling him in acting and modeling schools across the bay in San Francisco in 1970. Daniel started modeling clothes for local stores such as Mervyns and The Gap and continued modeling until 1985. His first role was in "Love, American Style" (1969). He continued doing small roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s, even signing with a small record label in 1976, Davis Entertainment Group out of Los Angeles.

Starting in theater in the San Francisco bay area, Daniel has been featured in numerous theater performances such as Fruitcakes, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Lesson, Machinal, The Dancing Game and Murder at the Vicarage. With the help of his first agent Daniel transitioned from theater to film and television while living in Los Angeles.

A sampling of the 37 titles he appeared in from 1971 through 2013 are Apparition, Iowa, Nightmare Beach, Hell Town, Cagney and Lacey, Eight Is Enough, Emergency,The Partridge Family, Night Gallery and Police Woman.
Wrote a book in 1988 about his career in the entertainment business and about being a male anorexic for 20 years, titled "Voices from the Dust" (Now out of print)
Daniel lives in Iowa, where he continues to concentrate on stage, TV and film.


Was In One Little House Episode
The Music Box – 1977 – Winston (Uncredited)

In "Iowa" - 2012

Mitzi Hoag was born on September 25th of 1932 in New York City. In her thirty year career she has appeared in 72 titles, mostly in television. A sampling of them include Family Affair, Hawaii Five-O, Love American Style, 4 episodes of The Partridge Family, 12 episodes of We’ll Get By, The Rookies, The Facts of Life, Falcon Crest, The Waltons and Knots Landing. She worked for Michael Landon in Father Murphy and Highway To Heaven.

Update: Mitzi Hoag died on February 26th, 2019 in Sherman Oaks, California. (86 Years Old).

One Little House Episode
Election -  1977 – Ellen Dobkins
Elmer’s Mother

12 Episodes of We'll Get By as Liz Platt - 1975

I knew she looked familiar! I've seen her on the "Partridge Family" but never realized it was the same person who played Elmer's mom!

Dermott Downs was born in May of 1962 in Los Angeles County, California. He has had a varied career since his first acting role in 1972 in a TV movie titled “Here Comes The Judge”. Some of his acting roles included Eight is Enough, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, The Lonliest Runner, Escape To Witch Mountain, and an episode of ABC Afternoon Special. Since 1992 he has directed ten titles, produced two and worked in the camera and electrical end of the business in ten productions. He was the Director of Photography in both CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.

He was in one Little House episode in 1977, “Election”, an episode far ahead of its time that dealt with bullying. He played Kenny Bagby, one of the bullies that harassed Elmer Dobkins. Elmer was portrayed in a brilliant performance by Eric Olson.

Left To Right- Dermott Downs, Eric Olson, John Herbsleb

Downs directing an episode of Criminal Minds in 2012.


John Herbsleb, born in December of 1961 in Los Angeles, acted in five titles in a short two year acting career. They included Captains and Kings, Duffy, The Fitzpatricks and Baretta.
He Played Joel Turner in "Election"
In Later Years

Barbara Cason, born in November of 1928, In Memphis, Tennessee, was a prolific actor beginning in 1969 during a twenty one career that lasted until 1990. She was married to Dan Patrick, also an actor. She appeared in fifty four titles. Probably best known for her role in the Gary Shandling Show as Ruth Shandling. Her husband appeared as a love interest in one episode of it.

Some of her appearances included Murder She Wrote, Silver Spoons, Dallas, Cagney and Lacey, Lou Grant, Mork and Mindy, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, The Waltons and House of Dark Shadows to name a few.

Died in June of 1990 in Los Angeles. She was sixty one. Heart Attack.

One Episode Of Little House
Gold Country Part One – 1977 – Nellie The Saloon Girl

Husband - Dennis Patrick

Bernard Behrens was born in London, England in September of 1926.
He provided the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the NPR radio dramatizations of "Star Wars" (1981), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1983), and "Return of the Jedi" (1996).
Was a child evacuee at the onset of World War II and spent several years with a foster family.
Acted on stage in Britain (Bristol Old Vic) and Canada (Toronto Crest Theatre, Canadian Players, Neptune theatre Halifax).

He appeared in 116 productions, mostly television, from 1961 through 2010. He died in September of 2012 at the age of 85 in Canada.

Was In One Little House Episode
Creeper of Walnut Grove – 1977 – Bailey Farrell
Timothy’s Father Played By Johnny Doran
Far Left Sitting

In Galaxy of Terror - 1981

What was that stuff the Oleson's used in "The Campout" to stop the itching? Probably cornstarch..............Oatmeal was another common remedy.

Another remedy was calamine lotion.. When you came home with poison ivy, or broke out into painful, itching chickenpox blisters, grandma dragged out the familiar bottle of the pink stuff and daubed it on the problem areas.

Calamine lotion has evolved to ease itching and rashes since the 1830s.

Love this episode!