LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE -- "Make a Joyful Noise" Episode 15 -- Aired 1/26/81 -- Pictured: (l-r) Ketty Lester as Hester-Sue Terhune, Moses Gunn as Joe Kagan -- Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
TV and Film
"Originally offered the lead role in Julia, starring Diahann Carroll, Lester appeared in the films Just for Fun, Up Tight, Uptown Saturday Night, The Terminal Man, Street Knight, House Party 3, and Blacula, and the TV movies Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style and Percy and Thunder. She also guest-starred on TV series like Sanford and Son, Laugh-In, Quantum Leap, Hill Street Blues, Love American Style, The FBI, Harry 0 (the 1975 episode with Maureen McCormick), That Girl, Marcus Welby, and Lou Grant. She became a regular on Little House on the Prairie (as Hester Sue Terhune) and the soap operas Days of Our Lives (as Helen Grant) and Rituals. The singer won an Off-Broadway Theater Award for her performance in a revival of A Cabin in the Sky. Lester also had a recurring role as Vivica A. Fox's grandmother on the 1998 sitcom Getting Personal."
~ Ed Hogan, All Music Guide
Check out her IMDb page HERE!!
Ketty Lester's Roles in Television:
(in chronological order)
(more can be found on IMDb)
1957- "You Bet Your Life"The Vic Damone Show (TV Series)
1962-1968- American Bandstand (TV Series)
- Episode #12.13 (1968) ... Herself
- Episode #9.43 (1966) ... Herself
- "The Debut of The New AMERICAN BANDSTAND 1966" (1965) ... Herself
- Episode #5.256 (1962) ... Herself
- Episode #5.165 (1962) ... Herself
1962-1965- Thank Your Lucky Stars (TV Series)
- Episode #9.11 (1965) ... Herself
- Episode #3.39 (1963) ... Herself
- Episode #3.5 (1962) ... Herself
1964 - That Regis Philbin Show (TV Series)
- Episode #1.48 (1964) ... Herself
- Episode #1.6 (1964) ... Herself
- Episode #1.2 (1964) ... Herself
1964 - The Steve Allen Playhouse (TV Series)
- Episode dated 8 October 1964 (1964) ... Herself
1965-1966 - Where the Action Is (TV Series)
- Episode #2.217 (1966) ... Herself
- Episode #2.138 (1966) ... Herself
- Donovan & Miss Ketty Lester (1965) ... Herself
- Episode #2.1 (1965) ... Herself
1965 - Juke Box Jury (TV Series)
- Episode #1.330 (1965) ... Herself - Panellist
1965 - Ready, Steady, Go! (TV Series)
- Episode #3.14 (1965) ... Herself
1965 - The Eamonn Andrews Show (TV Series)
- Episode #2.9 (1965) ... Herself
1965 - Hollywood a Go Go (TV Series)
- Episode #1.46 (1965) ... Herself - Singer
- Episode #1.37 (1965) ... Herself - Singer
1965 - Hollywood Discotheque (TV Series)
- Episode #1.6 (1965) ... Herself
- Premiere (1965) ... Herself
1964-1965 - Shindig! (TV Series)
- Episode #2.1 (1965) ... Herself - Singer
- Episode #1.8 (1964) ... Herself - Singer
1965 - Shivaree (TV Series)
- Episode #1.32 (1965) ... Herself
1966 - The Lloyd Thaxton Show (TV Series)
- Episode #4.215 (1966) ... Herself
1967- George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (TV Series)
- Carl Reiner (1968) ... Herself
1968 - The Woody Woodbury Show (TV Series)
- Episode dated 12 March 1968 (1968) ... Herself
- Episode dated 16 January 1968 (1968) ... Herself
1968 - Pat Boone in Hollywood (TV Series)
- Episode #1.85 (1968) ... Herself
1969 - Win with the Stars (TV Series)
- Ketty Lester/George Jessel (1969) ... Herself - Celebrity Contestant
- Ketty Lester/Richard Long (1969) ... Herself - Celebrity Contestant
1969 - The Bill Cosby Show (TV Series)
- A Girl Named Punkin (1969) ... Cathy
1970 - Here Come the Brides (TV Series)
- A Bride for Obie Brown (1970) ... Johnnie Mae
1970-1973 - Love, American Style (TV Series)
