Broadway Vet & 'Waltons' Patriarch Ralph Waite Dies at 85
Ralph Waite, best known as patriarch John Walton Sr. on the long-running 1970s TV series The Waltons, has passed away at his Palm Desert home on Thursday, February 13th.
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