Ralph Waite
Birthday: 1928-06-22
Place of Birth: White Plains, New York, USA
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.
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The Bodyguard
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened ...
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Trouble Man
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pe...
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Crash and Burn
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They hav...
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Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy na...
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Cliffhanger
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partne...
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Chato's Land
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventua...
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Letters to God
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring ...
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Lawman
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their cele...
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The Magnificent Seven Ride!
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican...
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Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective
"I will try to be normal" 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for ...
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Last Summer
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tri...
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Timequest
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents...
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Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
Mary Ellen marries Jonesy but they don't exactly have a good start....
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A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family ...
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Hot Summer Week
Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in t...
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Gabe the Cupid Dog
When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it p...
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Good Old Boy
A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City, in the 1940s...
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Kid Blue
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dim...
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Sparks: The Price of Passion
A female mayor of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic cente...
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Red Alert
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation l...
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The Sporting Club
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgrun...
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Five Easy Pieces
Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with...
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Sin and Redemption
Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident c...
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Generation Gap
When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go ...
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The Stone Killer
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Maf...
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A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for th...
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A Good Sport
The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewh...
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Spirit
When Kelly and her father move to New Orleans after the death of her mother, strange things start ha...
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Snake Treaty
Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He ...
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Blessings
Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles '...
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The Grissom Gang
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. K...
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A Season of Hope
When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened...
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A Lovely Way to Die
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich ...
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Angel City
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no pla...
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Sioux City
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cu...
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Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...
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The President's Man
To many, Joshua McCord is a charismatic Asian studies professor. To the President of the United Stat...
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, tr...
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The Gentleman Bandit
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed r...
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Sin & Redemption
A rape victim learns the truth about her husband when their daughter has a life-threatening illness....
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25 Hill
This is the story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier fathe...
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Keys
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own....
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Silver City
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a b...
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A Walton Easter
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new boo...
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On the Nickel
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of...
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The Desperate Hours
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Gri...
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The Secret Life of John Chapman
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job...
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Sunshine State
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal...
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Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
Dr. Maxwell is called in to investigate the kidnapping of a prize race horse. When the case leads to...
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OHMS
A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect hu...
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Wild by Law
Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philo...
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Crime of Innocence
Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much...
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The Borgia Stick
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break aw...
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A Walton Wedding
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashio...
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A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
A documentary on the making of 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967)....
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