Biography
Appreciated for his figure roles in such 1930s motion pictures as Match Nero Wolfe, A Star EXISTS, and Mr. Deeds Would go to Town, he’s also significant for his radio performing work, which include performances in the Lux Radio Movie theater show as well as the Eddie Cantor Present. After briefly participating in the School of NEW YORK at Chapel Hill, he made an appearance within a 1928 theatrical creation on the Provincetown Playhouse and continued to create his cinematic debut in the 1932 Fatty Arbuckle film In the Dough. A staunch liberal and labor unionist, he helped create the Screen Stars Guild and was afterwards investigated and eventually blacklisted with the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The son of Russian Jews, he spent his youth in The Bronx, NEW YORK. During the period of his six marriages — to Lucy Dietz, Alice Twitchell, Vehanne Monteagle, Diana Kadlec, Maria Penn, and Stephanie Van Hennick — he previously six children. He appeared with Harold Lang in 1952-1953 Broadway production from the musical Pal Joey.
Quick Facts
Full Name Lionel Stander
Date Of Birth January 11, 1908
Died November 30, 1994, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth New York
Height 1.84 m
Profession Movie Actor
Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nationality American
Spouse Stephanie Van Hennick, Maria Penn, Diana Radbec, Vehanne Monteagle, Alice Twitchell, Lucy Dietz
Movies Once Upon a Time in the West, Cul-de-sac, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, New York, New York, The Cassandra Crossing, A Star Is Born, The Transformers: The Movie, 1941, Wicked Stepmother, Boot Hill, The Loved One, Unfaithfully Yours, The Senator Likes Women, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Beyond the Law, Between Miracles, Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence, The Last Good Time, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Meet Nero Wolfe, Treasure Island, La novizia, More Than a Secretary, Promise Her Anything, The League of Frightened Men, The Scoundrel, Specter of the Rose, St. Benny the Dip, Gates to Paradise, Sting of the West, The Sensual Man, The Milky Way, The Big Show-Off, Dirty Weekend, The Crowd Roars, Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven, Seven Times Seven, Professor Beware, Trouble Makers, Tahiti Honey, What a Life, Two Gals and a Guy, The Bride Wore Crutches, Caliber 9, Pulp, Cyclone, Zenabel, Hart To Hart: Old Friends Never Die, The Music Goes 'Round, I Loved a Soldier, Hart To Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
TV Shows Hart to Hart, The Adventures of Pinocchio
Star Sign Capricorn
- Facts
- Filmography
- Awards
- Salaries
- Quotes
- Trademarks
- Pictures
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1 | Played "Spider" in both "The Milky Way" (1936) and its remake, "The Kid From Brooklyn" (1946). |
2 | Stander's name is mentioned along with Sterling Hayden's in the movie Guilty by Suspicion (1991), from a script by the blacklisted Communist Abraham Polonsky, when the protagonist is grilled by an inquisitorial committee bearing a resemblance to HUAC. |
3 | Tried to recruit Melvyn Douglas, a prominent liberal, to the Communist Party. |
4 | Was blacklisted during the 1950s when he was exposed as a Communist Party member during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Marc Lawrence had testified that Stander told him that joining the Party would make him more attractive to women. In his own HUAC testimony, Stander denounced Lawrence as a psychopath and presented a letter that gave Lawrence's mental history and revealed that he had been hospitalized after a mental breakdown just prior to his HUAC testimony. |
Actor
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart | 1995 | TV Movie | Max |
The Last Good Time | 1994 | | Howard Singer |
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die | 1994 | TV Movie | Max |
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart | 1994 | TV Movie | Max |
Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is | 1994 | TV Movie | Max |
Hart to Hart Returns | 1993 | TV Movie | Max |
Dream On | 1991 | TV Series | Uncle Pat |
Joey Takes a Cab | 1991 | | Joey |
The Boys | 1988-1989 | TV Series | Gene |
Cookie | 1989 | | Enzo Della Testa |
Wicked Stepmother | 1989 | | Sam |
