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Little House on the Prairie star Karen Grassle is best known for playing Caroline Ingalls on the NBC series. What is Grassle doing now? Here’s what we know.

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One of Grassle’s early acting roles was in a 1951 episode of Love of Life. After that, she appeared in a 1969 episode of New York Television Theatre. In 1974, Grassle played Fran in an episode of Gunsmoke titled “The Wiving.”

Grassle made her film debut in the 1981 movie Harry’s War, in which she played Kathy. She has also appeared in many TV movies. Some of her TV movie appearances include roles in Emily, Emily; Battered; and Between the Darkness and Dawn. She has also appeared in Wyatt Earp, Harry’s War, and The President’s Mistress.

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James Karen, who starred in over 200 films and TV shows including “Poltergeist,” died Tuesday at the age of 94.

Karen is best known as Mr. Teague, the infamous real estate developer who built a suburb community over a graveyard, angering the spirits who laid there. In the film’s horrific climax, Steven Freeling, played by Craig T. Nelson, grabs Teague and hysterically yells, “You only moved the headstones!”

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Karen also starred in the cult film “Return of the Living Dead,” where he played the manager of a medical warehouse who accidentally releases a gas that raises the dead in a nearby graveyard. He also had roles in films like “All The President’s Men,” “Mulholland Drive,” and “The Pursuit of Happyness,” among many others.

On the TV side, Karen regularly appeared on the soap opera “As The World Turns” and got another role...

Whether you know him as Mr. Teague from Poltergeist, Frank from The Return of the Living Dead, or even Nathan Lassiter from Little House: The Last Farewell, James Karen was as versatile, prolific, and talented an actor as they come, and we're sad to share the news that he has passed away at the age of 94.

Multiple sources have shared the sad news of James' passing, including The Hollywood Reporter, who mention that his wife, Alba, confirmed the news that James passed away at his house in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 23rd.

With over 200 credits on IMDb in an acting career that spanned eight decades, James was a frequent presence on both the big and small screens for an entire lifetime. While he worked in many genres throughout his career, James held a special place in horror lovers' hearts for his memorable roles in a variety of films and TV series,...

In 1974, TV audiences were introduced to the Ingalls family, a frontier clan living in a rustic cabin in the Minnesota wilderness during the 1870s and '80s. America was in the middle of its Me Decade, with an exhausting war and general upheaval at home. The weekly dramas of a farmer and his children—based on the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder—were an irresistible look at a simpler time when people based their lives around family, home, and church. (All nine seasons are available on Digital HD on Amazon; seasons 1–3 are also available on Blu-ray and DVD from Lionsgate.