- Love and the Games People Play/Love and High Spirits/Love and the Memento
Love and the Single Husband/Love and the Stutter (1973)
- Love and the Champ/Love and the Pen Pals (1970) ... Martha
- The Long Honeymoon (1971) ... Mrs. Ellis
- Mr. Bomberg (1971) ... Mrs. Ellis
1972-1973 - New Temperatures Rising Show (TV Series)
- Panic in the Sheets (1973) ... Nurse Ferguson
- Witchcraft, Washington Style (1972) ... Nurse Ferguson
- Operation Fastball (1972) ... Nurse Ferguson
1973 - Sanford and Son (TV Series)
- The Infernal Triangle (1973) ... Judy Edwards
1973-1975- Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series)
- Public Secrets (1975) ... Betty Fisher
- The Fatal Challenge (1974) ... Thelma Walters
- A Joyful Song (1973) ... Nurse Walsh
1976 - Days of Our Lives (TV Series)
- Episode #1.2708 (1976) ... Helen Grant
1977-1983 - Little House on the Prairie (TV Series)
- A Child with No Name (1983) ... Hester-Sue Terhune
- Home Again: Part 2 (1983) ... Hester-Sue Terhune (credit only)
- Home Again: Part 1 (1983) ... Hester-Sue Terhune
- Love (1982) ... Hester-Sue Terhune
- The Empire Builders (1982) ... Hester-Sue Terhune
1980-1981 - Palmerstown, U.S.A. (TV Series)
- Future City (1981) ... Sister Hattie
- The Black Travelers: II (1980) ... Sister Hattie
1982 - Happy Days (TV Series)
- Southern Crossing (1982) ... Annie
1984 - This Is the Life (TV Series)
- Reprise for the Lord (1984)
- Episode #1.6 (1984) ... Maddie Washington #1
- Episode #1.5 (1984) ... Maddie Washington #1
- Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Maddie Washington #1
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Maddie Washington #1
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Maddie Washington #1
- Red Rocket's Glare (1985) ... Sarah Bronson (voice)
- The Pyramid of Darkness: Part 5 - Knotting Cobra's Coils (1985) ... Satin (voice)
- The Pyramid of Darkness: Part 4 - Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls (1985) ... Satin (voice)
- The Pyramid of Darkness: Part 3 - Three Cubes to Darkness (1985) ... Satin (voice)
1986 - Morningstar/Eveningstar (TV Series)
- Taking a Chance on Love (1986) ... Nora Blake
- Good Expectations (1986) ... Nora Blake
- Episode #1.5 (1986) ... Nora Blake
- Episode #1.4 (1986) ... Nora Blake
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Nora Blake
1987 - Trying Times (TV Series)
- Moving Day (1987) ... Mildred
- San Francisco: Part 3 (1987) ... Grace
- San Francisco: Part 2 (1987) ... Grace
1987 - Easy Street (TV Series)
- Spring Fever (1987) ... Kaytelle
1987 - What's Happening Now! (TV Series)
- Sorority Sisters (1987) ... Mrs. Willoughby
1998 - Getting Personal (TV Series)
- Guess Who Else Is Coming to Dinner? (1998) ... Nana
Ketty Lester's Roles in Movies :
(in chronological order)
1974 - Uptown Saturday Night
Irma Franklin
1975 - The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Unemployment Clerk
1991 - Pretty Hattie's Baby
1993 -Street Knight
Lucinda
1994 - House Party 3
Aunt Lucy
You can see even more on her IMDb page HERE!!
Ketty Lester with Kathy Kirby - on Southern TV's
'Day by Day ' 1964.
BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM: Ketty Lester performs on Thank Your Lucky Stars TV show at Aston Studios in 1965 in Birmingham United Kingdom. Image is part of David Redfern Premium Collection. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE -- "Make a Joyful Noise" Episode 15 -- Aired 1/26/81 -- Pictured: (l-r) Ketty Lester as Hester-Sue Terhune, Moses Gunn as Joe Kagan -- Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
The Bill Cosby Show 1969
