Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer, and producer, primarily in movies and television. Gilbert is best known as a child actress who co-starred as Charles Ingalls's (played by Michael Landon) second daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, on the dramatic television series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1984). As an adult, she has a very long list of acting, voicework, writing, producing, and directing credits. Melissa also served two terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild. On June 9, 2009, her autobiography Prairie Tale: A Memoir was released.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.911 |
| Birthday | 1964-05-08 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Melissa Gilbert-Brinkman, ملیسا گیلبرت, |
2007
Safe Harbour
5/11
Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on...
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Safe Harbour
1968
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
7.6/4
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
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The Dean Martin Christmas Show
1988
Funny
8/1
People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.
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Funny
1998
Her Own Rules
6.333/3
Melissa Gilbert stars as Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years o...
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Her Own Rules
1996
A Holiday for Love
5.767/30
A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsi...
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A Holiday for Love
1985
Sylvester
5.143/7
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him...
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Sylvester
2005
Thicker Than Water
6.2/16
After the death of her father, Natalie Travers discovers he was married to a rodeo star before he married Natalie’s mother. Upset that her father kept...
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Thicker Than Water
1980
The Diary of Anne Frank
5.821/14
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
2003
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
5.5/3
A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two frie...
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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
2004
Heart of the Storm
6.4/13
On the eve of a hurricane threatening New Orleans a dangerous convict escapes from prison with two accomplices. When the high winds and flooding disru...
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Heart of the Storm
1997
Danielle Steel's Zoya
4.941/17
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
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Danielle Steel's Zoya
1993
Family of Strangers
5.714/7
Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted an...
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Family of Strangers
1999
Switched at Birth
6.9/14
Sarah Barlow and Linda Wells are two mothers who give birth on the same day in the same hospital. Eighteen months later, a DNA test proves the infants...
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Switched at Birth
2011
The Christmas Pageant
5.9/15
Vera Parks, an overly intense and demanding Broadway director, gets fired from yet another job, leaving her no choice but to take a gig directing a sm...
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The Christmas Pageant
2000
Lisa Picard Is Famous
4.636/11
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa...
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Lisa Picard Is Famous
2007
Sacrifices of the Heart
6.4/5
Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed viol...
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Sacrifices of the Heart
1990
The Lookalike
3.7/3
A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter
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The Lookalike
1990
Forbidden Nights
6.25/4
Judith Shapiro's dream has come true. Due to the process of opening to the west in China she has been invited to stay for two years in Shang Sa, Hunan...
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Forbidden Nights
1979
The Miracle Worker
6.864/22
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl...
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The Miracle Worker
1994
The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story
6/2
Married couples, unable to conceive, are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks to a larger-than-life "miracle doctor" and his unus...
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The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story
1997
Seduction in a Small Town
7/2
A couple's idyllic life is shattered when authorities accuse them of child abuse and take away their three young children. When they desperately searc...
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Seduction in a Small Town
2000
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
10/1
When Donielle is just eight years old and attending her best friend's funeral she has a vision that her friend was murdered by his father. No one beli...
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A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
1993
House of Secrets
3.8/5
Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns...
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House of Secrets
1997
Childhood Sweetheart?
4.8/4
After seventeen years, a missing girl returns home. But is she a long-lost friend or a cold-blooded killer?
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Childhood Sweetheart?
1999
The Soul Collector
7.292/12
Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband d...
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The Soul Collector
1974
Little House on the Prairie
8.091/22
The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home.
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Little House on the Prairie
2002
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
6/2
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
1989
Ice House
4.2/5
Pake has left a good paying job working in the oil fields of Texas in order to give the music business a try. Eventually he finds himself alone and wi...
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Ice House
1986
Choices
8/2
A 19 year old girl suddenly finds herself pregnant. Not wanting to face motherhood or dealing with the consequences of a child, she contemplates an ab...
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Choices
1988
Killer Instinct
6.2/5
Woody Harrelson stars in the story of psychiatrist Lisa DaVito and her battle to save a tortured man whose past has turned him to violence. One tragic...
