Credits include: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Monsters, The Waltons, Loggerheads and Murder in New Hampshire

Credits include: Willow, Legend, UHF, The Rescuers Down Under and Masters of the Universe

Credits include: Seconds, In Cold Blood, Jeremiah Johnson, Winchester '73 and Broken Arrow

Ralph Waite's stalwart and steadfast TV homesteader John Walton will endure in the hearts of family-oriented viewers for decades to come. Educated at Bucknell University where he graduated with a BA degree, Waite existed rather aimlessly as a young adult while trying to find his way in the world. Occupations came and went, including social worker, religious editor for Harper & Row, and even Presbyterian minister after spending three years at the Yale School of Divinity. At age 30, however, he b

Credits include: Thumbelina, Man of La Mancha, Lovely But Lethal, How Sweet It Is! and Poor Devil

Credits include: It, The Americans, Taking Woodstock, The Unforgivable and All Quiet on the Western Front

Credits include: Jason and the Argonauts, The Enforcer, Night Moves, The Ballad of Cable Hogue and The Americanization of Emily

American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest. As a novelist, he is best known for the novel Spencer's Mountain, which was inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he provided voiceover narration. He based the Walton family grandparents in the popular television s

Credits include: Vertigo, Sabrina, Shane, Caged and Mighty Joe Young

Credits include: Slumber Party Massacre II, Shanks, Do Not Disturb, Back to the Planet of the Apes and The Big Bounce

Credits include: The Waltons, Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain, The Longest Night, A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain and The Hunt

Credits include: The Waltons, Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain, A Walton Easter, A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion and A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain