Richard Farnsworth
Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He is best known for his performances in The Grey Fox, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, Anne of Green Gables, Misery, and The Straight Story, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He died by suicide following a long battle with prostate cancer.
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Guest Appearances
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LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE · S3, E13Quarantine
Doc Baker assists with an outbreak of mountain fever in a nearby town. The people of Walnut Grove are hopeful that the disease will overpass their community. Grace and Isaiah's young daughter Alicia becomes seriously ill, so Isaiah takes her to an abandoned house in town to nurse her back to health. Laura appears to have the fever as well, and Charles frantically sets out to find Doc Baker.
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HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN · S4, E10A Dream of Wild Horses
The patriarch of a ranch family feels he's too old to rein in some wild horses.