Steve Shaw

Steve Shaw (June 3, 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri – December 5, 1990) was an American actor best known for playing Eric Fairgate in the television drama Knots Landing. One of his earliest acting appearances was Little House On The Prairie Season 3 Episode 22, Gold Country, as Sam Delano, the son of an Italian couple mining for gold. He appeared again in Season 5 episode of Little House on the Prairie entitled The Odyssey in which he played a character named Dylan Whittaker who has been diagnosed with terminal leukemia and wishes to see the Pacific Ocean before he dies. He also appeared in two episodes of The Waltons as George Simmons. Shaw appeared regularly in Knots Landing from 1979 to 1987, and thereafter made occasional return appearances before his death in a traffic accident on December 5, 1990, in Los Angeles.

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