List of Little House on the Prairie characters

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There are many Little House on the Prairie characters, appearing in various forms of media in the Little House on the Prairie media franchise.

Contents

Television series characters

Cast timeline

ActorCharacter Pilot
movie
Little House on the Prairie A New
Beginning
Movie
specials
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Michael Landon Charles Ingalls MainGuest
Karen Grassle Caroline Ingalls MainDoes not appearGuest
Melissa Gilbert Laura Ingalls Wilder Main
Melissa Sue Anderson Mary Ingalls Kendall MainGuestDoes not appear
Lindsay Sidney Greenbush Carrie Ingalls MainDoes not appear
Dean Butler Almanzo Wilder Does not appearStarringMain
Katherine MacGregor Harriet OlesonDoes not appearStarringMainDoes not appear
Richard Bull Nels OlesonDoes not appearStarringMain
Victor French Isaiah Edwards GuestRecurringDoes not appearGuestDoes not appearRecurringMain
[a]
Kevin Hagen Dr. Hiram BakerDoes not appearStarring
Karl Swenson Lars HansonDoes not appearStarringGuestDoes not appear
Dabbs Greer Rev. Robert Alden Does not appearStarring
Charlotte Stewart Eva Beadle SimmsDoes not appearStarringDoes not appear
Ted Gehring Ebenezer SpragueDoes not appear [b] StarringDoes not appear
Jim Jeter Hans DorflerDoes not appearGuestStarringDoes not appearGuestDoes not appear
Alison Arngrim Nellie Oleson Dalton Does not appearRecurringStarringDoes not appearGuestDoes not appear
Jonathan Gilbert Willie OlesonDoes not appearRecurringStarring
Merlin Olsen Jonathan GarveyDoes not appearRecurringStarringDoes not appear
Hersha Parady Alice GarveyDoes not appear [c] RecurringStarringDoes not appear
Patrick Labyorteaux Andy GarveyDoes not appearRecurringStarringDoes not appear
Matthew Labyorteaux Albert Quinn Ingalls Does not appear [d] StarringGuest
Linwood Boomer Adam KendallDoes not appearGuestStarringDoes not appear
Lucy Lee Flippin Eliza Jane WilderDoes not appearStarringGuestRecurringDoes not appear
Steve Tracy Percival DaltonDoes not appearGuestStarringDoes not appear
Allison Balson Nancy OlesonDoes not appearStarring
Jason Bateman James Cooper IngallsDoes not appearGuestStarringDoes not appear
Missy Francis Cassandra Cooper IngallsDoes not appearGuestStarringDoes not appear
Wendi & Brenda Turnbaugh Grace Ingalls Does not appearRecurringStarringDoes not appear
Ketty Lester Hester-Sue TerhuneDoes not appear [e] RecurringStarringDoes not appear
Stan Ivar John CarterDoes not appearStarring
Pamela RoylanceSarah Reed CarterDoes not appearStarring
Lindsay KennedyJeb CarterDoes not appearStarring
David Friedman Jason CarterDoes not appearStarring
Shannen Doherty Jenny WilderDoes not appearStarring
Leslie Landon Etta PlumDoes not appear [f] Does not appear [f] Does not appear [f] Does not appear [f] Starring
Robert CasperSherwood MontagueDoes not appearGuestStarring
Sherri Stoner Rachel Brown OlesonDoes not appearGuestStarring
Cast notes
  1. These below cast members appear in the opening credits after the main characters but before the guest actors and crew credits. Unlike the main characters, they are only credited when they appear. In the first four seasons, they are credited under "The Town".
  2. Gehring initially appears as Ed Stacy in "Money Crop" (1.20).
  3. Parady initially appears as Eliza Ingalls in "Journey in the Spring" (3.6).
  4. Laborteaux initially appears as young Charles Ingalls in "Journey in the Spring" (3.6) and "I Remember, I Remember" (4.16).
  5. Lester initially appears as Janie Kagan in "The Fighter" (4.10).
  6. 1 2 3 4 Landon also appears as Leslie in "Plague" (1.18), Kate in "The Election" (3.20), an extra in "Harriet's Happening" (5.8), Marge Loren in "The Third Miracle" (6.4), Pam in "A Wiser Heart (8.5).

The Ingalls family

NameSeasonsNo. of
episodes
PortrayerCharacter summary
Charles Ingalls 1–9161 Michael Landon Farmer; husband, father and grandfather
Caroline Ingalls 1–8172 Karen Grassle Wife, mother, teacher and grandmother
Laura Ingalls Wilder 1–9190 Melissa Gilbert Daughter; became teacher, later Almanzo's wife and Rose's mother; nicknamed "Half-Pint" by Charles and "Beth" by Almanzo
Mary Ingalls 1–8133 Melissa Sue Anderson Daughter, eldest child; later Adam's wife and Adam Jr.'s mother
Carrie Ingalls 1–8164 Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush Daughter, youngest child at the beginning of the series
Charles Ingalls Jr. 12UnknownSon, died as an infant
Grace Ingalls 5–860Wendi and Brenda TurnbaughDaughter, youngest child
Albert (Quinn) Ingalls5–989 Matthew Labyorteaux Son, adopted after spending many years in orphanages and on the streets
JackThe dog of the family
James (Cooper) Ingalls7–821 Jason Bateman Son, adopted after birth parents were killed in a wagon accident
Cassandra (Cooper) Ingalls7–821 Missy Francis Daughter, adopted after birth parents were killed in a wagon accident
Rose Wilder 8–917Jennifer and Michele SteffinGranddaughter, daughter of Laura and Almanzo
BanditThe dog of the family

The in-laws

NameSeasonsNo. of
episodes
PortrayerCharacter summary
Almanzo Wilder 6–965 Dean Butler Farmer; Laura's husband (season 7); Rose's father; his friends called him Manly.
Jenny Wilder918 Shannen Doherty Almanzo's niece, whom he gets custody of after his brother/her father Royal dies
Eliza Jane Wilder6–814 Lucy Lee Flippin Teacher; Almanzo's older sister
Perley Day Wilder61Charles BloomAlmanzo and Eliza Jane’s youngest brother; gambler
Adam Kendall4–835 Linwood Boomer Teacher/Lawyer; Mary's husband (season 5)

Townsfolk

NameSeasonsNo. of
episodes
PortrayerCharacter summary
Nels Oleson1–9147 Richard Bull Mercantile proprietor; husband and father
Harriet Oleson1–9153 Katherine MacGregor Mercantile proprietor; wife and mother
Nellie Oleson 1–7, 9104 Alison Arngrim Oldest child of Nels and Harriet
Willie Oleson1–9140 Jonathan Gilbert Son of Nels and Harriet
Nancy Oleson8–933 Allison Balson Daughter of Nels and Harriet, adopted from orphanage
Percival Dalton/Isaac Cohen6–711 Steve Tracy Nellie’s husband
Rachel Brown Oleson92 Sherri Stoner Willie’s wife
Dr. Hiram Baker1–9113 Kevin Hagen Town physician
Reverend Robert Alden 1–976 Dabbs Greer Church minister
Melinda Foster1–961 Ruth Foster Post office manager
Isaiah Edwards 1–3, 6, 8–952 Victor French Charles’s best friend
Grace Snider Edwards1–3, 6, 823 Bonnie Bartlett / Corinne CamachoWife of Isaiah Edwards
John Sanderson Edwards2–48 Radames Pera Oldest child of Isaiah & Grace Edwards, adopted after first mother died
Alicia Sanderson Edwards2–3, 6, 819 Kyle Richards Youngest child of Isaiah & Grace Edwards, adopted after first mother died
Carl Sanderson Edwards2–3, 819 Brian Part / David R. KaufmanMiddle child of Isaiah & Grace Edwards, adopted after first mother died
Matthew Rogers95 Jonathan Hall Kovacs Young boy that is taken care of by Isaiah Edwards (season 9)
Jonathan Garvey4–751 Merlin Olsen Farmer; husband and father
Alice Garvey4–633 Hersha Parady Wife and mother; teacher; dies in fire with Adam Kendall Jr.
Andy Garvey4–743 Patrick Labyorteaux Son of Jonathan and Alice
Eva Beadle Simms1–445 Charlotte Stewart School teacher
Adam Simms42 Joshua Bryant Miss Beadle's husband
Lars Hanson1–541 Karl Swenson Lumber mill owner; a founder of Walnut Grove
Hester-Sue Terhune5–940 Ketty Lester Head of the school for the blind
John Carter919 Stan Ivar Blacksmith; husband and father
Sarah Carter915Pamela RoylanceStarts a newspaper; wife and mother
Jeb Carter918Lindsay KennedyOlder son of John and Sarah
Jason Carter918 David Friedman Younger son of John and Sarah
Susan Goodspeed4–716Michelle DowneyStudent at the school for the blind
Etta Plum915 Leslie Landon School teacher
Christy Kennedy1–210 Tracie Savage Schoolgirl
Sandy Kennedy14Robert HoffmanSchoolboy; Christy's brother
Hans Dorfler1–4, 69 James Jeter Resident of Walnut Grove; a stable-owner
Bill Anderson6–96 Sam Edwards Banker of Walnut Grove
Joe Kagan4–5, 75 Moses Gunn Aging boxer who retires to farm life in Walnut Grove
Judd Larrabee4–55 Don "Red" Barry Resident of Walnut Grove
Mrs. Amanda "May" Whipple1–45 Queenie Smith Resident of Walnut Grove; local seamstress
Mr. Kennedy14 Wayne Heffley Resident of Walnut Grove; father of Christy and Sandy
Mrs. Kennedy1–23 Eileen Ryan (season 1),
Janice Carroll (season 2)
Resident of Walnut Grove; mother of Christy and Sandy
Ebenezer Sprague2–34 Ted Gehring Banker of Walnut Grove
Houston Lamb6–74 Dub Taylor Works and lives at the school for the blind in Sleepy Eye
Henry Riley4–915Dan McBriderecurring role - customer in Nellie's Restaurant arguing
Kezia Horn4–53 Hermione Baddeley Resident of Walnut Grove and friend of Laura and Albert
Johnny Johnson12 Mitch Vogel Schoolboy love interest of Laura

