{{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<ref name="a">{{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}}</ref> |children = 3<ref name="a" /> |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,<ref name="a" /> Grover attended the University of Missouri, where earned his music degree.<ref name="a" /> He made his theatre debut in 1951, appearing in the Broadway play, ''Seventeen'',<ref name="b">{{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}}</ref> playing the "Singer with the Orchestra".<ref name="broadway">{{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}}</ref> His last theatre credit was in the Broadway play ''Don't Call Back'' in 1975.<ref name="broadway" />
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''.<ref name="a" /><ref name="b" /><ref name="c">{{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}}</ref> He also played the recurring role of a somber judge in the legal drama TV series ''L.A. Law''.<ref name="a" />
Grover died in August 1997 of leukemia at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 71.<ref name="a" /><ref name="b" /><ref name="c" /><ref>{{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}}</ref> His body was cremated.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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