Jack Lilley Dies: ‘Little House On The Prairie’ & ‘Blazing Saddles’ Actor & Stuntman Who Had 70-Year Screen Career Was 91
deadline.comJack Lilley, whose showbiz career spanned more than seven decades as an actor, stuntman, animal coordinator and other roles and included Little House on the Prairie, Blazing Saddles, John Ford films and TV Westerns, has died.
He was 91. His family posted the news on Instagram but did not provide a date or cause of death. “The man who started it all.
Figuratively and literally,” the social post reads in part. “The card shark, the horse trader, the wrangler, the man with a story for everything, he always knew someone who could help if he couldn’t, known to many as friend, storyteller, joker, and a heck of a horseman.” Little House star Melissa Gilbert also paid tribute to Lilley on IG, calling him “one of my favorite people on the planet” and adding, “I am so lucky that he was my friend.” See her full post below.
Born on August 15, 1931, in Santa Clarita, just north of Los Angeles, Lilley started his career in the late 1940s, following his horse-wrangler father into the entertainment industry.
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