The Office star Melora Hardin fondly recalled her time with the late Michael Landon on the set of Little House on the Prairie. Landon, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 1991 at the age of 54, not only starred in the iconic 1974-1983 series but also worked as a writer and director.
![[Landon, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 1991 at the age of 54, not only starred in the iconic 1974-1983 series but also worked as a writer and director; (Pictured: (back row l-r) Melisssa Sue Anderson as Mary Ingalls Kendall, Michael Landon as Charles Philip Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert as Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder, Linwood Boomer as Adam Kendall (front row l-r) Matthew Laborteaux as Albert Quinn Ingalls, Karen Grassle as Caroline Quiner Holbrook Ingalls, Lindsay or Sydney Greenbush as Carrie Ingalls)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/00/94101709-14285657-image-a-10_1736902784181.jpg)
Hardin landed a role in season 5 as Belinda, a classmate of Albert Ingalls (Matthew Labyorteaux), the son of Landon’s character, Charles Ingalls. ‘He was just so warm,’ Hardin said on the Still Here Hollywood with Steve Kmetko podcast. ‘He was so sweet. He made all the kids and adults, everybody, feel like he had really chosen you. And he just let you do your thing.'.
![[‘He was just so warm,’ Hardin said on the Still Here Hollywood with Steve Kmetko podcast. ‘He was so sweet. He made all the kids and adults, everybody, feel like he had really chosen you. And he just let you do your thing;' (Landon in 1976)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/00/94101705-14285657-image-a-11_1736902789138.jpg)
Hardin returned for the 1983 TV movie Little House: Look Back to Yesterday as Michele. ‘And when he ever gave you direction, you never felt admonished by him. He just was lovely,’ she continued, adding that Landon knew ‘how to talk to kids.’. The Office star Melora Hardin fondly recalled her time with the late Michael Landon on the set of Little House on the Prairie; (seen in 2023).
![[Hardin returned for the 1983 TV movie Little House: Look Back to Yesterday as Michele; (seen in 1980)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/00/94103783-14285657-image-a-12_1736902794025.jpg)
Landon, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 1991 at the age of 54, not only starred in the iconic 1974-1983 series but also worked as a writer and director; (Pictured: (back row l-r) Melisssa Sue Anderson as Mary Ingalls Kendall, Michael Landon as Charles Philip Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert as Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder, Linwood Boomer as Adam Kendall (front row l-r) Matthew Laborteaux as Albert Quinn Ingalls, Karen Grassle as Caroline Quiner Holbrook Ingalls, Lindsay or Sydney Greenbush as Carrie Ingalls).
![[‘And when he ever gave you direction, you never felt admonished by him. He just was lovely,’ she continued, adding that Landon knew ‘how to talk to kids']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/01/94101695-14285657-image-a-13_1736902811865.jpg)