One-shot characters

Season one

Season two

Season three

Season four

  • Episode 2
  • Episode 3
    • Ellen Taylor (played by Mia Bendixsen)
    • Eloise Taylor (played by Corinne Michaels)
    • Cal Taylor (played by James Wainwright)
  • Episode 4
  • Episode 6
    • Bailey Farrell (played by Bernard Behrens)
    • Timothy Farrell (played by Johnny Doran)
  • Episode 7
  • Episode 8
    • Mr. Dankworth (played by Dennis Rucker)
    • Mr. Hobbs (played by John Bennett Perry)
    • Bob Ford (played by Tony Marks)
    • Lewis Ford (played by Frank Marth)
  • Episode 9
  • Episode 14
    • Samantha Higgins (played by Seeley Ann Thumann)
    • Jimmy Hill (played by Chris Petersen)
  • Episode 15
    • Nats Rachel Peal (played by Anita Dangler)
    • Caleb Fisher (played by John McLiam)
    • Katie Fisher (played by Linda McMillan)
    • Ellen Fisher (played by Dee Croxton)
  • Episode 16
    • Jordan Harrison (played by Ronnie Scribner)
    • Young Caroline (played by Katy Kurtzman)
    • Younger Laura Colby Ingalls (played by Sarah Miller)
    • Mr. Watson (played by Sorrell Booke)
    • Harold Watson (played by Adam Gunn)
    • Peter Ingalls (played by David Considine)
    • Henry Quiner-Holbrook (played by Gregg Forrest)
    • Polly Ingalls (played by Robin Muir)
    • Eliza Ann Quiner-Holbrook (played by Kristi Jill Wood)
    • Lansford Ingalls (played by Nicolas Coster)
    • Charlotte Holbrook (played by Virginia Kiser)
    • Young Charles Ingalls (played by Matthew Labyorteaux)
  • Episode 17
    • Bobby Harris (played by Michael Mullins)
    • Anna Mears (played by Lenora May)
    • Shaniel Mears (played by Donald Moffat)
    • Rev. Pritchard (played by Woodrow Parfrey)
  • Episode 21
    • Dr. Burke (played by Ford Rainey)
    • Miseth Barton (played by Rob Kenneally)

Season five

  • Episode 4
    • John Bevins (played by Cliff Emmich)
    • Bess Bevins (played by Kate Woodville)
    • Amelia Bevins (played by Julie Ann Haddock)
  • Episode 8
    • Erich Schiller (played by Ike Eisenmann)
    • Otto Schiller (played by King Moody)
    • Anna Schiller (played by Lisa Pera)
  • Episode 15
    • Isaac Singerman (played by John Bleifer)
    • Aaron Singerman (played by Alvin Kupperman)
  • Episode 18
    • Miss Elliot (played by Ellen Regan)
    • Holly (played by Martha Nix)
    • Giles Kendall (played by Philip Abbott)
  • Episode 20
    • Adele Larrabee (played by Joan Tompkins—wife of Karl Swenson)
  • Episode 22
    • Leslie Harper (played by Jenny Sullivan)
    • Samantha Harper (played by Kyle Richards)
    • Bret Harper (played by Charles Cioffi)
    • Thomas Harper (played by Bobby Rolofson)
  • Episode 24
    • Dylan Whitaker (played by Steve Shaw)

