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Graham Jarvis
Graham Jarvis
Graham Jarvis appears as Larry Grundy in the Season 2 AITF episode "Archie and the FBI" (#16).
Personal Information
Gender: Male
Born: (1930-08-25)August 25, 1930
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: April 16, 2003(2003-04-16) (aged 72)
Deathplace: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation/
Career:
Actor
Years active: 1956-2003, his death
Spouse(s): JoAnne Rader (? - 16 April 2003) (his death) 2 children
Related to: 2 sons, Alex and Matt
AIMR President Peter Jarvis (nephew)
Character/Series involvement
Series: All in the Family
Episodes appeared in: in "Archie and the FBI" (Season 2)
Character played: Larry Grundy
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Graham Jarvis (August 25, 1930 – April 16, 2003) appeared as Larry Grundy, a friend, neighbor and co-worker of Archie Bunker, who, like Archie,becomes paranoid as they become suspicious of one another when an FBI agent investigates both for the purpose of a DOD goverment project contracted to their employer in the All in the Family episode titled "Archie and the FBI" in Season 2 (#16, #29 overall). Graham was a seasoned Canadian character actor in American films and television from the 1960s.

Early life and acting career[]

Born in Toronto, Graham attended Williams College before moving to New York to pursue a career in theater. Jarvis appeared on such television programs as Naked City, Route 66, N.Y.P.D., Sanford and Son, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, M*A*S*H, Mork & Mindy, Starsky and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey, the NBC-TV series Fame, Married... with Children, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X Files, ER, and Six Feet Under. He also played character roles in many films. His last major part was as "Charles Jackson", father of Annie Jackson Camden in the Warner Brothers TV drama 7th Heaven, a role that he filled until his death.

Jarvis acted in the role of Elliot Sinclair in the Journeyman Project trio of video games and was also the narrator in the first American production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, playing alongside Meat Loaf and Tim Curry.

He lived in Los Angeles with his wife Joanna Jarvis, and two sons Alex and Matt. Jarvis was also the uncle of former AIMR President Peter Jarvis. In 2003, he died from multiple myeloma. He was interred at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.

Selected Filmography[]

  • Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
  • Alice's Restaurant (1969)
  • The Out-of-Towners (1970)
  • Cold Turkey (1971)
  • Prophecy (1979)
  • Silkwood (1983)
  • Tough Guys (1986)
  • Misery (1990)
  • Last of the Dogmen (1995)

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