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- 1. A Harvest of Friends Sep 11, 1974
- After promising to fix a store's roof and stack sacks of grain, Charles falls out of a tree.
- 2. Country Girls Sep 18, 1974
- Before their first day of school, Laura and Mary worry other students won't accept them.
- 3. The 100-Mile Walk Sep 25, 1974
- After wheat is destroyed, farmers must take risky quarry jobs.
- Jane Kenney
- Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls) Melissa Gilbert was perhaps the most famous child actor in the world during the show’s original run. She played the role of Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie and first got her start in the industry as a child actress in the 1960s.
- Michael Landon (Charles Ingalls) Michael Landon had a career on the small screen that ran into three decades. Becoming a household name by starring in Crossroads, Telephone Time, and I Was a Teenage Werewolf, his career kick-started with a bang.
- Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls) Melissa Sue Anderson was cast as Mary Ingalls after just a few successful commercial roles. In the beginning, while her acting skills weren’t really discovered by the writers of the show, she had quite a trying time in putting herself on the map.
- Karen Grassle (Caroline Ingalls) Karen Grassle played the role of Caroline Ingalls. One of the most versatile actors on the list, Grassle began acting at Berkeley University and jumped at the chance to travel to London to further her Arts Education in 1965.
- Melissa Gilbert
- Michael Landon
- Karen Grassle
- Melissa Sue Anderson
- Jason Bateman
- Dean Butler
- Alison Arngrim
After stealing the hearts of America as the young, spirited Laura Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert continued to act as an adult and starred in many TV movies. She was elected president of the Screen Actor’s Guild in 2001 and served two terms as SAG’s head honcho. Gilbert penned an autobiography, Prairie Tale: A Memoir in 2009. That same year she played the...
The main man of the little house, Charles Ingalls, or Pa, was a hard-working, honest, salt-of-the-earth kind of guy. His daughters adored him and did pretty much anything to please him. Before he became America’s favorite father figure, Michael Landon lit up the screen as Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza. The year Bonanza ended, Landon signed on to...
When she took on the role of Ma, or Caroline Ingalls, Karen Grassle was an undiscovered newcomer. She’d been in a few plays and had bit parts on two TV shows. Despite her lack of credits, she auditioned to play Laura Ingalls' no-nonsense mom and won the part. After Little House ended its run, Grassle said adios to Hollywood and moved to New Mexico ...
Life wasn’t easy for the eldest daughter of the Ingalls' clan. She went blind at 15, but somehow handled it all gracefully while looking impossibly pretty the whole time. Melissa Sue Anderson beat out 200 girls for the part of Mary. After the show, she continued to act in film and TV shows such as The Equalizer, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Murder...
You might not realize it, but Jason Bateman’s first acting gig was playing adopted Ingalls' son James Cooper. His sister Justine played Mallory Keaton in another 80s TV hit, Family Ties. After Little House, Bateman’s career took off, big time. He’s acted in dozens of TV shows, including the cult hit series Arrested Development, and won several awar...
Dean Butler joined the Little House cast as heartthrob Almanzo Wilder. You might remember him as the guy Nellie and Laura got in a mud wrestling match over. After years of pining away for her unrequited crush, Laura finally landed “Manly” and they lived happily ever after. In the 1980s and '90s, Butler guest starred on a bunch of TV shows, includin...
Alison Arngrim played spoiled brat Nellie Oleson, the little girl we all loved to hate. With her smug mug, her flouncing banana curls and her ritzy dresses, she was the perfect nemesis to poor little tomboy Laura. Arngrim started doing standup after Little House and dubbed her time playing Nellie as “like having PMS for seven years.” She continued ...
Mar 28, 2024 · Find out what happened to the cast of 'Little House on the Prairie,' including Melissa Gilbert and all the Ingalls kids.
- Then: Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls. The unspoken star of Little House on the Prairie is, without a doubt, Laura! Her adventurous character consistently had something going on with her throughout the series, usually resulting with a lesson learned at the end of each plot.
- Now: Melissa Gilbert. Little House on the Prairie was far from Melissa's last promising role! She went on to appear in shows like 7th Heaven, Stand By Your Man, Sweet Justice, and more.
- Then: Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls. The head-honcho that is Charles was played by Michael Landon! Fun fact: Michael actually wrote many of the episodes throughout the series, which makes sense why his portrayal of the loving father was so well executed.
- Now: Michael Landon. Other works of Michael include Highway to Heaven and Bonanza! (You can tell he had a specific type of character he liked playing.) Sadly, Michael passed in 1991 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Apr 17, 2024 · Melissa Gilbert and the cast of "Little House on the Prairie" reunite 50 years after the premiere of the TV show. See photos from then and now.
- Laura Trujillo
May 15, 2024 · TV Lists. Little House on the Prairie Cast, 50 Years Later: Where They Are Today. By Rachel Johnson and Nicole Novo. Updated 12 hours ago. Little House on the Prairie...
Jul 4, 2022 · Little House on the Prairie Today Show Reunion April 30 2014. Watch on. 1. Melissa Gilbert — Laura Ingalls Wilder. ASSOCIATED PRESS. Melissa Gilbert beat out hundreds of little girls...
