Ralph Waite
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1375 |
| Birthday | 1928-06-22 |
| Place of Birth | White Plains, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1992
The Bodyguard
6.706/3345
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bod...
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The Bodyguard
1972
Trouble Man
6.275/40
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix thin...
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Trouble Man
1990
Crash and Burn
4.286/49
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to ins...
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Crash and Burn
1996
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
6.626/550
When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying t...
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Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1993
Cliffhanger
6.522/2731
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to r...
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Cliffhanger
1972
Chato's Land
6.541/171
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
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Chato's Land
2010
Letters to God
6.8/141
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsusp...
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Letters to God
1971
Lawman
6.525/141
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st...
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Lawman
1972
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
5.704/108
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers...
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The Magnificent Seven Ride!
2009
Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective
3.4/208
"I will try to be normal" 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties or...
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Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective
1969
Last Summer
6.2/51
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationsh...
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Last Summer
2003
Timequest
5/17
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy....
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Timequest
1982
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
5.667/3
Mary Ellen marries Jonesy but they don't exactly have a good start.
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Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain
1982
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
5.75/4
Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with...
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A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
1972
Hot Summer Week
4.333/3
Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in the area.
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Hot Summer Week
2012
Gabe the Cupid Dog
6.333/9
When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it pretty well. He still has his long time canine comp...
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Gabe the Cupid Dog
1988
Good Old Boy
7/2
A timeless story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City, in the 1940s during World War II, roaming with his friends, pl...
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Good Old Boy
1973
Kid Blue
6.974/19
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...
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Kid Blue
1990
Sparks: The Price of Passion
6/3
A female mayor of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she receives blackmail ph...
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Sparks: The Price of Passion
1977
Red Alert
5.333/3
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew...
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Red Alert
1971
The Sporting Club
4.214/7
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarc...
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The Sporting Club
1970
Five Easy Pieces
7.073/617
Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past.
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Five Easy Pieces
1994
Sin and Redemption
6/2
Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident cause an unwanted pregnancy that damages her colleg...
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Sin and Redemption
2008
Generation Gap
7.2/5
When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go deeper than just the years that separate them.
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Generation Gap
1973
The Stone Killer
6.305/100
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
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The Stone Killer
1982
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
6/3
Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his...
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A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1984
A Good Sport
9/1
The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewhat offbeat romance on a purely platonic level.
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A Good Sport
2001
Spirit
6.071/7
When Kelly and her father move to New Orleans after the death of her mother, strange things start happening in their new home. Kelly is convinced that...
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Spirit
1989
Snake Treaty
6/2
Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has...
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Snake Treaty
2003
Blessings
6.5/2
Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct get...
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Blessings
1971
The Grissom Gang
6.663/41
Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the...
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The Grissom Gang
1995
A Season of Hope
3.5/2
When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened Californian family reaches their breaking point....
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A Season of Hope
1968
A Lovely Way to Die
4.844/17
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's mu...
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A Lovely Way to Die
1980
Angel City
6/5
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
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Angel City
1994
Sioux City
4.958/12
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller...
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Sioux City
1967
Cool Hand Luke
7.732/1672
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...
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Cool Hand Luke
2000
The President's Man
4.709/67
To many, Joshua McCord is a charismatic Asian studies professor. To the President of the United States, he's America's greatest secret weapon; a cover...
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The President's Man
1993
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
7.333/3
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhi...
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
1981
The Gentleman Bandit
5.667/6
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
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The Gentleman Bandit
2011
25 Hill
6.1/18
This is the story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan. The boy teams up with...
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25 Hill
1994
Keys
4.5/4
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
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Keys
2004
Silver City
6.13/77
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor o...
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Silver City
1997
A Walton Easter
7.333/3
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans t...
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A Walton Easter
1980
On the Nickel
7/4
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends o...
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On the Nickel
1967
The Desperate Hours
4/2
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormen...
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The Desperate Hours
1976
The Secret Life of John Chapman
7.25/4
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life o...
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The Secret Life of John Chapman
2002
Sunshine State
6.42/44
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estat...
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Sunshine State
2007
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
7.2/8
Dr. Maxwell is called in to investigate the kidnapping of a prize race horse. When the case leads to murder, Maxwell and Detective Bryant suspect the...
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Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
1980
OHMS
7.5/2
A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activ...
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OHMS
1991
Wild by Law
7.25/4
Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling San...
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Wild by Law
1985
Crime of Innocence
6/5
Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that...
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Crime of Innocence
1971
The Pursuit of Happiness
6.176/17
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
1967
The Borgia Stick
8.5/3
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 synd...
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The Borgia Stick
1995
A Walton Wedding
0/0
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two...
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A Walton Wedding
2008
A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
0/0
A documentary on the making of 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967).
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A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'
1980
The Waltons: A Decade of the Waltons
7.8/4
A docudrama of the classic series. Almost like another episode of the series as a photo album presented to Grandma as a present spurs memories, presen...
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