Lionel Stander
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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 journeyman stage actor until he was "rescued" by director Tony Richardson, who cast Stander in an important role in The Loved One. After his riveting portrayal of an American mobster in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac (1966), he became something of a cult figure in Europe, working steadily in spaghetti Westerns and crime thrillers. Back in the U..S in the 1970s, he essayed one of his best roles as Liza Minelli's agent in Martin Scorsese's New York, New York. TV fans knew Lionel Stander best as resourceful general factotum Max on the Robert Wagner-Stefanie Powers adventure series Hart to Hart (1979-1994).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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89% | The Last Good Time |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | The Heist |
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— | 1989 |
14% | Cookie |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Wicked Stepmother |
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— | 1989 |
42% | 1941 |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | The Squeeze (The Rip-Off) |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Matilda |
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— | 1978 |
58% | New York, New York |
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— | 1977 |
30% | The Cassandra Crossing |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Cyclone (Terror Storm) (Tornado) |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Black Hand |
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— | 1976 |
33% | The Black Bird |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | All'onorevole piacciono le donne (The Eroticist) |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Sensual Man |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Treasure Island |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Milano Calibro 9 (Caliber 9) |
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— | 1972 |
75% | Pulp |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Sting of the West |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York |
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— | 1972 |
0% | The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Per Grazia Ricevuta |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of Pinocchio |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano) |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Boot Hill |
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— | 1969 |
95% | Once Upon a Time in the West |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | A Dandy in Aspic |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Beyond The Law |
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— | 1968 |
83% | Cul-de-Sac |
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— | 1966 |
47% | The Loved One |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Promise Her Anything |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | The Moving Finger |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | St. Benny the Dip |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Mad Wednesday |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | A Boy, a Girl and a Bike |
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— | 1949 |
94% | Unfaithfully Yours |
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— | 1948 |
79% | Call Northside 777 |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven |
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— | 1948 |
89% | Sin of Harold Diddlebock |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Specter of the Rose |
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— | 1946 |
60% | The Kid From Brooklyn |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | The Big Show-Off |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Guadalcanal Diary |
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— | 1943 |
85% | Hangmen Also Die |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Ice Follies of 1939 |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | The Crowd Roars |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Professor Beware |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | The Last Gangster |
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— | 1937 |
100% | A Star Is Born |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | More than a Secretary |
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— | 1936 |
91% | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | The Milky Way |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | The Music Goes 'Round |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Meet Nero Wolfe |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | The Gay Deception |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | Page Miss Glory |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | The Scoundrel |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | If You Could Only Cook |
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— | 1935 |
40% | I Live My Life |
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— | 1935 |
No Score Yet | The Old Grey Mayor |
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— | 1935 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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89% |
Moonlighting
1985-1989
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No Score Yet |
Hart to Hart
1979-1984
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Quotes from Lionel Stander's Characters
Richard: | Here we are. |
Albert: | Where? |
Richard: | In this shit. |