Michael Learned Interview: "The Waltons" Star Honored with Oscar Icon Award for Television
Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors
Michael Learned is known for her role as Olivia Walton in The Waltons, a TV series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer’s Mountainand a 1963 film of the same name, about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. The show also stars Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Ellen Corby, Will Geer, Judy Norton, Jon Walmsley, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Eric Scott, David W. Harper and Kami Cotler.