Merlin Olsen's death last week means his widow can "step into his shoes" for the lawsuit he filed charging NBC and other media companies exposed him to asbestos and caused his fatal cancer, a Los ...

More than 400 family members and friends of late NFL great Merlin Olsen packed into All Saints Church in Pasadena on Tuesday to celebrate the life of a man noted for what he meant to those closest to ...

Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" who followed up football with a successful television career in "Little House on the Prairie," ...

Merlin Olsen, a bearded, gentle-giant Pro Football Hall of Famer who went on to a successful TV career as an actor, announcer, host and pitchman, died Thursday of cancer near Los Angeles. He was 69.

He was a fearsome football player for the Los Angeles Rams and a gentle giant on the television screen. And those were only the biggest claims to fame for Merlin Olsen, who died Thursday at age 69 at ...

Merlin Olsen, Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle and part of the "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line during the 1960s and 1970s, passed away yesterday at the age of 69 his brother Orrin announced. Olsen ...

Merlin Olsen, the legendary Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle who died early this morning at the age of 69, is being remembered in the football world as a great player on the field and a good man off ...

Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman with the Los Angeles Rams who was a charter member of the team’s famed Fearsome Foursome, then made a remarkably smooth transition into careers in ...

Although Merlin Olsen won football fame in the 1960s as a member of the Los Angeles Rams' Fearsome Foursome, he was one of television's family-fare nice guys during the late '70s and '80s. That goes ...