Steve Shaw (February 19, 1965 â€" December 5, 1990) was an American
actor best known for playing Eric Fairgate in the television drama
series Knots Landing.One of Shaw's 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 made another
appearance on the same series in a Season 5 episode 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 until
1990.Shaw died on December 5, 1990 in a head-on traffic collision with
a truck in Los Angeles. He was survived by his mother and
grandparents; his father had died six months previously of a heart
attack.
actor best known for playing Eric Fairgate in the television drama
series Knots Landing.One of Shaw's 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 made another
appearance on the same series in a Season 5 episode 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 until
1990.Shaw died on December 5, 1990 in a head-on traffic collision with
a truck in Los Angeles. He was survived by his mother and
grandparents; his father had died six months previously of a heart
attack.
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