One of the nicest stars in Hollywood is Jon Provost, the actor who is famously remembered for playing the role of Timmy Martin on TV’s beloved series Lassie, which is celebrating its 70th ...

Jon Provost (75) Timmy Martin Provost played Timmy, Lassie’s most popular best friend. Born on March 12, 1950, he started acting when he was only two years old.

Jon, who is 73, wrote the memoir, Timmy's in the Well: the Jon Provost Story. Jon Shepodd as Paul Martin (1957 to 1958) in the Lassie cast Jon Shepodd and the cast of Lassie, 1957. ©CBS/IMDb ...

Jon Provost, pictured here as “Timmy” poses with his character’s dog, Lassie. From 1957 to 1964, for a half hour each week, Timmy and Lassie shared their adventures on the Martin farm with ...

Timmy's plan to help his new friend Henry, who is afraid of dogs, backfires when Henry mistakes Lassie's extra attention as love for him and believes she wants to stay with him.

The chief newcomer, Jon Provost, 7, was eased into the filmed series 13 weeks before as Lassie’s new chum Timmy; this week’s episode introduced Timmy’s foster parents (Cloris Leachman and ...

Joey D. Vieira, who portrayed the farm boy Sylvester “Porky” Brockway on the first four seasons of the long-running CBS series Lassie, has died. He was 80.

After years of trying to abandon his Lassie identity, the events were like coming home. "Nowadays, I do a lot of nostalgia shows and autograph shows around the country," he says.

Every week, Timmy would stumble into a hole or face a perilous situation and Lassie would get him out of it. Mom would be in the kitchen. Dad would be doing who-knows-what in the barn.

Lassie discovers a small, waiflike boy hiding in the barn, but the child won't talk. The Millers soon find out he's Timmy, an orphan living in Olive Branch with his elderly relatives, Uncle Jed ...