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Little House on the Prairie
Together, a pioneering family faces a crucial test of its courage and its love!
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
  • First aired on 09/11/1974 (TV Show)
  • Western / Drama / Family
  • 10 Seasons
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Melissa Gilbert

Character's name: "Laura Ingalls"
Birthday: 05/08/1964
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer, and producer, primarily in movies and television. Gilbert is best known as a child actress who co-starred as Charles Ingalls's (played by Michael Landon) second daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, on the dramatic television series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1984). As an adult, she has a very long list of acting, voicework, writing, producing, and directing credits. Melissa also served two terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild. On June 9, 2009, her autobiography Prairie Tale: A Memoir was released. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa Gilbert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Dean Butler

Character's name: "Almanzo James Wilder"
Birthday: 05/20/1956
Birthplace: Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

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Karen Grassle

Character's name: "Caroline Ingalls"
Birthday: 02/25/1942
Birthplace: Berkeley, California, USA
Biography:
Karen Trust Grassle (/ɡræsliː/ GRASS-LEE; born February 25, 1942) is an American actress, known for her role as Caroline Ingalls in the NBC television drama series Little House on the Prairie. After summers at the Stanford Contemporary Workshop playing leads and two summers at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival playing classical roles, her first professional engagement was a season at the Front Street Theatre, Memphis, TN. upon return from London. While living in New York City, she worked at resident and stock theatres throughout the country, also appearing on PBS in original works and on networks in three soap operas. She made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1968 play The Gingham Dog. Grassle played in Butterflies Are Free on Broadway (as stand-by with Gloria Swanson, Rosemary Murphy, etc.) as well as at the Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado, in June 1972, along with Maureen O'Sullivan and Brandon deWilde, who was killed before leaving town after the performances ended. Grassle starred in the Shakespeare in the Park "Cymbeline." with Christopher Walken, Sam Waterston, and Bill Devane. Grassle auditioned for the role of the mother, Caroline Ingalls, in the Little House on the Prairie TV series and won the part. The series ran for nine seasons, from 1974 to 1983. After making the pilot for Little House on the Prairie, Grassle appeared in one episode of Gunsmoke titled "The Wiving" as Fran, one of several saloon girls kidnapped. Subsequently, she acted in the features Harry's War, a 1981 American film where she played Kathy, the wife of Edward Herrmann's title character, and Wyatt Earp, a 1994 film starring Kevin Costner. On television, she starred in and co-wrote the NBC-TV film Battered. Other TV movies include Cocaine: One Man's Seduction, Crisis in MidAir, and Between the Darkness and the Dawn. In episodic TV, she starred in Hotel, Love Boat, and Murder She Wrote (twice.) She also appeared on Hollywood Squares and numerous talk shows such as Dinah, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and John Davidson. During this period, she lobbied for federal funding for shelters for battered women and appeared in many events to support the Equal Rights Amendment. After the series ended, she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and became co-founder and artistic director of Santa Fe’s Resource Theater Company. Later she moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she performed with the company of actors at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Grassle continues to perform in productions in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto as well as tours and productions such as Driving Miss Daisy in the starring role of Miss Daisy at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in a co-production with Rubicon Theatre and at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In 2008, she was awarded a prize for her performance in Cabaret at the San Francisco Playhouse. Over the years, she has appeared in commercials such as the promotional face for Premier Bathrooms, a supplier of bathing products for the elderly and infirm.

