Jonathan Gilbert
{{Short description|American television and film actor (born 1967)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jonathan Gilbert
| image = Jonathan Gilbert.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption =
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|stockbroker}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|4|28}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| father = Paul Gilbert
| relatives = Melissa Gilbert (sister)
Sara Gilbert (sister)
| years_active = {{Plain list |
- 1974–1984 (actor)
- 1984–present (stockbroker)
}}
| birth_name = Jonathan J. Gilbert
}}
Jonathan J. Gilbert (born April 28, 1967) is an American former television and film actor known for his role as Willie Oleson on the TV series Little House on the Prairie.
Personal life
Gilbert was born on April 28, 1967.{{Cite web |title=California Birth Index, 1905–1995 |url=http://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/jonathan_j_gilbert_born_1967_9868232 |access-date=August 19, 2016 |website=Los Angeles County Department of Health Services |publisher=Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors |location=Los Angeles County, California}} He is the adopted son of actors Barbara Cowen (née Barbara Crane) and Paul Gilbert and adopted brother of actresses Melissa Gilbert and Sara Gilbert.{{sfn|Davis|2009|page=20}}
In Melissa Gilbert's autobiography, she wrote that when Jonathan was 18, he moved away from California and she had no relationship with him since then, for reasons supposedly unknown to her. Her autobiography states that he is a stockbroker living in New York City.{{sfn|Gilbert|2010}}
He reunited with his sister, Melissa, and the cast of Little House for the 50th anniversary reunion of the show in Simi Valley on March 22, 2024.{{Cite web |date=2012-05-16 |title=Melissa Gilbert And Her Brother on Little House On The... |url=https://www.knittingparadise.com/threads/melissa-gilbert-and-her-brother-on-little-house-on-the-prairie.769841/ |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=Knitting and Crochet Forum |language=en-US}}{{cite web | title=Little House on the Prairie celebrates 50 years with a fan festival | website=USA TODAY | date=2024-04-17 | url=https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/tv/2024/04/16/little-house-on-the-prairie-celebrates-50-years/73217340007/ | access-date=2025-03-22}}
Acting career
Gilbert is best known for his performance as Willie Oleson on the NBC TV series, Little House on the Prairie, from 1974 to 1983.{{cite web | last=Trujillo | first=Laura | title=Little House on the Prairie show celebrates 50 years | website=USA TODAY | date=2024-04-17 | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2024/04/17/little-house-on-the-prairie-tv-show-50-years/73094869007/ | access-date=2024-12-21}} He is also one of only six actors on Little House on the Prairie to appear throughout the entire series, along with Melissa Gilbert, Katherine MacGregor, Richard Bull, Kevin Hagen and Dabbs Greer. In 1979, Gilbert was in the made for TV movie The Little House Years also as Willie Oleson. Also in 1979, he was in the made-for-TV Movie The Miracle Worker as Jimmy.
He was in two out of the three made-for-TV movies based on the Little House on the Prairie TV series (Little House: Look Back to Yesterday and Little House: The Last Farewell).{{Cite web |title=Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (TV Movie 1983) |website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085855/fullcredits/ |access-date=November 2, 2017}}{{Cite web |title=Little House: The Last Farewell (TV Movie 1984) |website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087631/fullcredits/ |access-date=November 2, 2017}}
Filmography
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"|Notes |
|---|
| 1974–1983
|rowspan=2|Willie Oleson | Recurring role |
| rowspan=2|1979
| TV movie and archive footage |
| The Miracle Worker
| Jimmy | TV movie{{Cite web |title=The Miracle Worker |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414866/the-miracle-worker#credits |access-date=August 19, 2016 |website=Turner Classic Movies |publisher=Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner) |location=Atlanta}} |
| 1983
| Little House: Look Back to Yesterday | rowspan=2|Willie Oleson | TV movie |
| 1984
| Little House: The Last Farewell | TV movie{{sfn|Democrat and Chronicle Staff|1996|page=44}} |
References
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=Sources=
{{Refbegin}}
- {{Cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Melissa |author-link=Melissa Gilbert |title=Prairie Tale: A Memoir |publisher=Gallery Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1416599173 |edition=1st |location=New York City |page=114}}
- {{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Patti |author-link=Patti Davis |url=https://archive.org/details/livesourmothersl00davi |title=The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us: Prominent Women Discuss the Complex, Humorous, and Ultimately Loving Relationships They Have with Their Mothers |publisher=Hay House |year=2009 |isbn=978-1401921620 |location=Carlsbad, California |page=[https://archive.org/details/livesourmothersl00davi/page/20 20] |url-access=registration}}
- {{Cite news |last=Democrat and Chronicle Staff |date=June 30, 1996 |title=TCM Little House: The Last Farewell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/136040793/ |access-date=September 10, 2016 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |publisher=Gannett Company |location=Rochester, New York |page=44}} {{Subscription required}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|318116|Jonathan Gilbert}}
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Category:American male child actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:Male actors from Los Angeles
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