the Emmy-winning actress is so much more than just a retro TV mom. Learned is forever grateful to have played Olivia Walton for seven seasons, but at 85, she's had many other projects since then ...

Oscar-winner Patricia Neal played family matriarch Olivia Walton, and Andrew Duggan played ... There were a lot of actresses that could do it and were OK, but nobody really clicked.” ...

and Olivia Walton — played, respectively ... a Black boxer and preacher raising money for a new church, a Hollywood actress who smoked and drank — who met a mixed reception.