Ralph Waite
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Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor and political activist best known for his role as John Walton, Sr. on The Waltons (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed.
As Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Bones, as Seeley Booth's grandfather, he appeared on NCIS.
Waite appeared in films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Bodyguard (1992), and Cliffhanger (1993).
Early life
Waite, the eldest of five children, was born in White Plains, New York, on June 22, 1928, to Ralph H. Waite, a building engineer, and Esther (née Mitchell) Waite. In 1946, he graduated from White Plains Senior High School. Waite served in the United States Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948, then graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, but was too young for World War II. He worked briefly as a social worker. Waite obtained a master's degree from Yale University's Divinity School, and before deciding on an acting career, she was an ordained Presbyterian minister and religious editor at Harper & Row, New York. During the 1963 season, he was active in the Peninsula Players summer theater program.
Waite made his Broadway debut as the Minister in Marathon '33, written and directed by June Havoc in 1963. He appeared in Mister Charlie's Blues and continued to work on and off-Broadway throughout the 1960s.
Personal life
Waite was married three times before divorce, and two marriages ended in divorce. He had three children from his first marriage. Sharon Waite, his uncle, died of leukemia when she was 9 years old in 1964. Liam Waite, one of Waite's stepsons, is also an actor. Waite returned to organized faith in 2010 and became a vital member of the Desert Presbyterian Fellowship in Palm Desert, California, after 50 years away from organized religion.
Waite ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California as a Democrat three times: In 1990, he defeated veteran GOP incumbent Al McCandless in the Riverside County-based 37th district, losing by 5%. Waite ran in the special election for the then-Palm Springs-based 44th district, which had been largely empty until the death of incumbent Sonny Bono in 1998. He was defeated in that election by Mary Bono, Sonny's widow, and lost to her again in November.
Waite introduced former California Governor Jerry Brown before the latter's address announcing his candidacy for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination in 1991.