The Waltons – Smashing Interviews Magazine

Sunday

23

October 2022

0

COMMENTS

Michael Learned Interview: "Waltons" Icon Kills It as Dahmer's Grandma

Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors

Michael Learned will always be known for her role as Olivia Walton in the iconic family drama The Waltons, which is celebrating its 50^thanniversary this year. She was nominated for six Emmy Awards as Lead Actress in a Drama, winning three times for her role as Olivia Walton. After the seventh season, she left the show. Learned also starred as Nurse Mary Benjamin in the hospital drama Nurse, and she won yet another Emmy for this role in 1982.

Read Article

Tuesday

8

March 2022

2

COMMENTS

Michael Learned Interview: "The Waltons" Reunion and 50th Anniversary

Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors

Four-time Emmy Award-winning actress Michael Learned is best known as Olivia Walton in The Waltons, a long-running CBS series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. The show was created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his 1961 book Spencer’s Mountain and the 1963 film of the same name. In addition to Learned, Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Ellen Corby, Will Geer, Judy Norton, Jon Walmsley, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Eric Scott, David W. Harper and Kami Colter also starred as members of the iconic family.

Read Article

Friday

1

October 2021

2

COMMENTS

Michael Learned Interview: How Race Relations Impacted "Waltons" Icon

Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors

Michael Learned is best known for her television role as Olivia Walton in The Waltons, the popular and critically-acclaimed 1970s series about a rural family in Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. The Waltons first aired on television September 14, 1972, and the original run ended on June 4, 1981. For that show, Learned won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1973, 1974, 1976). Her next starring role on television came in 1982 as Mary Benjamin in the medical drama series Nurse, which also garnered her an Emmy Award even though the show aired only 25 episodes (including the pilot).

Read Article

The Waltons Archive

23

0

Michael Learned Interview: "Waltons" Icon Kills It as Dahmer's Grandma

8

2

Michael Learned Interview: "The Waltons" Reunion and 50th Anniversary

1

2

Michael Learned Interview: How Race Relations Impacted "Waltons" Icon

Info

The Latest

Categories

Subscribe

Get new interviews by email:

Follow & Like Smashing Interviews