Ralph Dexter Waite Jr. of Collegeville Ralph Dexter Waite, Jr. of Coatesville, PA, age 76, passed away on December 5, 2015 surrounded by his family. Ralph, the son of Ralph D. and Naomi (nee Mackwa… ...

Ralph Waite, who played the good-hearted but soft-spoken patriarch on the 1970s U.S. television drama "The Waltons," died on Thursday in Southern California, the actor's manager said. He was 85.

In the 1970’s millions of American viewers got to know Ralph White as the patriarch in the popular television series The Waltons, and in recent years younger viewers got to know him through the ...

Michael Learned and Ralph Waite on 'The Waltons' in 1978. NEED TO KNOW. Stars of The Waltons gathered together on June 6 and 7 at The Hollywood Show in Burbank, Calif.

Michael Learned and Ralph Waite are seen here attending the signing of Mary McDonough's book on April 16, 2011, in West Hollywood, California. Waite died in 2014.

PORTER CORNERS – Ralph S. Waite (a.k.a. “”Big Scat, Big Bull, Chief””), 72, a lifelong resident of Plank Road, died Wednesday evening, June 27, 2012, at his home, following a long ...

First Posted: 2/14/2014 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ralph Waite, who played the kind-and-steady patriarch of a tight-knit rural Southern family on the TV series “The Waltons,” died Thursday, his ...