Posted on 02/04/2014 1:06:09 PM PST by massmike
Richard Bull, a character actor who played shopkeeper Nels Oleson on the 1974-83 TV favorite Little House on the Prairie, died Monday. He was 89.
"This man will be missed," the show's star, Melissa Gilbert, Tweeted. "Goodbye Richard working with you was such a joy but nearly as joyful as being your friend."
Bull was born in Zion, Ill., on June 26, 1924, and in 1948 married actress Barbara Collentine, according to a 2009 Yahoo biographical sketch.
On the NBC show about the Ingalls family in the American West of the 1800s, actress Scottie MacGregor played Bull's wife, Harriet Oleson, and Nels was known as her "long-suffering husband."
He is survived by Collentine, whose own TV roles include those on Hotel, Newhart and St. Elsewhere as well as a stint as the character Edna Mills on Little House.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
Scottie? I thought the wife’s name was Katherine McGregor.
When it came out on DVD we bought the entire set. My girls were not born when it was on. Television had rotted so bad by the time they were born that we gave up on broadcast garbage. I have purchased several of my favorite shows on DVD and we watch them in chronological order to the end and then start a different show. Takes us more than a year to go through the old shows in our collection. Long enough to dim the memory and enjoy them again.
I hear ya
RIP
She actually a comedian she does comedy routine talk about her experience as child actor
She goes by both names, Scotty and Katherine.
RIP.
No, this:
Not bad Nellie...all grown up I see.
Wonder if thats a wig.
RIP Mr Bull,you made a lot of people smile
with your comebacks to Harriet.
RIP.
Neliie Oleson had more charm, likability, intelligence, and maturity than Nancy Pelosi.
Bull had a small part in my all time favorite western - High Plains Drifter.
Enjoyed his work on LHOTP. RIP.
He had a small part in one of my favorite movies - The Thomas Crown Affair (the original).
I never watched much Little House and, yes, that's exactly who sprang to mind.
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