Michael Learned
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The eldest of six sisters, Michael Learned spent her first decade on her family's farm in Connecticut. When she was 11, Learned moved to Austria, where her father worked for the U.S. State Department. While attending boarding school in England, she discovered the theater, and decided to make it her life's work. At 16, she married actor Peter Donat, a union that lasted until 1972. Dividing her time between stage acting and raising her sons, she appeared in Canadian and American Shakespeare Festival, and for several years was associated with San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre. While appearing in a production of Noel Coward's Private Lives, Learned was selected by John Rich to play Olivia Walton on his upcoming TV series The Waltons (she replaced Patricia Neal, who starred as Olivia in the 1971 pilot film The Homecoming). She remained with The Waltons until 1980, winning three Emmies in the process. In 1981, she was starred as Mary Benjamin in her own series, Nurse (1981-82), which earned her a fourth Emmy. Hoping to distance herself from the Olivia Walton image, she went to play Dr. Marie Teller in the 1988 weekly Hothouse and model agency head Trish Carlin in Living Dolls (1989). She also appeared in such theatrical features as Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) and such made-for-TV specials as All My Sons (1986). Eventually, however, Michael Learned returned to the Waltons fold in a 1995 TV-movie reunion.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Lethal Eviction |
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— | 2005 |
73% | Loggerheads |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | A Father for Brittany |
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— | 1998 |
56% | Life During Wartime |
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— | 1997 |
74% | Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | A un Paso de la Muerte |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Gunsmoke: The Last Apache |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Roots: The Gift |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Mercy or Murder? |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | American Playhouse |
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— | 1986 |
50% | Power |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | A Deadly Business |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Touched by Love |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | A Christmas Without Snow |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Nurse |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Baltimore Bullet |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Waltons: A Christmas Carol |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Hurricane |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | The Waltons |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Waltons The Children's Carol |
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— | 1972 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Cold Case
2003-2010
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83% |
Scrubs
2001-2010
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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No Score Yet |
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
1997-2000
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No Score Yet |
Profiler
1996-2000
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No Score Yet |
Wiseguy
1987-1990
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Who's the Boss?
1984-1992
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No Score Yet |
American Playhouse
1982-1996
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No Score Yet |
The Waltons
1972-1981
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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