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Katherine MacGregor

Character's name: "Harriet Oleson"
Birthday: 01/12/1925
Date of Death: 11/13/2018
Birthplace: Glendale, California, USA
Biography:
Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor (born Dorlee Deane McGregor; January 12, 1925 – November 14, 2018) was an American actress, best known for her role as Harriet Oleson in Little House on the Prairie. Katherine MacGregor was born Dorlee Deane McGregor on January 12, 1925, in Glendale, California, to Ralph S. McGregor and Beatrice E. Willard. When Katherine was a child, her mother Beatrice moved the family to Fort Collins, Colorado, where they lived most of Katherine's early life. She graduated from Northwestern University with a major in drama and moved to New York City in 1949. She was hired by the Arthur Murray Dance Studios as a dance instructor. She studied acting under N. Richard Nash, Sanford Meisner, and Stella Adler. She did summer stock in Lebanon, Pennsylvania as Dorlee Deane McGregor but switched to using the stage name Scottie MacGregor as her acting career advanced. When she adopted the use of Katherine as her given name is unclear but she switched from using ‘Scottie’ as she matured in age on the advice of her manager. Beginning in the 1950s, as Scottie MacGregor, she worked in theatre on and off Broadway in New York City and other locations in plays such as The Seven Year Itch and Handful of Fire, and won such uncredited parts as "a longshoreman's mother" (On the Waterfront); "Alice Thorn" (The Traveling Executioner), and "Miss Boswell" (The Student Nurses). She appeared in numerous episodes of various television series: Love of Life (1956), The Secret Storm, The Nurses, Play of the Week (1959), East Side/West Side (1963), Mannix (1970–71), Emergency! (1972), Ironside (1972, 1974), and All in the Family (1973), as well as the two 1981 "Heroes vs. Villains" episodes of Family Feud hosted by Richard Dawson. She had roles in the TV movies, The Death of Me Yet (1971), The Girls of Huntington House (1973), and Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974). MacGregor's best-known role was from 1974 to 1983 in NBC's Little House on the Prairie as Harriet Oleson, the general store owner's wife and a comedic part. MacGregor's favorite description of her character in Little House came in a fan letter from Minnesota in the 1970s, in which Mrs. Oleson was described as "the touch of pepper in the sweetness of the show". In 1979, due to the popularity of Little House in Spain, MacGregor was invited to Madrid, Spain, and appeared on RTVE's 625 Lineas and Ding Dong La Cocina programs. After Little House on the Prairie, she withdrew from screen productions in favor of local theater. She dedicated herself to the Hindu religion, and to teaching acting to children at the Wee Hollywood Vedanta Players, before finally retiring in the early 2000s. In 2014, she did an in-depth interview about her life and career for the book Prairie Memories by Patrick Loubatiere. She was married to actor Bert Remsen from 1949 to 1950 and to actor, director, and teacher Edward G. Kaye-Martin, 14 years her junior, from August 1969 to October 1970. She had no children. While recovering from alcoholism, MacGregor converted to Hinduism. She was unable to appear in the series finale of Little House on the Prairie, because she was on a pilgrimage to India at the time of the episode's filming. MacGregor died on November 14, 2018, at the age of 93, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. No cause was given.

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Melissa Sue Anderson

Character's name: "Mary Ingalls"
Birthday: 09/26/1962
Birthplace: Berkeley, California, USA
Biography:
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Melissa Sue Anderson (born September 26, 1962) is an American actress. She played the role of Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie. She starred on the show from 1974 until 1981, leaving after Season 7, but later appeared in 2 episodes of Season 8 in late 1981. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine? (1979). One of her more recent performances was as First Lady Megan Hollister in the 2006 television mini-series 10.5: Apocalypse. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa Sue Anderson,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Richard Bull

Character's name: "Nels Oleson"
Birthday: 06/26/1924
Date of Death: 02/03/2014
Birthplace: Zion, Illinois, USA

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Victor French

Character's name: "Mr. Edwards"
Birthday: 12/04/1934
Date of Death: 06/15/1989
Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Victor Edwin French (December 4, 1934 – June 15, 1989) was an American actor and director. He is remembered for roles on the television programs Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and Carter Country, cl.

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Jonathan Gilbert

Character's name: "Willie Oleson"
Birthday: 04/28/1967
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Allison Balson

Character's name: "Nancy Oleson"
Birthday: 11/19/1969
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Allison Balson (born November 19, 1969) is an American actress, who is also a published singer and songwriter. Her best known role was Nancy Oleson on the Little House on the Prairie series which she held between 1981 and 1983. She graduated valedictorian from her high school and went on to receive a Bachelor's from Princeton University and a Master's from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. In 1987 Allison's song "I Wonder" was featured in the soundrack for "Legend of the White Horse" (CBS/Warner Bros.). In 2005 Allison recorded and released a limited-edition CD. In 2008, she collaborated on writing, producing, engineering, and performing a full-length album through the label Organic Time Records as the duo Allison & Stone. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allison Balson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Lindsay Kennedy

Character's name: "Jeb Carter"
Birthday: 01/04/1969

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David Friedman

Character's name: "Jason Carter"
Birthday: 12/22/2024

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Shannen Doherty

Character's name: "Jenny Wilder"
Birthday: 04/12/1971
Date of Death: 07/13/2024
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Biography:
​Shannen Doherty (April 12, 1971 – July 13, 2024) was an American actress, producer, author and television director, mostly known for her work in Heathers as well as on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed.

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Leslie Landon

Character's name: "Etta Plum"
Birthday: 10/11/1962
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Alison Arngrim

Character's name: "Nelly Olson"
Birthday: 01/18/1962
Birthplace: New York City, New York, U.S.


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Michael Landon
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Ed Friendly
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