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The First Casualty: Directed by Harry Harris. With Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Will Geer, Judy Norton. Curt is called to serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and Walton's Mountain receives its first war casualty when G.W. is killed in a training exercise.
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- Drama, Family, Romance
- Harry Harris
- 1977-11-10
Jul 13, 2024 · DOB. Notable Roles. Michael Learned. April 9, 1939. Nurse Mary Benjamin in Nurse, Mrs. Wilk in Scrubs. Michael Learned plays Olivia Daly Walton on The Waltons, John Sr.'s patient and loving wife, and the confidant of many of the younger characters in the series.
- Zachary Moser
Dec 10, 2021 · The cast of "The Waltons" featured a wide range of talent, including fresh-faced actors like Richard Thomas, Mary Beth McDonough, and Eric Scott as well as veteran actors such as Will Geer, Helen ...
Eric Scott (actor) Eric Scott (born Eric Scott Magat; October 20, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American actor whose best known role is as Ben Walton, which he first played in the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), and in the series it inspired, The Waltons. He was briefly married to actress Karey ...
- Congressional Beginnings
- It Was An Unexpected Hit
- Star Power
- They Shot It in Tinseltown
- Drinking Problems
- Grandma Walton’s Foul Mouth
- Ritter’s Way
- The Waltons’ Pecking Order
- After The Waltons
- Judy Norton Taylor’s Career Regret
“Squeaky clean” is one expression associated with The Waltons. And so it should be – after all, the show was reportedly made with a political audience in mind. As highlighted by Classic Country Music, star Kami Cotler (Elizabeth) gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times in 2012. According to her, “the story is that [CBS] did it to appease Congres...
To say the network wasn’t confident about The Waltons may be an understatement. Kami Cotler continues: “they put it against Flip Wilson and The Mod Squad”, thinking the competition might kill it off. In fact, The Waltons was a smash, going on to bag multiple Emmys. At the time, something called “the rural purge” was underway. The series put country...
An all-American saga needs an all-American lead. Initially, producers went big, approaching Hollywood heavyweight Henry Fondato play John Walton Sr. Fonda had a history with The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr. He’d previously starred in an adaptation of his book Spencer’s Mountain(1963). The acting legend looked at the script. His response? “What d...
Earl Hamner Jr. was the heart of The Waltons. He based the show on his own life, even down to the famous “Goodnight” sequenceat the end of most episodes. When it came to the real-life Walton’s Mountain, however, things get a little less wholesome. What looked like good, clean countryside was actually the famous Hollywood Hills. What would the Walto...
Alcohol was an unexpected ingredient in the mix. Ralph Waite liked a drink, though The Waltonswas responsible for getting him off the sauce. Speaking to Closer Weeklyin 2017, Judy Norton (Mary Ellen) recalled his words to the young cast. Sitting with them at the onscreen family’s table, Waite said: “I felt like such a fake”. Michael Learned spent h...
Esther Walton was the elder stateswoman of the family. Behind the scenes, however, actress Ellen Corby and Earl Hamner Jr. didn’t always see eye to eye. As written about by Wizzley, Corby “would take scenes and rewrite them to give herself twice as many lines”. After Hamner changed things back, she “would unleash a barrage of abuse, littered with e...
Mary Elizabeth McDonough (Erin) grew up making The Waltons. She became very unhappy over issues with her weight. Showbusiness led her to pursue a punishing health regime that took its toll. “When I was 15 I had an ulcer,” McDonough told Oprah in 2015. She added: “my hair started to fall out, I had these rashes on my head”. Her family and friends we...
As younger cast members revealed to Closer Weekly, things were tough on set. If you weren’t high up the cast list, you ended up at the bottom of the heap. Eric Scott (Ben), said he “never felt the studio appreciated us”. He and others struggled financially, just like their characters!
On another family-unfriendly note, key cast members went into the horror genre. Richard Thomas and John Ritter famously played the adult Bill and Ben in Stephen King’s It(1990). Ralph Waite was a Presbyterian minister in real life. He had the religious frighteners put on him as ill-fated priest Reverend Balthus, in the cult series Carnivàle(2003-20...
In 1985, when she was 27, Norton chose to make a break from her Waltons persona. The actress, who was best known for playing the eldest daughter Mary Ellen Walton, surprised fans when she appeared in an issue of Playboy. Norton later came to regret the decision because it took everyone’s attention from her acting career. “I think it was one of thos...
Learn more about contributing. Edit page Add episode. The Waltons: Created by Earl Hamner Jr.. With Jon Walmsley, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott, Kami Cotler. The life and trials of a 1930s and 1940s Virginia mountain family through financial depression and World War II.
The Warrior: Directed by Ralph Senensky. With Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Will Geer, Judy Norton. An elderly Indian and his grandson visit the mountain to find their family burial ground.
