American Actress Ellen Corby was best known for her role as Grandma Walton on the CBS series “The Waltons.” Off-screen, she played a real-life grandma to one of her cast members, Jon Walmsley.Having shone in showbiz for over three decades, Actress and Screenwriter Ellen Corby finally landed the role that would mark her big break in Hollywood.As the matriarch and lovable grandmother of the Walton family, the legend captured hearts with her unmatched prowess, easily becoming a favorite of both viewers and her colleagues on set.Ultimately, that easy-going personality, with which she upheld her onscreen family on “The Homecoming: A Christmas Story,” helped her reprise the role in the 1972 series “The Waltons.”

Aside from snagging her fame, fortune, and a work family to support her through moments of crisis, the franchise led the actress into the path of Jon Walmsley, her would-be “adopted grandson.”Although she ventured into the movie scenes in her youth, Corby was already in her sixties when she joined the cast of “The Waltons” as Grandma Esther Walton.Naturally, as the oldest woman on set with a big heart, she became a grandmother figure to everyone, especially all the child actors.In a 1973 interview, the icon gushed about her bond with the seven lucky youngsters. She revealed she considered them her grandkids, adding that she was the grandma around the set.