Stanley Grover
{{Short description|American actor and singer}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Stanley Grover
|image = Publicity_Photo_of_Stanley_Grover.jpg
|caption = Publicity Photo of Stanley Grover
|birth_name = Stanley Grover Neinstendt
|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|03|28}}
|birth_place = Woodstock, Illinois, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1997|08|24|1926|03|28}}
|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|occupation = Actor
|spouse = Linda Grover{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1997/scene/people-news/stanley-grover-111662241/|title=Stanley Grover|work=Variety|author=Variety Staff|date=October 6, 1997|access-date=October 10, 2021}}
|years_active = 1951–1996
|alma mater = University of Missouri
}}
Stanley Grover Neinstendt (March 20, 1926 – August 24, 1997) was an American film, television, and theatre actor.
Life and career
Born in Woodstock, Illinois, Grover attended the University of Missouri, where earned his music degree. He made his theatre debut in 1951, appearing in the Broadway play, Seventeen,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/22/arts/stanley-grover-71-actor-on-broadway.html|title=Stanley Grover, 71, Actor on Broadway|work=The New York Times|date=September 22, 1997|access-date=October 10, 2021}} playing the "Singer with the Orchestra".{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/stanley-grover-94687|title=Stanley Grover|work=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=October 10, 2021}} His last theatre credit was in the Broadway play Don't Call Back in 1975.
Later in his career, Grover began appearing in films and on television. His credits include: Ghostbusters, Barnaby Jones, Network, Being There, The Falcon and the Snowman, Sisters, Dark Shadows, Old Gringo, Hardcastle and McCormick, North Dallas Forty, Fandango, Hill Street Blues, Murder, She Wrote, The Patty Duke Show and The Onion Field.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-30-mn-27252-story.html|title=Stanley Grover; Veteran Singer and Actor|first=Myrna|last=Oliver|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 30, 1997|access-date=October 10, 2021}} He also played the recurring role of a somber judge in the legal drama TV series L.A. Law.
Grover died in August 1997 of leukemia at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 71.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/bway-baritone-stanley-grover-dies-age-71-com-71367|title=B'way Baritone Stanley Grover Dies, Age 71|first=David|last=Lefkowitz|work=Playbill|date=September 2, 1997|access-date=October 10, 2021}} His body was cremated.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA302|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|pages=301–302|first=Scott|last=Wilson|publisher=McFarland|date=August 22, 2016|isbn=9780786479924|via=Google Books}}
References
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External links
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- {{TCMDb name|77384%7C0}}
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- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/stanley-grover/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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Category:People from Woodstock, Illinois
Category:Male actors from Illinois
Category:Deaths from leukemia in California
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:20th-century American male singers
Category:20th-century American singers