Season six

  • Episode 3
  • Episode 6
  • Episode 9
    • Milo Stavroupolis (played by Leo Gordon)
    • Anna Stavroupolis (played by Nora Meerbaum)
  • Episode 10
    • Rev. Danforth (played by James Olson)
  • Episode 12
  • Episode 13
  • Episode 20
    • Penelope Parker (played by Stacey Sipes)
  • Episode 21
  • Episode 22

Season seven

Season eight

  • Episode 1
    • Miss Mason (played by Elizabeth Hoffman)
  • Episode 4
    • Dr. Caleb Ledoux (played by Don Marshall)
    • Mattie Ledoux (played by Marlene Warfield)
  • Episode 5
    • Mortimer Carstairs (played by Patrick Collins)
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson (played by George Petrie)
  • Episode 6
    • Amy Cassidy (played by Martha Nix)
    • Rodolfo Gambini (played by Jack Kruschen)
    • Ana Rosa Gambini (played by Gloria Manos)
    • Marco Gambini (played by Stephen Manley)
    • Stefano Gambini (played by Robert Torti)
  • Episode 7
    • Max (played by Todd Susman)
    • Georgie (played by Royce D. Applegate)
  • Episode 8
  • Episode 9
    • Elmer Miles (played by J.Brennan Smith)
  • Episode 10
    • Major Guffey (played by Laurie Main)
  • Episode 12
    • Gideon Hale (played by Peter Billingsley)
    • Braden Hale (played by Dennis Howard)
    • Mrs. Hale (played by Jennifer Rhodes)
  • Episode 14
  • Episode 16
    • Sam Terhune (played by J.A. Preston)
    • Naomi Terhune (played by Marguerite DeLain)
  • Episode 20
    • Sherman Andruss (played by Dennis Lipscomb)
    • Helen Andruss (played by Judith Weston)
    • Louisa Beckwith (played by Ruth Silveira)
    • Horace Beckwith (played by Calvin Bartlett)
    • Nora Cramer (played by Betty McGuire)
  • Episode 21
  • Episode 22

Season nine

Post-series movies

  • Little House: The Last Farewell

Animals

Ingalls' and Wilder's genealogy

The Ingalls family

Charles Ingalls Caroline Quiner James Wilder Angeline Day
Mary IngallsCarrie IngallsCharles Frederic IngallsGrace IngallsLaura WilderRoyal WilderEliza Jane WilderAlice WilderPerley Wilder
Laura IngallsAlmanzo Wilder
Rose WilderUnnamed son
Henry Ingalls and Joan/Johan Wytton
Robert Ingalls(1563–1617) and Elizabeth ?(1567–1631)
Edmund Ingalls(1598–1648) and Ann Tripp(1599–1648)
Henry Ingalls(1627–1718) and Mary Osgood(1633–1686)
Samuel Ingalls(1654–1733) and Sarah Hendrick(1661–1738)
Samuel Ingalls Jr.(1683–1747) and Mary E. Watts(1687–?)
Timothy Ingalls(1720–1757) and ?


Jonathan Delano(b.1647) and Mercy Warren(1658–1727) (gdau. of Richard Warren of the Mayflower)
Jonathan Delano(b.1680) and Amy Hatch(b.1687)
Jabez Delano(b.1708) and Prudence Hibbard(b.1711)


Matthew Colby(b.1530) and (from 1555) Mary (last name unknown)(b.1532)
Thomas Colby(b.1567) and (from May 4, 1596) Anne Jackson(b.1571)
Anthony Colby(b.1605) and (from 1632) Susanna Haddon(b.1608)
John Colby(b.1633) and (from January 14, 1655) Frances Hoyt(b.1636)
John Colby(b.1656) and (from December 27, 1675) Sarah Eldridge(b.1658)
Joseph Colby(b.1680) and (from November 22, 1704) Anne Bartlett(b.1684)
Nathan Colby(b.1710) and (from December 18, 1735) Hannah Worthen(b.1716)
Jonathan Ingalls (1750–1834)
&
Martha Jane Locke (1753–1785)
Jonathan Delano (1735–1811)
&
Anne Ladd (1734–1816)
Ezekiel Colby (1739–1791)
&
Sally Fowler (1734–1834)
Elijah Blood (1748–1826)
&
Eunice Sleeman (1758–1811)
Samuel Ingalls (1771–1841)Margaret Delano (1773–1837)Nathan Colby (1778–1857)Eunice Blood (1782–1862)
Lansford Ingalls (1812–1896) Laura Colby (1810–1883)
Peter Ingalls (1833–1900)Aaron Ingalls (1835–1835) Charles Ingalls (1836–1902)Lydia Ingalls (1838–1913)Polly Ingalls (1840–1886)Lansford Ingalls (1842–1928)Laura Ingalls (1845–1918)Hiram Ingalls (1848–1923)George Ingalls (1851–1901)Ruby Ingalls (1855–1881)

