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Post by Johnny on May 30, 2019 6:33:23 GMT -5
You remember Henry Fonda cast as Clay Spencer in Spencer's Mountain and Richard Thomas as John Boy in The Waltons TV series. Well both actors appeared not only together but as father & son in 1979 in Alex Haley's Roots. The Next Generations. Fonda cast as Colonel Frederick Warner & Richard his son Jim Warner who went off to college and studied, guess what? Poetry.. _ Here are a couple of images from Roots
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 9:33:17 GMT -5
When a Spencer met a Walton |
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Post by JeriJet on May 30, 2019 14:08:27 GMT -5
When a Spencer met a Walton And the poor Walton got stuck with the itsy-bitsy Blue Ridge Mountains!! I'd love to see the Grand Tetons in person.... |
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Post by Johnny on May 30, 2019 19:38:29 GMT -5
And the poor Walton got stuck with the itsy-bitsy Blue Ridge Mountains!! I'd love to see the Grand Tetons in person.... yes the French had a sense of humor in naming them Grand Tétons.  The Blueridge may be itzy-bitzy but they are much older at 1.2 billion yrs old while the Grand Tetons are only 12 million yrs old. The Blue Ridge was no doubt equally majestic in its early days. Over the millennia, nature's erosion has worn them down to the height we see them today. |
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Post by AuntieEm on May 30, 2019 20:32:54 GMT -5
Went to the Grand Tetons with my family once when I was a teenager. The snow capped mountains, wildflowers in bloom everywhere, pleasant weather - thought it was the most beautiful place on Earth.
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Post by JeriJet on May 31, 2019 0:08:05 GMT -5
And the poor Walton got stuck with the itsy-bitsy Blue Ridge Mountains!! I'd love to see the Grand Tetons in person.... yes the French had a sense of humor in naming them Grand Tétons. They probably assumed none of us dumb Yankees would know what it means.... |
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Post by goldfinch1 on May 31, 2019 18:16:59 GMT -5
Went to the Grand Tetons with my family once when I was a teenager. The snow capped mountains, wildflowers in bloom everywhere, pleasant weather - thought it was the most beautiful place on Earth. Oh it sounds just wonderful!😃🌸 |
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Post by Kyle on Jun 1, 2019 19:55:16 GMT -5
Henry Fonda was offered the role of John in “The Waltons” when it became a weekly series. He declined because he felt it was “the boy’s” show. I think he would have been a bit too old anyway.
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Post by nedandres on Jun 1, 2019 22:47:16 GMT -5
You remember Henry Fonda cast as Clay Spencer in Spencer's Mountain and Richard Thomas as John Boy in The Waltons TV series. Well both actors appeared not only together but as father & son in 1979 in Alex Haley's Roots. The Next Generations. Fonda cast as Colonel Frederick Warner & Richard his son Jim Warner who went off to college and studied, guess what? Poetry.. _ Here are a couple of images from Roots I enjoyed that miniseries, but it wasn't as good as the original "Roots," despite Richard Thomas' and Henry Fonda's presence. There were other Walton actors in it as well, including Lynn Hamilton. Ralph Waite, of course, was in the original as the captain of the slave ship. Ralph was nominated for an Emmy for that role, and he should have won. He was brilliant. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2019 6:38:03 GMT -5
You remember Henry Fonda cast as Clay Spencer in Spencer's Mountain and Richard Thomas as John Boy in The Waltons TV series. Well both actors appeared not only together but as father & son in 1979 in Alex Haley's Roots. The Next Generations. Fonda cast as Colonel Frederick Warner & Richard his son Jim Warner who went off to college and studied, guess what? Poetry.. _ Here are a couple of images from Roots
I enjoyed that miniseries, but it wasn't as good as the original "Roots," despite Richard Thomas' and Henry Fonda's presence. There were other Walton actors in it as well, including Lynn Hamilton. Ralph Waite, of course, was in the original as the captain of the slave ship. Ralph was nominated for an Emmy for that role, and he should have won. He was brilliant. Every time I see Ralph Waite as a deckhand of that slave ship, I can't help but think of him as a Walton. The name of the character he portrayed in Roots is Slater*, what if his full name was Slater Walton. The time period of Roots begins in 1750, Rome Walton settled on the mountain in 1789. Although there is no mention of a Slater Walton, just suppose Rome was his twin brother. There was something which caused a rift between them, that rift was when Slater signed on as a deckhand aboard the slave ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner)*. Rome is dead set against this as he sees slavery as a sin. Slater was killed by a group of rebels who staged a