LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ralph Waite, who played the good-hearted but soft-spoken patriarch on the 1970s U.S. television drama "The Waltons," died on Thursday in Southern California, the actor's ...

“All of us at Bones mourn the loss of Ralph Waite. We loved having him on set and in many ways his character was the moral center of our show as Booth’s plainspoken, loving, war hero grandfather. The ...

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Norfolk, Va. — In real life, Ralph Waite has been a minister, a social worker and a congressional candidate. But he is best known as a fictitious farmer — Papa Walton on the long-running television ...

Ralph Waite in the role of John Walton in "The Waltons." Facebook/Waltons Fans Page Ralph Waite, a veteran actor who was perhaps best known for portraying the ultimate father figure, John Walton, on ...

Ralph Waite, who played the patriach of Walton's Mountain on the long-running family drama "The Waltons," and appeared as the father of Mark Harmon's Jethro Gibbs on "NCIS," has died. He passed away ...

Ralph Waite, who played the father in TV's hit series "The Waltons," has died.Waite's manager, Alan Mills, says the actor died midday Thursday in the Palm Springs area. He was 85.Photos: 2014 Notable ...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Ralph Waite, best known as the father in TV's hit series "The Waltons," died Thursday. He was 85. Waite's manager, Alan Mills, says the actor died midday in the Palm Springs area. ...

LOS ANGELES – Ralph Waite, who played the kind-and-steady patriarch of a tight-knit rural Southern family on the TV series “The Waltons,” died Thursday, his manager said. He was 85. Waite, who lived ...