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Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers; in NCIS as Jackson Gibbs , the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs , and in Bones , as Seeley Booth 's grandfather.
Ralph Waite's return as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, was announced by Glasberg on September 30, 2013. [3] This episode marks Waite's final appearance as Jackson Gibbs, as the actor died on February 13, 2014.
Died in 1973. Larry Drake: J. Edgar Hoover: The notorious Director of the FBI who tries to blackmail JFK. Forcibly resigned from the FBI in 1963 and died in 1972. Ralph Waite: The Time Traveler Born November 22, 1963 as Raymond Mead. Died November 22, 1963 after changing history and fading into nothing. Joseph Murphy Raymond Mead
After portraying a landlady in an earlier episode of The Waltons, Rea permanently joined the cast in 1979 in the role of Rose Burton, a cousin of Olivia Walton, a surrogate parental figure replacing Ellen Corby (Grandma), Michael Learned (Olivia), and the following year, Ralph Waite (John).
When Geer died shortly after completing the sixth season of The Waltons, the death of his character was written into the show's script. His final episode, the last episode of the 1977–1978 season, showed him reuniting with his onscreen wife Esther (played by Ellen Corby ; she had been absent for the entire season due to a stroke).
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Family patriarch John, called Daddy by his children, (pilot, Andrew Duggan; series and sequels, Ralph Waite) is a hard-working, industrious man who runs a small family sawmill on his property on Walton's Mountain. He is the second son of Esther Walton (née Morgan) and Zebulon Tyler Walton.
At the time, detectives looked into her ex-boyfriend, Ralph Sepulveda, and her coworker, Brian Travers, as possible persons of interest. No arrests have been made, however, in this nearly 22-year ...