mutiny aboard the ship*. The one thing I find about The Waltons is the lack of any family resemblance between the characters, of course, this is something which cannot be helped. What I'm trying to convey is that in reality one or more members of a family bear some resemblance to one another and this can be handed down from one generation to the next. I was often mistaken for being the younger brother of my late uncle as we looked so much alike. I've also been told I looked more like my mother than I did my father. This how I see John Walton as a descendant of Slater Walton. The nine series of The Waltons ran from 1971, while there was only one season of Roots 1977. In those days I wasn't as fanatical about The Waltons as I now am. Whenever I first see an actor (Ralph Waite) playing a character (John Walton) I always associate him with the character when I first saw him. I have no record of seeing Ralph in anything before I saw him in Roots. When I saw him in that I said to myself, "there's John Walton," or words to that effect. Its the same with Patricia Neal (Olivia Walton) The Homecoming. I always associate her as Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1950) or 2E Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's. * Verified by IMDB and Wikipedia |
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Post by nedandres on Jun 2, 2019 14:59:41 GMT -5
Henry Fonda was offered the role of John in “The Waltons” when it became a weekly series. He declined because he felt it was “the boy’s” show. I think he would have been a bit too old anyway. Yes, he was. And Patricia Neal has said that she would have loved to play Olivia in the series, but she was never asked! What a different show it would have been had they both done it! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 2:45:21 GMT -5
Henry Fonda was offered the role of John in “The Waltons” when it became a weekly series. He declined because he felt it was “the boy’s” show. I think he would have been a bit too old anyway. Yes, he was. And Patricia Neal has said that she would have loved to play Olivia in the series, but she was never asked! What a different show it would have been had they both done it! Kyle's right about Fonda's age, there's only three years difference between him and Will Geer who was born in 1902, Fonda having been born in 1905. Andrew Duggan who played John in The Homecoming was born in 1923, while Ralph Waite was born five years later. Fonda died at his Los Angeles home on August 12, 1982, from heart disease. He suffered from prostate cancer, but this did not directly cause his death and was noted only as a concurrent ailment on his death certificate.* In view of this I feel by series 9 of The Waltons this would have limited Fonda's appearances on the show. It would also have meant a recasting of John for the six movie specials. No disrespect to Miss Patricia Neil, I don' think she had the same charisma as Michale Learned has in her role as Olivia. Contrary what she says about her loving to play Olivia, I've watched The Homecoming a number of times, the impression I get is, she seemed out of place working with children. Perhaps that's why she was never asked to play her. It wasn't only in The Waltons, where I noticed this, she played the mother of Bobby Benson (Billy Gray) in The Day The Earth Stood Still. *Source Wikipedia |
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Post by carol on Jun 3, 2019 13:20:31 GMT -5
Yes, he was. And Patricia Neal has said that she would have loved to play Olivia in the series, but she was never asked! What a different show it would have been had they both done it! Kyle's right about Fonda's age, there's only three years difference between him and Will Geer who was born in 1902, Fonda having been born in 1905. Andrew Duggan who played John in The Homecoming was born in 1923, while Ralph Waite was born five years later. Fonda died at his Los Angeles home on August 12, 1982, from heart disease. He suffered from prostate cancer, but this did not directly cause his death and was noted only as a concurrent ailment on his death certificate.* In view of this I feel by series 9 of The Waltons this would have limited Fonda's appearances on the show. It would also have meant a recasting of John for the six movie specials. No disrespect to Miss Patricia Neil, I don' think she had the same charisma as Michale Learned has in her role as Olivia. Contrary what she says about her loving to play Olivia, I've watched The Homecoming a number of times, the impression I get is, she seemed out of place working with children. Perhaps that's why she was never asked to play her. It wasn't only in The Waltons, where I noticed this, she played the mother of Bobby Benson (Billy Gray) in The Day The Earth Stood Still. *Source Wikipedia I've read that the reason why Ms Neal was not asked to play Olivia in the TV series is because she had just come back after suffering a massive stroke and they didn't think she could handle the strain of doing a weekly TV series. |
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