Kevin Hagen - wikipedia Kevin Hagen For the baseball pitcher, see Kevin Hagen ( baseball ). This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( April 2015 ) Kevin Hagen ( 1928 - 04 - 03 ) April 3, 1928 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 9, 2005 ( 2005 - 07 - 09 ) ( aged 77 ) Grants Pass Josephine County Oregon, U.S. Cause of death Esophageal cancer Occupation Film and television actor Years active 1959 -- 2004 Spouse ( s ) Adaline Sohns Heidt ( 1960 -- ? ) ( divorced ) Susanne Cramer ( 1967 -- 1969, her death ) Dorali Dossantos ( 1969 -- ) ( divorced ) 1 child Jan Hagen ( 1993 -- 2005, his death ) Children Kristopher Hagen ( special education teacher and coach ) Kevin Hagen ( April 3, 1928 -- July 9, 2005 ) was an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Hiram Baker on NBC 's Little House on the Prairie. Contents 1 Background 2 Acting roles 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External links Background Hagen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to professional ballroom dancers, Haakon Olaf Hagen and the former Marvel Lucile Wadsworth. When Haakon Hagen deserted his family, young Hagen was reared by his mother, grandmother, and aunts. As a 15 - year - old, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where one of his aunts had taken a teaching job. He attended Portland 's Jefferson High School. His family returned to Chicago, and he attended Oregon State University in Corvallis and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, from which he received a degree in International Relations. He spent a year in law school at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was subsequently employed by the U.S. State Department in West Germany, followed by a two - year stint in the United States Navy. For a time he taught ballroom dancing, the specialty of his parents, for the Arthur Murray Company. Then, at the age of twenty - seven, he tried acting. He was spotted in a production of Eugene O'Neill 's Desire Under the Elms and given a guest - starring role on the classic 1950s police series Dragnet, starring Jack Webb. Acting roles Kevin Hagen in `` Little House on the Prairie '' Hagen began to work steadily in television and film. His first regular role on a series was in 1958 in the CBS cult western Yancy Derringer, starring Jock Mahoney in the title role. Hagen played John Colton, the city administrator of New Orleans, c. 1868. At the beginning of each episode, Colton asks Derringer to halt some threat facing the city ; at the end of each segment, he arrests Derringer for breaking the law to solve the crisis. On April 29, 1962, Hagen was cast as the lead guest star in the episode `` Cort '' of the ABC - WB western series, Lawman, with John Russell and Peter Brown. In the story line, Cort Evers, who is much younger than he appears, seeks revenge against his brother Mitch ( Harry Carey, Jr. ), whom he mistakenly blames for betraying six Union Army prisoners from their hometown during the American Civil War. Mitch is compelled to confront Cort in a shootout during which he explains that it had been Cort himself, under the influence of a fever, who betrayed the prisoners. Cort faints to the ground as he remembers the startling truth of the betrayal. From 1969 to 1970, Hagen appeared as Inspector Dobbs Kobick in nine episodes of Land of the Giants. Hagen guest - starred seven times on Gunsmoke, six times on The Big Valley, five times each on Bonanza, Laramie, and Have Gun - Will Travel, four appearances on Mannix and The Time Tunnel, and three appearances on Perry Mason, two of them in 1965 : as murderer Jacob Leonard in `` The Case of the Gambling Lady, '' and Samuel Carleton in `` The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein. '' Other appearances included Bat Masterson, Riverboat, Wagon Train, Outlaws, Straightaway, GE True, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Twilight Zone, in the episodes `` Elegy '', and `` You Drive '', Daniel Boone, Blue Light, Mission : Impossible, Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, M * A * S * H, The Rifleman, Lancer, The Virginian, The Guns of Will Sonnett, The Cowboys, Lost in Space ( as the alien in the episode `` His Majesty Smith '' ), The Silent Force, Sara, Quincy, M.E., Simon and Simon, and Knots Landing. Hagen considered his big break to be the role of a Confederate renegade who kills James Stewart 's son and daughter - in - law in the 1965 film Shenandoah. His most famous role was one of his most pleasant, as kindly Doc Baker on Michael Landon 's Little House on the Prairie. He played the part of Doc Baker from 1974 to 1983, as well as in a one - man show, A Playful Dose of Prairie Wisdom. Personal life In 1992, he moved to Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon, and continued his acting career. In 2004, he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Hagen was married to actress Susanne Cramer until her death in 1969. Hagen died on July 9, 2005, at his home in Grants Pass. At the time of his death, Hagen left a widow, Jan, his fourth wife, whom he met in 1993, and a son, Kristopher. Biography portal Illinois portal California portal Oregon portal Film portal Television portal United States Navy portal References Jump up ^ Hayward, Anthony ( July 28, 2005 ). `` Kevin Hagen : Kindly Doc Baker in ' Little House on the Prairie ' ''. The Independent. London, UK. Retrieved 2015 - 04 - 12. ^ Jump up to : `` Doc Baker on ' Little House ' dies at 77 ''. USA Today. Associated Press. July 11, 2005. Retrieved 2015 - 04 - 12. Jump up ^ `` '' Cort '' ( April 29, 1962 ) ``. Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved June 13, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Little House Star Kevin Hagen Dies at 77 ''. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. July 12, 2005. Retrieved 2015 - 04 - 12. Jump up ^ Times Staff and Wire Reports ( July 13, 2005 ). `` Kevin Hagen, 77 ; Doc Baker in ' Little House on the Prairie ' ''. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015 - 04 - 12. External links Kevin Hagen at Find a Grave Kevin Hagen on IMDb Series - 80 - Biography TV Land - Little House on the Prairie VIAF : 34414709 LCCN : nr2005019309 BNF : cb144859400 ( data ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Hagen&oldid=798525008 '' Categories : American male film actors American male television actors Male actors from Chicago Male actors from Portland, Oregon People from Josephine County, Oregon Male actors from Los Angeles 1928 births 2005 deaths Deaths from esophageal cancer Oregon State University alumni University of California, Los Angeles School of Law alumni USC School of International Relations alumni Deaths from cancer in Oregon United States Navy sailors 20th - century American male actors Hidden categories : Articles lacking in - text citations from April 2015 All articles lacking in - text citations Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards Find a Grave template with ID same as Wikidata Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی Français Italiano Nederlands 日本 語 Polski Suomi Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 2 September 2017, at 11 : 02. 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Question: who played the doctor on little house on the prairie
Answer: Kevin Hagen