Bellifreschi | 1987 | | Frank Santamaria |
CBS Summer Playhouse | 1987 | TV Series | Sully Carson |
Moonlighting | 1986 | TV Series | Max |
The Transformers: The Movie | 1986 | | Kup (voice) |
Hart to Hart | 1979-1984 | TV Series | Max |
1941 | 1979 | | Angelo Scioli |
The Squeeze | 1978 | | Sam |
Cyclone | 1978 | | Taylor |
Matilda | 1978 | | Pinky Schwab |
New York, New York | 1977 | | Tony Harwell |
The Sunshine Boys | 1977 | TV Movie | Al Lewis |
The Cassandra Crossing | 1976 | | Max, the Train Conductor |
San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne | 1976 | | Don Gervasio |
The Black Bird | 1975 | | Gordon Immerman |
La novizia | 1975 | | Don Nini |
Mark of Zorro | 1975 | | Padre Donato |
Red Coat | 1975 | | Doctor Higgins |
Di mamma non ce n'è una sola | 1974 | | Elia |
La via dei babbuini | 1974 | | |
Innocenza e turbamento | 1974 | | Salvatore Niscemi |
The Sensuous Sicilian | 1973 | | Baron Castorini |
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene | 1973 | | |
Il tuo piacere è il mio | 1973 | | Il marchese Cavalcanti / Il cardinale di Ragusa |
La mano nera | 1973 | | Lieutenant Giuseppe Petrosino |
Crescete e moltiplicatevi | 1973 | | |
Dirty Weekend | 1973 | | General |
Halleluja to Vera Cruz | 1973 | | Sam 'Tonaca"' Thompson |
Le avventure di Pinocchio | 1972 | TV Mini-Series | Mangiafoco |
Father Jackleg | 1972 | | Stinky Manure |
Treasure Island | 1972 | | Billy Bones |
Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi | 1972 | | Peppone |
All the Brothers of the West Support Their Father | 1972 | | |
Pulp | 1972 | | Ben Dinuccio |
The Senator Likes Women | 1972 | | Cardinal Maravidi |
Caliber 9 | 1972 | | Americano |
Piazza pulita | 1972 | | Pete's Old Gangster Friend |
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte | 1971 | | Katanga |
Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria | 1971 | | Lawyer Bartoli |
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight | 1971 | | Baccala |
Between Miracles | 1971 | | Oreste Micheli |
Crepa padrone, crepa tranquillo | 1970 | | |
Mir hat es immer Spaß gemacht | 1970 | | The Admiral |
Boot Hill | 1969 | | Mamy |
Zenabel | 1969 | | Pancrazio |
It Takes a Thief | 1969 | TV Series | Max |
Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano | 1969 | | Don Tosello |
H2S | 1969 | | |
Armchair Theatre | 1969 | TV Series | Patrick E. Pendergast |
Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | | Barman |
Gates to Paradise | 1968 | | Monk |
Al di là della legge | 1968 | | Preacher |
A Dandy in Aspic | 1968 | | Sobakevich |
Seven Times Seven | 1968 | | Sam |
Cul-De-Sac | 1966 | | Richard |
Promise Her Anything | 1966 | | Sam |
The Loved One | 1965 | | The Guru Brahmin |
The Wednesday Play | 1965 | TV Series | General Burroughs |
The Moving Finger | 1963 | | Anatole |
Blast of Silence | 1961 | | Narrator (voice, uncredited) |
St. Benny the Dip | 1951 | | Monk Williams |
Two Gals and a Guy | 1951 | | Mr. Seymour |
Big Town | 1951 | TV Series | |
Nash Airflyte Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
The Billy Rose Show | 1950 | TV Series | |
Drooler's Delight | 1949 | Short | Buzz Buzzard (voice, uncredited) |
Wild and Woody! | 1948 | Short | Buzz Buzzard (voice, uncredited) |
Trouble Makers | 1948 | | 'Hatchet' Moran |
Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | | Hugo Standoff |
Wet Blanket Policy | 1948 | Short | Buzz Buzzard (voice, uncredited) |
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven | 1948 | | Bellhop |
Call Northside 777 | 1948 | | Corrigan - Wiecek's Cellmate (uncredited) |
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | 1947 | | Max |
Fair Weather Fiends | 1946 | Short | Wolfie Wolf (voice, uncredited) |
Gentleman Joe Palooka | 1946 | | Harry Mitchell |
Specter of the Rose | 1946 | | Lionel Gans |
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog | 1946 | | Jim |
Who's Cookin Who? | 1946 | Short | Wolfie Wolf (voice, uncredited) |
In Old Sacramento | 1946 | | Eddie Dodge |
Apple Andy | 1946 | Short | The Devil (voice, uncredited) |
The Kid from Brooklyn | 1946 | | Spider Schultz |
The Loose Nut | 1945 | Short | Construction Worker (voice, uncredited) |
The Big Show-Off | 1945 | | Joe Bagley |
Fish Fry | 1944 | Short | Cat (voice, uncredited) |
Guadalcanal Diary | 1943 | | Sgt. Butch |
