Fifty-three years ago, the made-for-TV movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story first brought the Waltons onto American TV screens. In the decades since, the Depression-era Virginia family has ...

Laidman got his start in Hollywood at Universal as an A.D. on such films as Airport (1970), Red Sky at Morning (1971) - starring future Waltons star Richard Thomas - and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 ...