Based on the data from : The Genealogy of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder

NOTE: A second daughter of Ruby Ingalls Card, Lettie Letishia Card Anderson, is listed as being born in 1888, seven years after Ruby's death. How this is possible is unknown.

The Quiner family

William Quiner (1773–1831)Margaret Doer
(1774–1839)
Lewis Tucker (1779–1870)Martha Gráinne Morse (1772–1862)
Henry Quiner (1809–1844) Charlotte Tucker (1809–1884)Frederic M. Holbrook (1819-1874)
Martha Quiner (1832–1836)Joseph Quiner (1834–1862)Henry Quiner (1835–1880)Martha Quiner (1837–1927) Caroline Quiner (1839–1924)Eliza Quiner (1842–1931)Thomas Quiner (1844–1903)Charlotte Holbrook (1854–1939)

(Laura's maternal great-great-grandparents)
Allan Alexander Morse and Margaret Drummond *These are fictional names. Real names unknown.

(Laura's maternal great-grandparents)
Lewis Tucker(1779–1870) and Martha Gráinne Morse(1772–1862)
William Quiner(1773–1831) and Margaret Doer(1774–1839)

(Laura's maternal grandparents)
Charlotte Tucker and Henry Quiner

THEIR CHILDREN (Laura's aunts and uncles) :

Henry Quiner died in October 1844 in the sinking of a trading ship on the Great Lakes. Charlotte Tucker Quiner remarried, to Frederic Holbrook, and they had one child

Charlotte Tucker

Lewis TuckerMartha Morse
(1782–1862)
Betsy Tucker (1800–?)Lewis Tucker (1802–?)Linus Tucker (1802–?)Lydia Tucker
(1805–?)
Thomas Tucker (1807–?)Charlotte Tucker
(1809–1884)
Caroline Tucker (1811–?)Mary Tucker
(1813–?)
Nancy Tucker (1816–?)George Tucker(1820–1821)

Charlotte Wallis Tucker was born on May 25, 1809, in Roxbury, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston). She died September 20, 1884, in Rome, Wisconsin. Her mostly fictionalised story was described in the four-book series The Charlotte Years by Melissa Wiley. Charlotte was maternal grandmother to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

As a young woman, Charlotte married Henry Newton Quiner from Connecticut. She was the first woman in her family to travel west, living in Ohio and Indiana before settling in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Martha Morse

Allan Alexander MorseMargaret Drummond
Grisell "Grisie" Morse (b. 1774)Alisdair Morse (b.1776)Robert "Robbie" Morse (b.1778)Duncan Morse (b.1780)Martha Morse
(1782–1862)

Martha Morse was born on January 2, 1782, in Scotland, where her father was a wealthy landowners in the Scottish Highlands. Her mostly fictionalised story was told in the four-book series The Martha Years , by Melissa Wiley. Martha was Charlotte Tucker's mother and great-grandmother to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Martha married Lewis Tucker, a blacksmith's son. Lewis and Martha travelled to the United States and began their new life near Boston, Massachusetts, becoming the first of Laura's ancestors to immigrate to America.

The Wilder family

Daniel Wilder (1764–1851)Mary Polly Gould (1765–1828)Thomas PayneSarah Stewart Mason
Abel Wilder (1784–1849)Hannah Payne (1790–1842)
Royal Gould Wilder (1809–1815)Thomas Payne Wilder (1811–?)James Mason Wilder(1813-1899)Hannah Payne Wilder (1814–1891)Royal Gould Wilder (1816–1887)Phoebe Wilder (1821–1890)Polly Maria Wilder (1824–1851)William Wilder (1828–1909)Sarah Charlotte Wilder (1820–1892)Joshua Prince Wilder (1832–1832)

The Day family

Justin Day, I
Justin Day, II
(1790–1861)
Diadema Bateman (1794–1868)
Laura Day (1819–?)Delia Day (1824–?)Angelina Albina Day(1819-1905)Celinda A.Day (1826–?)Andrew Day
(1828–1894)
John Wesley Day (1829–1907)George W.Day (1821–1872)

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