- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDorlee Deane McGregor
- Best known for her performance as the nasty, gossiping, greedy and arrogant Mrs. Harriet Oleson on the TV series Little House on the Prairie (1974). Katherine (Scottie) MacGregor could not appear in the final feature length episode "The Last Farewell" because she was on a pilgrimage in India.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 1970 Ms. Mac Gregor worked as a stage actress on Broadway, off Broadway and in regional theatre in and around New York City.
- IMDb mini biography by: Edward J. May & Katherine MacGregor
- SpousesEdward G. Kaye-Martin(August 3, 1969 - October 1970) (divorced)Bert Remsen(1949 - 1950) (divorced)
- ParentsBeatrice E. WillardRalph S. McGregor
- Her catchphrases "Yoo-hoo" and "Nels" from Little House on the Prairie
- Before moving to Los Angeles, California (1970), Ms. MacGregor worked as a stage actress on Broadway, off Broadway and in regional theatre in and around New York City.
- Resided at the Motion Picture & Television Fund residences in Woodland Hills, California. After her retirement, she occasionally wrote, directed and produced plays for the Wee Hollywood Vedanta Players, a children's theater group.
- Broadway and stage actress.
- Received her Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (1947).
- Best known by the public for her role as the gossiping, greedy, nasty and arrogant Mrs. Harriet Oleson on Little House on the Prairie (1974).
- I look for the humor of Mrs. Oleson. She was originally painted as just black-and-white mean. Anyone that mean has to be a fool. So I began mixing farce into it. I think the audience counts on seeing Mrs. Oleson fall on her fanny and get her comeuppance.
- I see myself as a good actress with good instincts. I studied with the best teachers in the country, Sanford Meisler and Stella Adler. She taught me to go for the universal. When Mrs. Oleson falls on her rear, that's a universal.
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