[msb-alumni] O.T. Little House's Richard Bull passed away
- From: "Vickie" <rolisonv@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "MSB Alumni" <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 00:15:06 -0700
Richard Bull, starred in 'Little House'; at 89 By Lynn Elber Associated Press
February
07, 2014 LOS ANGELES - Richard Bull, who played shopkeeper and put-upon spouse
Nels
Oleson on television's "Little House on the Prairie," has died. He was 89. Mr.
Bull
died Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's hospital, fund spokeswoman
Jaime Larkin said. The actor, a resident of what was once known as the Motion
Picture
and TV home, died of natural causes after being hospitalized with pneumonia,
Larkin
said Tuesday. "Everyone loved him so much," said Bull's "Little House" costar
Alison
Arngrim, who played his daughter, Nellie, and remained close to him. "People are
posting [condolences] in six different languages on my Facebook page. Mr. Bull
"was
as Nels Oleson as you'd possibly want someone to be," Arngrim said. "He was
calm,
rational, sensible. The Illinois-born character actor appeared in a wide range
of
television shows, from "Perry Mason" in the 1950s to "Mannix" in the 1
960s to Kelsey Grammer's "Boss" in 2011. Mr. Bull played opposite his wife of 65
years, actress Barbara Collentine, in several projects. Among the movies he
appeared
in were "High Plains Drifter" and "Executive Action," both in 1973. Dean Butler,
who played Almanzo James Wilder on the 1974-83 NBC series inspired by Laura
Ingalls
Wilder's novels about her 19th-century prairie family's life, recalled his
friend.
"Richard was a very generous, soft-spoken actor with a wonderful appetite for
work,"
Butler said. "He always made it [acting] look so easy. Melissa Gilbert, who
starred
in the series with Michael Landon (who died in 1991), tweeted: "This man will be
missed. Goodbye Richard working with you was such a joy but nearly as joyful as
being
your friend. Mr. Bull and Collentine, also 89, moved to the Motion Picture &
Television
Fund home from Chicago in September 2012, Larkin said. Another "Little House"
cast
member became a resident, said Butler: Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor
, who played Oleson's memorable wife, Harriet. After Mr. Bull's death,
Collentine
and MacGregor had dinner together Monday night and agreed "they had both lost a
wonderful
husband," Butler said.
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