Ralph Waite, who played the kind patriarch of a tight-knit rural Southern family on the TV series “The Waltons,” has died. He was 85.

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‘My spiritual husband’: Michael Learned, who play Ralph’s televisionwife Olivia Walton, called her co-star a ‘good honest actor and a good honest man’
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