Tahiti Honey | 1943 | | Pinkie |
Hangmen Also Die! | 1943 | | Banya |
Hit Parade of 1941 | 1940 | uncredited | |
The Bride Wore Crutches | 1940 | | 'Flannel-Mouth' Moroni |
What a Life | 1939 | | Ferguson |
The Ice Follies of 1939 | 1939 | | Mort Hodges |
The Crowd Roars | 1938 | | 'Happy' Lane |
Professor Beware | 1938 | | Jerry |
No Time to Marry | 1938 | | Al Vogel |
The Last Gangster | 1937 | | 'Curly' |
The League of Frightened Men | 1937 | | Archie Goodwin |
A Star Is Born | 1937 | | Matt Libby |
I Loved a Soldier | 1936 | | |
More Than a Secretary | 1936 | | Ernest |
They Met in a Taxi | 1936 | | Fingers Garrison |
Meet Nero Wolfe | 1936 | | Archie Goodwin |
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | | Cornelius Cobb |
The Music Goes 'Round | 1936 | | O'Casey |
The Milky Way | 1936 | | Spider Schultz |
Soak the Rich | 1936 | | Muglia (kidnapper) |
If You Could Only Cook | 1935 | | Flash |
I Live My Life | 1935 | | Yaffitz, Bridge Player |
The Gay Deception | 1935 | | Gettel |
Page Miss Glory | 1935 | | Nick Papadopolis |
We're in the Money | 1935 | | Leonidus Giovanni 'Butch' Gonzola |
Hooray for Love | 1935 | | Chowsky |
The Scoundrel | 1935 | | Rothenstien |
The Old Grey Mayor | 1935 | Short | Alderman Tom Mulligan |
Guess Stars | 1935 | Short | |
Smoked Hams | 1934 | Short | Mr. Ivanitch |
I Scream | 1934 | Short | Micky Moran |
Pugs and Kisses | 1934 | Short | Slug Mosconi |
Mushrooms | 1934 | Short | Bertram |
Howd' Ya Like That? | 1934 | Short | Customs Officer |
Salt Water Daffy | 1933 | Short | Chief Petty Officer Lambert |
In the Dough | 1932 | Short | Toots (uncredited) |
Where Men Are Men | 1931 | Short | Nancy's boyfriend (uncredited) |
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Two Gals and a Guy | 1951 | dialogue director | |
Thanks
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time | 1995 | TV Movie in memory of | |
Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart | 1995 | TV Movie this program is dedicated to the memory of - as Lionel Stander 1908-1994 | |
Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Vicki! | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
American Masters | 1989 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
It's Garry Shandling's Show. | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | 1987 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Himself |
The 3th Annual American Cinema Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Himself |
The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1983 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special |
The 40th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1983 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV |
Today | 1982 | TV Series | Himself |
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Frank Capra | 1982 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1978 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
The Eamonn Andrews Show | 1965-1966 | TV Series | Himself |
The Inheritance | 1964 | Documentary short | Voice (uncredited) |
Watchtower Over Tomorrow | 1945 | Documentary short uncredited | |
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga | 1939 | Short | Himself (uncredited) |
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Won awards
Won awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie | Award shared with |
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1983 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Hart to Hart (1979) | |
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# | Quote |
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1 | [After being Blacklisted] I was an angry old man and now I'm a furious old one. |
2 | [Asking the House Un-American Activities Committee to turn off the television cameras and the lighting needed for them to function] "I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category." |
3 | [on his appearing as a regular in the television series Hart to Hart (1979)] "I'm in a television program that is always among the top 20, that's shown in 67 countries in the world, helping lobotomize the entire world". |
4 | [In testimony before HUAC] "I am not a dupe, a dope, or a moe, or a schmoe." |
# | Trademark |
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1 | Highly recognizable gruff voice. |