Known For: American actor (1908–1994)
Category: Actors
Occupation: actor, stage actor, television actor, film actor
Country: United States of America
City: The Bronx
Date of Birth: Saturday, 11 January 1908
Died: 1994-11-30 00:00:00 in Q65
Lionel Jay Stander was an American actor, activist, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. He had an extensive career in theatre, film, radio, and television that spanned nearly 70 years, from 1928 until 1994. He was known for his distinctive raspy voice and tough-guy demeanor, as well as for his vocal left-wing political stances. One of the first Hollywood actors to be subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was blacklisted from the late 1940s until the mid-1960s.
| BirthPlace | The Bronx |
| Education | Q192334, Q5244175 |
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Stander was born in The Bronx, New York City on 11 January 1908, to parents of Russian Jewish extraction. During his one year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he appeared in the student productions The Muse of the Unpublished Writer, and The Muse and the Movies: A Comedy of Greenwich Village. Stander's acting career began in 1928, as Cop and First Fairy in Him by E. E. Cummings, at the Provincetown Playhouse. He claimed that he got the roles because one of them required shooting craps, which he did well, and a friend in the company volunteered him. He appeared in a series of short-lived plays through the early 1930s, including The House Beautiful, which Dorothy Parker famously derided as "the play lousy".
