Michael Learned

Michael Learned (born on April 9, 1938 in Washington, D.C., but lived on a farm with her 5 sisters for the first 10 years of her life) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Olivia Walton" on The Waltons, which she played from 1972 to 1979. She was billed as Miss Michael Learned because she was relatively unknown at the time, and producers did not want confusion among viewers about her gender. In 1979, her contract was not renewed on The Waltons, and her disappearance was explained by her Olivia Walton developing TB and having an extended stay in a sanitarium. To facilitate this realistically, she did make occasional guest appearances in the programme right up to it was cancelled.

Filmography

1960s

• The Other Man (1963)
• Wojeck (1968)

1970s

• The Waltons (1972-1979) (as Miss Michael Learned)
• Gunsmoke (1973)
• Match Game 73 (1974)
• Hurricane (1974)
• It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974)
• Police Story (1974)
• Widow (1976)
• (1978)
• Little Mo (1978)
• The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978)
• (1979)

1980s

• Nurse (1980 film) (1980)
• Touched by Love (1980)
• A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
• Nurse (1981 film) (1981)
• Politics of Poison (1982)
• Night of 100 Stars (1982)
• Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain (1982)
• The Parade (1984)
• St. Elsewhere (1984)
• Power (1986)
• All My Sons (1986)
• A Deadly Business (1986)
• Picnic (1986 film) (1986)
• Mercy or Murder? (1987)
• Hothouse (film) (1988)
• (1988)
• Living Dolls (1989)
• Murder, She Wrote (1989)
• Who's the Boss? (film) (1989)

1990s

• (1990)
• Wiseguy (1990)
• (1991)
• (1991)
• Keeping Secrets (1991)
• Mattie's Waltz (1992)
• (1993)
• A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993)
• The American Revolution (1994)
• Reading Rainbow (1994)
• The Secret World of Alex Mack (1995)
• A Walton Wedding (1995)
• A Walton Easter (1997)
• Life During Wartime (1997)
• A Father for Brittany (1998)
• Profiler (1998)
• Promised Land (1998)

2000s

• For the Love of May (2000)
• (2000)
• So Graham Norton (2000)
• The Best of So Graham Norton (2000)
• CBS at 75 (2003)
• (2003)
• TV total (2004)
• All My Children (2005)
• Lethal Eviction (2005)
• Loggerheads (2005)
• One Life to Live (2005)