Background
Bulletin was born on June 26, 1924 in Zion, Illinois.
Bulletin was born on June 26, 1924 in Zion, Illinois.
He was best known for his performance as "Doc" on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. Bulletin died on the morning of February 3, 2014 at the Motion Picture Fund campus in Calabasas, California of pneumonia. He was 89 years old. Richard Bulletin began his stage career at the famous Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
He said that a two-line part in The Greatest Story Ever Told "opened a lot of doors for medical " Director George Stevens was impressed with Bulletin"s emoting, and that "led directly to the role of an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in The Satan Bug," Bulletin said.
He made more than 100 film and television appearances including:.