Ed Grover obit

Edward Grover Obituary (1932-2016)

 

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Edward D. Grover was an American film, stage and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing Tony Baretta's supervisor Lieutenant Hal Brubaker in the American detective television series Baretta. Grover also played as Inspector Lombardo in the 1973 film Serpico.

Grover was born in Huntington Park, California, the son of Edna and A. Dee Grover. After living in Colorado and Illinois, Grover attended DeVilbiss High School in Toledo, Ohio where he graduated in 1950. After serving in the Korean War from 1954 to 1956 Grover was awarded a bachelor's degree by the University of Toledo in 1957, and received a scholarship for postgraduate study at the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. He graduated from the American Shakespeare Festival Academy before studying theatre at Juilliard School. Grover began his acting career in 1959. He performed with the repertory theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and also with the McCarter Company and at Antioch College Shakespeare Festival.

Grover guest-starred in television programs including The Jeffersons, Archie Bunker's Place, The Ropers, One Day at a Time, Hill Street Blues, Quincy, M.E., The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Fantasy Island and Hart to Hart. He starred in the 1973 film Who?, where Grover played Finchley. He played Adam Reynolds in the soap opera television series The Doctors. Grover appeared in the films Death Wish, Serpico, Law and Disorder and Report to the Commissioner. He retired from acting in 2008.

Grover died in November 2016 in Rolling Hills Estates, California, at the age of 84.

Actor

 

    Dana Carvey, Dick Butkus, James Farentino, and Bubba Smith in Blue Thunder (1984)

    Blue Thunder

        Ken Rawls (as Ed Grover)

        TV Series

        1984

 

Jack Klugman in Quincy M.E. (1976)

Quincy M.E.

 

    Agent NivenDr. Richard MonroeAgent Devon ...

 

    TV Series

 

    1978–1983

 

George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict, and Dwight Schultz in The A-Team (1983)

The A-Team

 

    Major Briggs (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1983

 

Lee Horsley in Matt Houston (1982)

Matt Houston

 

    Captain Kerrigan (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1983

 

Robert Clohessy, Michael Warren, and Bruce Weitz in Hill Street Blues (1981)

Hill Street Blues

 

    Stoughton Davis (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1983

 

Games Mother Never Taught You (1982)

Games Mother Never Taught You

 

    Pete Kelsey (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Movie

 

    1982

 

Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982)

Bring 'Em Back Alive

 

    Gordon (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1982

 

Martin Balsam, Carroll O'Connor, Danielle Brisebois, and Jean Stapleton in Archie Bunker's Place (1979)

Archie Bunker's Place

 

    Coach Green (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1982

 

The Greatest American Hero (1981)

The Greatest American Hero

 

    Bunker

 

    TV Series

 

    1982

 

Dorian Harewood, Michael Goodwin, Trisha Noble, Richard Romanus, and Robert Stack in Strike Force (1981)

Strike Force

 

    Tidings (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1981

 

Insight (1960)

Insight

 

    Father Bob (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1981

 

Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Tales of the Unexpected

 

    Bailout

 

    TV Series

 

    1981

 

Claude Akins, Brian Kerwin, and Mills Watson in The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979)

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

 

    Councilman Mark Davis

 

    TV Series

 

    1981

 

Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Magnum, P.I.

 

    Hooker, the CIA Agent (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1981

 

A Rumor of War (1980)

A Rumor of War

 

    Coker (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Mini Series

 

    1980

 

Ron Moody in Nobody's Perfect (1980)

Nobody's Perfect

 

    Pierre (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1980

 

Joe Don Baker in Eischied (1979)

Eischied

 

    Hugh Minny (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1980

 

Norman Fell and Audra Lindley in The Ropers (1979)

The Ropers

 

    Reverend Harper

 

    TV Series

 

    1980

 

Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox in CHiPs (1977)

CHiPs

 

    Sam Weber

 

    TV Series

 

    1980

 

High Midnight (1979)

High Midnight

 

    Lt. Donovan

 

    TV Movie

 

    1979

 

Kate Mulgrew in Mrs. Columbo (1979)

Mrs. Columbo

 

    Liggett (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1979

 

Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart (1979)

Hart to Hart

 

    Morgan (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1979

 

Edward Asner in Lou Grant (1977)

Lou Grant

 

    John Bertram (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1979

 

Ricardo Montalban and Hervé Villechaize in Fantasy Island (1977)

Fantasy Island

 

    Marsh

 

    TV Series

 

    1979

 

One Day at a Time (1975)

One Day at a Time

 

    Albert Rutledge

 

    TV Series

 

    1979

 

The White Shadow (1978)

The White Shadow

 

    (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Series

 

    1978

 

Marla Gibbs, Paul Benedict, Franklin Cover, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Isabel Sanford, and Berlinda Tolbert in The Jeffersons (1975)

The Jeffersons

 

    Phil Taylor

 

    TV Series

 

    1978

 

Robert Blake in Baretta (1975)

Baretta

 

    Lt. Hal Brubaker

 

    TV Series

 

    1975–1978

 

Strike Force (1975)

Strike Force

 

    Captain Peterson (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Movie

 

    1975

 

Report to the Commissioner (1975)

Report to the Commissioner

 

    Captain Strichter

 

    1975

 

Law and Disorder (1974)

Law and Disorder

 

    Capt. Malloy (as Ed Grover)

 

    1974

 

Charles Bronson in Death Wish (1974)

Death Wish

 

    Lt. Briggs (as Ed Grover)

 

    1974

 

Who? (1974)

Who?

 

    Finchley (as Ed Grover)

 

    1974

 

David O'Brien in The Doctors (1963)

The Doctors

 

    Adam Reynolds

 

    TV Series

 

    1971–1974

 

Serpico (1973)

Serpico

 

    Lombardo (as Ed Grover)

 

    1973

 

Ruby Dee and Frank Converse in Chelsea D.H.O. (1973)

Chelsea D.H.O.

 

    Axel Thorsen (as Ed Grover)

 

    TV Movie

 

    1973

 

American Heritage - American Revolution I: The Cause of Liberty

 

    Edmund Burke

 

    TV Short

 

    1972

 

Postmark Zero

 

    TV Movie