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 in The Waltons.^[3][4]

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Joe Conley
Conley at The Waltons 40th Anniversary in 2012
Born	(1928-03-03)March 3, 1928 Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Died	July 7, 2013(2013-07-07) (aged 85) Newbury Park, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950–2002
Spouse	Jacqueline Stakes (about 1962) Louise Ann Teechen (1969 – 2013; his death)[1][2]
Children	Kevin (b. 1960) Julie (b. 1961)

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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.^[5]

By the early 1970s, his career as an actor was in limbo. After twenty years of small parts, mainly in television shows, he performed with Pat Harrington in an AT&T educational film called How to Lose Your Best Customer Without Even Trying.^[6] Before long, he was cast as storekeeper Ike Godsey in The Waltons. Conley was paired with Ronnie Claire Edwards, who portrayed his wife Corabeth Walton Godsey; their characters married on the show in 1975. In 2009, Conley published his autobiography, Ike Godsey of Walton's Mountain.^[7]

In real life, Conley was married to and later divorced from Jacqueline Stakes, with whom he had two children. He married Louise Teecher in 1969, and had two children with her.