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Lionel Stander
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Actor Born: January 11, 1908 in New York City, NY Death: January 30, 1994 in Brentwood, CA Biography:Born in the Bronx, hulking, raspy-voiced comic actor "Lionel Stander" attended the University of North Carolina before making his professional stage debut at age 19. He appeared in a number of two-reel comedies produced at Vitaphone's Brooklyn studio before heading to Hollywood in 1935. Usually cast as a brutish gangster with intellectual pretensions, he was also memorable as the acerbic Corny Cobb in "Frank Capra"'s "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), the vengeful press agent Libby in the original A Star Is Born (1937), and Archie Goodwyn in a brace of "Nero Wolfe" mysteries produced by Columbia. An outspoken political liberal, Stander ran into trouble with the Dies Committee during the first Communist witchhunt in the early '40s, and by the end of the decade was blacklisted altogether when he refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. He supported himself as a stockbroker and... Full Biography
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