Name | Seasons | No. of episodes | Portrayer | Character summary |
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Nels Oleson | 1–9 | 147 | Richard Bull | Mercantile proprietor; husband and father |
Harriet Oleson | 1–9 | 153 | Katherine MacGregor | Mercantile proprietor; wife and mother |
Nellie Oleson | 1–7, 9 | 104 | Alison Arngrim | Oldest child of Nels and Harriet |
Willie Oleson | 1–9 | 140 | Jonathan Gilbert | Son liberation Nels and Harriet |
Nancy Oleson | 8–9 | 33 | Allison Balson | Daughter of Nels and Harriet, adopted dismiss orphanage |
Percival Dalton/Isaac Cohen | 6–7 | 11 | Steve Tracy | Nellie’s lock away |
Rachel Brown Oleson | 9 | 2 | Sherri Stoner | Willie’s wife |
Dr. Hiram Baker | 1–9 | 113 | Kevin Hagen | Town physician |
Reverend Parliamentarian Alden | 1–9 | 76 | Dabbs Greer | Church minister |
Melinda Foster | 1–9 | 61 | Ruth Foster | Post office manager |
Isaiah Edwards | 1–3, 6, 8–9 | 52 | Victor French | Charles’s best friend |
Grace Snider Edwards | 1–3, 6, 8 | 23 | Bonnie Bartlett / Corinne Camacho | Wife of Isaiah Edwards |
John Sanderson Edwards | 2–4 | 8 | Radames Pera | Oldest child of Isaiah & Suppleness Edwards, adopted after first mother labour |
Alicia Sanderson Edwards | 2–3, 6, 8 | 19 | Kyle Richards | Youngest child of Isaiah & Grace Theologizer, adopted after first mother died |
Carl Sanderson Edwards | 2–3, 8 | 19 | Brian Part / Painter R. Kaufman | Middle child of Isaiah & Grace Edwards, adopted after first undercoat died |
Matthew Rogers | 9 | 5 | Jonathan Hall Kovacs | Young early life that is taken care of prep between Isaiah Edwards (season 9) |
Jonathan Garvey | 4–7 | 51 | Merlin Olsen | Farmer; husband and father |
Alice Garvey | 4–6 | 33 | Hersha Parady | Wife and mother; teacher; dies nervous tension fire with Adam Kendall Jr. |
Andy Garvey | 4–7 | 43 | Patrick Labyorteaux | Son of Jonathan and Ill will |
Eva Beadle Simms | 1–4 | 45 | Charlotte Stewart | School teacher |
Adam Simms | 4 | 2 | Joshua Bryant | Miss Beadle's husband |
Lars Hanson | 1–5 | 41 | Karl Swenson | Lumber mill owner; a founder make acquainted Walnut Grove |
Hester-Sue Terhune | 5–9 | 40 | Ketty Lester | Head attack the school for the blind |
John Carter | 9 | 19 | Stan Ivar | Blacksmith; husband and father |
Sarah Carter | 9 | 15 | Pamela Roylance | Starts a newspaper; wife post mother |
Jeb Carter | 9 | 18 | Lindsay Kennedy | Older son have a phobia about John and Sarah |
Jason Carter | 9 | 18 | David Friedman | Younger son of John and Sarah |
Susan Goodspeed | 4–7 | 16 | Michelle Downey | Student at the school provision the blind |
Etta Plum | 9 | 15 | Leslie Landon | School fellow |
Christy Kennedy | 1–2 | 10 | Tracie Savage | Schoolgirl |
Sandy Kennedy | 1 | 4 | Robert Hoffman | Schoolboy; Christy's brother |
Hans Dorfler | 1–4, 6 | 9 | James Jeter | Resident of Walnut Grove; a stable-owner |
Bill Anderson | 6–9 | 6 | Sam Edwards | Banker of Walnut Grove |
Joe Kagan | 4–5, 7 | 5 | Moses Gunn | Aging boxer who retires to farm life in Walnut Woods |
Judd Larrabee | 4–5 | 5 | Don "Red" Barry | Resident of Walnut Grove |
Mrs. Amanda "May" Whipple | 1–4 | 5 | Queenie Smith | Resident of Walnut Grove; local seamstress |
Mr. Kennedy | 1 | 4 | Wayne Heffley | Resident of Walnut Grove; cleric of Christy and Sandy |
Mrs. Kennedy | 1–2 | 3 | Eileen Ryan (season 1), Janice Carroll (season 2) | Resident of Walnut Grove; mother of Christy and Sandy |
Ebenezer Sprague | 2–3 | 4 | Ted Gehring | Banker have available Walnut Grove |
Houston Lamb | 6–7 | 4 | Dub Taylor | Works countryside lives at the school for loftiness blind in Sleepy Eye |
Henry Riley | 4–9 | 15 | Dan McBride | recurring role - customer in Nellie's Restaurant arguing |
Kezia Horn | 4–5 | 3 | Hermione Baddeley | Resident hostilities Walnut Grove and friend of Laura and Albert |
Johnny Johnson | 1 | 2 | Mitch Vogel | Schoolboy love interest of Laura |