Stanley Grover

Stanley Grover

Acting
1926-03-28
Woodstock, Illinois, USA

Known For & Full Filmography37 Titles

#1Murder, She Wrote

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Businessman

7.5 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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#2Hunter

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as John Haines

7.1 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.

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#3Falcon Crest

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Minister

5.6 / 10
SoapDramaFamily

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

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#4American Playhouse

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Martin Cage

6.6 / 10
DramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

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#5The Waltons

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Bill Snyder

7.2 / 10
Drama

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

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#6Hill Street Blues

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Judge Harold Pyle

7.6 / 10
DramaCrime

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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#7Knots Landing

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Lieutenant Walter Spatz

7.0 / 10
DramaSoap

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

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#8L.A. Law

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Judge Richard Lobel

7.1 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

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#9Hart to Hart

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Fire Captain

6.8 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeMystery

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

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#10Starsky & Hutch

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Frank Weldon

7.3 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaCrime

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.

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#11Barnaby Jones

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Carl Whittaker

7.0 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".

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#12Lou Grant

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as DTW Official

7.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

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#13Lou Grant

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Jarret Longworth

7.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

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#14Lou Grant

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Officer Stuart

7.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

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#15China Beach

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as General Nelson

7.5 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.

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#16Ghostbusters

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Reporter

7.5 / 10
ComedyFantasy

After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.

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#17Baywatch Nights

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Crew Cut

6.2 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Baywatch Nights is an American police and science fiction drama series that aired in syndication from 1995 to 1997. Created by Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff, and Gregory J. Bonann, the series is a spin-off from the popular television series, Baywatch.

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#18Hardcastle and McCormick

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaCrime

Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

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#19The Greatest American Hero

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Cal Freeman

7.2 / 10
Action & AdventureComedyCrime

The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.

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#20CHiPs

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Bennett

6.8 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.

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#21Executive Decision

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as General Price

6.4 / 10
ActionAdventureDrama

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.

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#22Network

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Jack Snowden

7.8 / 10
Drama

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

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#23Werewolf

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes as Rudi Armandi

8.6 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Eric Cord, a college student transformed into a werewolf undergoes a quest to rid himself of his curse by killing the apparent originator of his 'bloodline'.

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#24Being There

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Baldwin

7.6 / 10
ComedyDrama

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

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#25The French Atlantic Affair

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Bradley

7.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.

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#26The Onion Field

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Greg's Lawyer #2

6.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.

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#27The Falcon and the Snowman

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as NSA Inspector

6.4 / 10
ThrillerDramaCrime

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

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#28Fandango

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Phil's Dad

6.7 / 10
ComedyDrama

In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

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#29North Dallas Forty

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as March

6.7 / 10
ComedyDrama

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

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#30Old Gringo

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Gen. Saunders

5.7 / 10
ActionDramaRomance

A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.

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#31Desperate

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Noah's Father

9.0 / 10
ThrillerTV Movie

In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.

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#32Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
WarHistoryTV Movie

The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.

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#33Marriage Is Alive and Well

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Mr. Sandusky

4.7 / 10
ComedyDramaTV Movie

A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that holy matrimony brings. Starring as the photographer, football great Joe Namath narrates the unconventional tales of three couples: Judd Hirsch and Melinda Dillon as a twosome who have married and divorced multiple times and who are on the verge of repeating their mistake; an anxious newlywed who prefers the "freedom" that living together allows; and Jack Albertson as an aging comedian who wants to marry his much younger secretary despite the disapproval of his son.

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#34Warm Summer Rain

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Father

4.6 / 10
DramaRomance

Kate, a depressed thirty-something who unsuccessfully attempts suicide by slitting her wrists. Reflecting briefly upon her circumstance in the hospital, she realizes that nothing has been solved, whereupon she vacates the premises, wearing nothing but a hospital gown, a black coat, and flimsy sandals. Shortly thereafter, at a bus station, she requests from the attendant a bus ticket to wherever, with consideration to the limited funds she has to spare. The attendant insists on a destination, or even a direction - Kate spins about, points, and says, "that way". The story then evolves to include Barry Tubb, her love interest, who rekindles her will to live.

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#35The Betty Ford Story

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as General Alexander Haig

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.

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#36The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
FamilyMysteryTV Movie

Sherlock Holmes is merely a framing device for the real story: The Treasure of Alpheus T. Winterborn. A small-town boy accidentally uncovers a list of mystifying clues to a hidden treasure left by the late Alpheus T. Winterborn, the town's richest citizen.

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#37Frogopolis

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Himself

8.8 / 10

Three generations of immigrants across three hundred years witness the rise and fall of Frogopolis – a humble haven turned sprawling metropolitan battleground where politics and pond life ferociously collide.

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