Ralph Waite
Acting
Biography
Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor. His most famous role may be John Walton Sr. on the 1970s CBS TV series The Waltons, which he occasionally directed. He is also well known for his portrayal of the slave ship first mate Slater in the mini-series Roots. Later in his career, he appeared as Reverend Norman Balthus for 16 out of 24 episodes over the two seasons of the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005). He portrayed the recurring roles of Father Matt on the daytime serial Days of our Lives, of Jethro Gibbs's (Mark Harmon) father, Jackson Gibbs, on NCIS and of Seeley Booth's (David Boreanaz) grandfather, Hank Booth on Bones.
Born: June 22, 1928
Place of Birth: White Plains, New York, USA
Known For
The West
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
Reading Rainbow
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.
Grey's Anatomy
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Bones
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Shannon's Deal
Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon, who lost his family and his job to a compulsive gambling habit. The saga of Shannon, who leaves a prestigious law firm after years of becoming unhappy with the legal system and being forced to take his clients to court, and whom subsequently opens his own low-rent practice
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
The Borgia Stick
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
The Outer Limits
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
The Practice
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
Filmography
as R.L. Dutton
as Ed
as Mr. Perryfield
as Grandpa Ventura
as Chick
as Father Mike
as Jacob Brawley
as Hank Booth
as Irving Waller
as Casey Lyle
as Sheriff
as Jackson Gibbs
as Norman Belthus
as The Traveler
as Furman Temple
as Jacob Hardesty
as Sheriff Montgomery
as President Mathews
as Senator Proust
as John Walton
as Walter Josephson
as Self (voice)
as Shadow (voice)
as Gene Morton
as John Walton
as Sam Hackett
as Drew McDermott
as Dr. C.J. Halligan
as John Walton
as Frank
as Lamont Carson
as Herb Farmer
as Aldo Leopold (voice)
as Lathan Hooks
as Harry
as Orville Lemon
as Narrator (voice)
as Frank Hayward
as D.A. Paul Robbins
as Tommy O'Bannon
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Ben Walker
as John Walton
as John Walton
as John Walton
as Father Bernard Pagano
as Jared Teeter
as C.G.
as Floyd Wing
as Henry Stone
as Slater
as John Chapman
as Self
as Mathews
as Drummer
as Pete Cockrell
as John Walton Sr.
as Jim Mackay
as John
as Elias Hooker
as Sam Burton
as Mace
as Jack Dekker
as Olson
as Detective Cromie
as Carl Fidelio Dupea
as Peter's father (uncredited)
as Sean Magruder
as Lt. Fredericks
as Alibi
as Man from Toledo
as Self
as Hoby Miles