Steve Shaw (February 19, 1965 – December 5, 1990) was an American actor best known for playing Eric Fairgate in the

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''.

Life and career

One of Shaw's earliest acting appearances was on '' 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 Little House on the Prairie 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

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before he dies. He also appeared in two episodes of ''

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'' in 1978 as George Simmons. Also in 1978, he played Alexander Armsworth in the Weekly

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. Shaw then appeared regularly in ''Knots Landing'' from 1979 to 1987, and thereafter made occasional return appearances until 1990.

Death

Shaw died on December 5, 1990, in a head-on traffic collision with a truck in

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. He was survived by his mother and grandparents; his father had died six months previously of a

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Filmography

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* * 1965 births American male television actors American male child actors Road incident deaths in California 1990 deaths 20th-century American male actors Burials at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery Male actors from St. Louis {{US-screen-actor-1960s-stub