Profile of Michael Learned on Famous Like Me

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.

After she left The Waltons, she starred as nurse "Mary Benjamin" in the hospital drama Nurse, which ran on NBC during the 1981-82 season. She also had a starring role in the 1989 sitcom Living Dolls, and reprised her Waltons role for a number of TV movies/reunions in the 1990s.

Currently, she is playing "Judge Helen Turner" on the ABC soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live during the baby switch storyline currently playing out on both shows.

She has been married three times. The first time was at age 18 to Canadian-American actor Peter Donat between 1956-1972, which ended in divorce, although it produced three children. Her second marriage, to Glenn Chadwick, lasted from 1975-1977 again ending in divorce; she has been married to William Parker since 1979.

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)
• CBS: On the Air (1978)
• Little Mo (1978)
• The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978)
• The Television Annual: 1978/1979 (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)
• Roots: The Gift (1988)
• Living Dolls (1989)
• Murder, She Wrote (1989)
• Who's the Boss? (film) (1989)

1990s

• Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
• Wiseguy (1990)
• Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
• Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991)
• Keeping Secrets (1991)
• Mattie's Waltz (1992)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (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)
• Pensacola: Wings of Gold (2000)
• So Graham Norton (2000)
• The Best of So Graham Norton (2000)
• CBS at 75 (2003)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003)
• TV total (2004)
• All My Children (2005)
• Lethal Eviction (2005)
• Loggerheads (2005)
• One Life to Live (2005)

External link

• Michael Learned at the Internet Movie Database

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