“Little Home on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert shared an emotional tribute to her sequence co-star Jack Lilley, who died on the age of 91 on the Movement Image & Tv Fund retirement residence on Wednesday.
Lilley performed a stagecoach driver and different roles throughout a number of seasons on “Little Home on the Prairie. Gilbert took to Instagram to honor her late buddy and colleague.
“The little home household has misplaced one in every of our personal,” Gilbert wrote. “He taught me easy methods to trip a horse once I was only a wee little factor. He was so affected person with me. He by no means mentioned no once I would certain as much as him squealing, ‘Can we go trip? Please, please, please?’”
Along with wanting again on “Little Home” reminiscences, Gilbert additionally chronicled Lilley’s lengthy movie and tv profession, together with reuniting with Gilbert on a Western pilot referred to as “Then Got here Jones,” which additionally starred a then-unknown Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
“It was a pleasure to shoot and I used to be so bummed when it didn’t get picked up. It was all very synchronistic,” Gilbert shared. “Our first learn although was at Paramount Studios, the place we had shot Little Home the primary 4 years. I additionally came upon we’d be taking pictures at Large Sky Ranch, the place we had shot ‘Little Home’…I walked to the set itself and earlier than I may even focus I heard a well-known voice holler, ‘Hey Halfpint, you outdated rat-ass!!!’ In that instantaneous, I knew I used to be residence.”
Gilbert ended her farewell with a Shakespeare quote and a nod to Lilley’s nickname for her. “Oh Jack…candy prince….might flights of angels sing thee to thy relaxation. Love at all times, Your Halfpint.”
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