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Portrait of Lionel Stander

Michele Lupo (director), Juppiter Generale Cinematografica (production) · Public domain

Lionel Stander

American actor in films, radio

1908 – 1994aged 86

Lionel Stander was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild and one of the first Hollywood actors called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, refusing to cooperate and paying for it with a blacklist that lasted from the late 1940s into the mid-1960s. He kept working in Europe during those years, including a run of Spaghetti Westerns, and returned to American television in the 1980s, winning a Golden Globe for playing the majordomo Max on Hart to Hart.

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