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Killer Instinct
1994
Cries from the Heart
6/5
Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being moles...
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Cries from the Heart
2014
Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas
8.4/5
Celebrate the holidays with two classic "Little House" specials, restored and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek,"...
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Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas
1990
Without Her Consent
5/7
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.
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Without Her Consent
1990
Donor
5.3/4
Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs...
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Donor
1992
With a Vengeance
7.2/5
A woman frightened by her nightmares hires a private investigator to look into her past, only to find her fears are becoming reality.
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With a Vengeance
1967
The Reluctant Astronaut
5.968/47
Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space prog...
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The Reluctant Astronaut
1978
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
7/1
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, The Magical World of Dis...
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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
2001
Sanctuary
4.071/7
A famous photographer, Jo Ellen Hathaway, has been being stalked for quite some time. She returns to the island she grew up on in an effort to get awa...
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Sanctuary
1983
Little House: Bless All the Dear Children
5.385/13
During preparation for Christmas baby Rose Wilder is kidnapped by the woman who recently lost her child. Looking for her Laura, Almanzo and Mr Edwards...
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Little House: Bless All the Dear Children
1993
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
4.25/4
A client's claims of incest cause an attorney to remember the traumas she suffered when she was a sexually abused child. Instead of debilitating her,...
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Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
1983
Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
6.9/20
Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Mea...
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Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
1981
Splendor in the Grass
6.6/9
Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.
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Splendor in the Grass
1989
Chameleons
7/1
Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he w...
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Chameleons
1983
Choices of the Heart
6.167/6
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of...
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Choices of the Heart
1999
Murder at 75 Birch
7/3
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Murder at 75 Birch
2020
When We Last Spoke
6.5/4
Two sisters are abandoned by their Broadway-bound mother and are left with their grandparents and a cast of kooky characters. A coming-of-age story ab...
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When We Last Spoke
2018
Hometown Christmas
6.063/24
Back in Louisiana for Christmas, Noelle Collins has big plans to resurrect the town’s live nativity, a beloved tradition that her late mother used to...
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Hometown Christmas
1994
Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story
7.5/2
Carrie Buck is a young intellectually disabled woman who is persuaded to fight against the courts for custody of her newborn daughter after it's taken...
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Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story
1984
Little House: The Last Farewell
7.1/17
While Charles and Caroline are visiting Walnut Grove, the townspeople learn that a land development tycoon has acquired title to all the land in Hero...
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Little House: The Last Farewell
1977
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
6.3/5
Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
1990
Joshua's Heart
6/10
A woman is torn between her boyfriend's ending their relationship and being separated from his young son with whom she has bonded.
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Joshua's Heart
1993
Dying to Remember
5/2
A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Fra...
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Dying to Remember
1979
The Little House Years
8.5/2
Laura Ingalls reminisces about the Ingalls' journeys and struggles during a family Thanksgiving gathering.
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The Little House Years
1991
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
8/2
A tribute to one of Hollywood's most beloved and respected actors.
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Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
1984
Family Secrets
4.6/5
Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever.
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Family Secrets
1987
Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
8/4
A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.
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Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
1982
Hollywood’s Children
9/1
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
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Hollywood’s Children
1988
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
10/1
Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family si...
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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
2020
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
0/0
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas o...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
1982
Night of 100 Stars
5.8/5
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
1993
With Hostile Intent
8/2
After police officer Miranda Berkley dumps her boyfriend, who's also her superior, she and her colleague Kathy Arnold constantly are harassed by their...
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With Hostile Intent
One Smart Fellow
0/0
While on a weekend vacation at a beautiful beach house on the coast of North Carolina, a not so smart fellow decides to turn his family’s life upside...
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One Smart Fellow
1985
The Snow Queen
0/0
Kay and Gerda are best friends. A wicked goblin who likes to cause trouble casts a spell on Kay to separate them. The Snow Queen snatches him away to...
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