Died: July 7, 2013 (at age 85)
Birthplace: Buffalo, New York
Joe Conley (March 3, 1928 - July 7, 2013) was an American actor who played many small roles on television and is most remembered for his role as the storekeeper Ike Godsey on The Waltons.
Joe Conley was born in Buffalo, New York. He started acting after returning from military service in Korea, and was running three real-estate agencies in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles by the early 1970s after beginning this second career in 1961. While acting, he continued to work in real estate and, as a result, became wealthy.
By the early 1970s, his career as an actor was in limbo. After twenty years of small parts in mainly television shows, he had only been in two bit parts in as many years before he was cast as storekeeper Ike Godsey in The Waltons. Conley was paired with Ronnie Claire Edwards, who portrayed his bossy wife Corabeth Walton Godsey; their characters married in the show during 1975. In 2009, Conley published his autobiography, Ike Godsey of Walton's Mountain.
He was married and divorced to Jacqueline Stakes, with whom he had two children. He married Louise Teecher in 1969 and had two children with her.
Conley died on July 7, 2013, at a care facility in Newbury Park, California of complications from dementia. He was 85 and is survived by his wife, three daughters and son.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1955 | Big Town | Honest Cop | |
1955 | The People's Choice | Ernie | Socks new Secretary |
1956 | The Scarlet Hour | Car Salesman | uncredited |
1956 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Raino Tante | The Ghost of Jean Battoo |
1957 | The Silent Service | The Seahorse Story | |
1957 | House of Numbers | ||
1957 | Crime of Passion | Deliveryman | |
1957 | The Danny Thomas Show, also known as Make Room For Daddy |
Earl the Elevator Operator | Honesty is the Best Policy |
1957 | Casey Jones | Conductor Addrel | The Old Timer |
1957 & 1959 |
Dragnet | The Big Yak & The Big Malcolm |
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1957 | Lassie | Deliveryman | Lassie's Day |
1958 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Insurance Agent | Disappearing Trick |
1958 | A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed | Benjy | uncredited |
1958 | Juvenile Jungle | Duke | |
1958 | Boots and Saddles | Private Spanner | The Superstition |
1958 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | ||
1958 | Flight | Chopper Four | |
1959 | The D.A.'s Man | Smiley | The Pushter's |
1959 | M Squad | Jack Moreno | Mama's Boy |
1959 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Henry Jackson | The Hostage |
1960 | The Best of the Post | Elevator boy | The Little Terror |
1960 | Richard Diamond, Private Detective | The Mouse | |
1960 | Stagecoach West | Henry | The Saga of Jeremy Boone |
1961 | All Hands on Deck | sailor | uncredited |
1961 | Blueprint for Robbery | Jock Mcgee | |
1962 | Patty | Johnny | |
1962 | The Dick Powell Theater | Tom | Special Assignment |
1962 | Dennis the Menace | Nelson | Calling all Bird Lovers |
1963 & 1965 |
Mister Ed | various characters | 6 episodes |
1964 | Kraft Suspense Theater | Dom | Charlie, he couldn't kill a fly |
1964 | Gunsmoke | Carl | Help me Kitty |
1966 | Green Acres | policeman | The Deputy |
1967 | Felony Squad | Cabbie | Time of Trial |
1967 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Sergeant | The Army Game |
1969 | 80 steps to Jonah | Jenkins | |
1969 | Bracken's World | Alvin Stone | Closed Set and Fade In |
1970 | The Brady Bunch | Delivery man | The Hero |
1972 -1981 |
The Waltons | Ike Godsey | 172 episodes |
1972 | The Longest Night | salesman | |
1982 | A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain | Ike Godsey | Thanksgiving TV movie |
1982 | Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain | Ike Godsey | TV movie |
1982 | A Wedding on Walton's Mountain | Ike Godsey | TV movie |
1983 | Knight Rider | Manager | Short Notice |
1985 | Impure Thoughts | Father Minnelli | |
1993 | A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion | Ike Godsey | TV movie |
1995 | A Walton Wedding | Ike Godsey | TV movie |
1996 | Night Stand with Dick Dietrick | Claude | Dick Goes Home |
1999 | Whatever it Takes | Frank | |
2000 | Cast Away | Joe Wally | |
2001 | Blind Obsession |