Search results
The Children is a three-part thriller first shown on ITV on 1 September 2008. Starring Kevin Whately and Geraldine Somerville , and written by Lucy Gannon , the story focuses on the murder of an eight-year-old girl, who is found on the patio of her home, and the subsequent investigation to discover which one of the adults who cared for her could have killed her.
- Richard Thomas (John-Boy Walton) Thomas starred as FBI Special Agent Frank Gaad in The Americans between 2013 and 2016. More recently, he recurred as Deputy Director Van Cleef on NCIS: New Orleans and as Bodie Lord on Tell Me Your Secrets.
- Jon Walmsley (Jason Walton) This multi-instrumentalist has been focusing on his music career recently. In 2017, he released his first solo CD, Goin’ to Clarksdale, inspired by a trip to the Mississippi Delta as well as “the songs and artists I grew up listening to and the lyrics that have infused and often describe my own life journey,” as he explained on his website.
- Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton) Norton wrote and starred in the 2018 thriller Inclusion Criteria, alternatively titled Nowhere to Hide. And last year, she appeared opposite other former child stars—including Dean McDermott and Danny Pintauro—in the web series The Quarantine Bunch.
- Mary McDonough (Erin Walton) McDonough segued into a writing career post-Waltons. In fact, her book Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane became a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film of the same name, in which she had a supporting part.
- Jane Kenney
- David W. Harper (Jim Bob Walton) The youngest boy of the Walton family was also the most ingenious one as he once built a car from scratch. David’s acting career began with The Waltons and didn’t reach much farther beyond that, with one exception.
- Richard Thomas (John-Boy Walton) Richard left the series after the fifth season, but that was no reason to deter audiences everywhere from doting on him.
- Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton) The oldest daughter of the clan, Mary Ellen Walton, played by Judy Norton was universally loved. The Waltons changed her life forever and was a second family.
- Kami Cotler (Elizabeth Walton) Elizabeth Walton, the youngest child of the family, had some really huge acting prospects. Her talent was widely talked about and appreciated.
- Larry Hagman. While Larry Hagman did pursue other acting opportunities after the original Dallas series wrapped, his leading role as J.R. Ewing remained at the forefront of his career until he died at age 81.
- Ken Kercheval. After getting his start on Broadway, Ken Kercheval moved over to TV with cameos and soap opera roles in the mid-60s. He made it big on the small screen when he starred on Dallas as Cliff Barnes, the rival of J.R.
- Barbara Bel Geddes. Barbara Bel Geddes finished her acting career playing Dallas matriarch Miss Ellie Ewing. The actress retired from screens and stages in 1990, after 12 seasons on the CBS soap, and she died of lung cancer in 2005, at age 82.
- Patrick Duffy. Patrick Duffy played J.R. 's older brother Bobby Ewing, who was famously (and controversially) killed off and brought back one season later.
- 7 Alan Alda
- 6 Loretta Swit
- 5 Jamie Farr
- 4 Gary Burghoff
- 3 Mike Farrell
- 2 Jeff Maxwell
- 1 Odessa Cleveland
Age: 88 years
Alan Alda played Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce for all eleven seasons of M*A*S*H, and he was the only actor to appear in all 256 episodes.He won five Emmy Awards for his work on the show, and he has remained a well-known and successful actor to this day. Most recently, he had a recurring role in the Emmy Award-nominated TV series Ray Donovan and a supporting role in the Academy Award-nominated film A Marriage Story. Some may also remember him for his role as the antagonist in the...
Age: 86 years
Loretta Swit played Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, the only woman in the main cast of M*A*S*H. Swit had guest-starred on several popular TV shows in the early 1970s, including Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke and Mission: Impossible, butit wasn't until she landed the role of Houlihan that she became a household name. Her performance was critically acclaimed, and she won two Emmy Awards out of ten nominations for her performance on M*A*S*H. These days, Swit seems to be mostly retired from acting. Accord...
Age: 89 years
Jamie Farr played Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger on M*A*S*H for all eleven seasons, although his character only appeared in a recurring role for the first three seasons before being upped to series regular status for season four. Before Farr acted on M*A*S*H, he actually did serve in Korea with the United States Army, and according to an article Farr wrote for the U.S. Naval Institute, he wore his "Real dog-tags on M*A*S*H." In the years since M*A*S*H wrapped, Farr has held roles in a number of...
Age: 80 years
Gary Burghoff played the popular character Walter "Radar" O'Reilly on M*A*S*H for the first eight seasons of the show's run. He was the youngest of the main characters on the show and celebrated his 80th birthday in May 2023. Burghoff is notable for being the only actor from the movie M*A*S*H (1970) to reprise his role as a main cast member on the television series. He left the show in 1979, but he returned later that year for a two-part special episode called "Goodbye Radar." Good things hap...
Age: 85 years
Mike Farrell joined the cast of M*A*S*H in season four as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt, a replacement for Wayne Rogers' character "Trapper" John. Farrell's wife at the time, Judy Farrell, also acted on M*A*S*H in the recurring role of Nurse Able. In recent years, he has guest-starred on popular TV dramas like NCIS. In 2016, he also played Lee Miglin in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
Age: 76 years
Jeff Maxwell was never a series regular on M*A*S*H, but he appeared on the show in a recurring role for ten years. Many of his earlier appearances on the show were uncredited, but as time went on, his role on the show increased, and he became a beloved cast member. These days, he hosts a podcast called M*A*S*H Matters, where he discusses M*A*S*H and the film and TV industry alongside his co-host Ryan Patrick.
Age: 79 years
Odessa Cleveland appeared on M*A*S*H from 1972-1975 as Ginger Bayliss, one of the most frequently featured nurses over the first few seasons. She also guest-starred on one episode of the M*A*S*H spin-off series Trapper John, M.D. in 1986. Cleveland was one of the few Black actors to appear as a recurring character on the show, and she was prominently featured in the season two episode "Dear Dad... Three." In that particular episode, viewers saw Nurse Bayliss forced to treat an out of line, ra...
- Leo Morgenstern
Aimee (17 episodes of the series (1976–79)), followed by reunion made-for-TV movies: A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993), (with Rachel Longaker, born 1965); and then two subsequent films Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain and A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain, - (using DeAnna Robbins, born 1959), is the adopted blonde-haired daughter of Ike and Corabeth Godsey and becomes best friend of ...
Jan 12, 2021 · Here’s where the children from The Waltons are now: Richard Thomas. Outside of The Waltons, Thomas has maintained a very successful career as an actor. Thomas played the lead in the original miniseries adaption of Stephen King’s It. He also recently landed a major role on the FX spy series, The Americans. View this post on Instagram. Judy ...
