Don Grady
| Don Grady | |
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Grady (left) with William Demarest (right) in My Three Sons, 1969
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| Born |
Don Louis Agrati June 8, 1944 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Died | June 27, 2012 (aged 68) Thousand Oaks, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Occupation | Actor, musician, composer |
| Years active | 1954–2006 |
| Notable work |
Mouseketeer, My Three Sons |
| Spouse(s) |
Julie Boonisar (m. 1976–79) (divorced), Virginia Lewsader (m. 1985–2012) (his death) |
| Website | http://www.dongrady.com/ |
Don Louis Agrati (June 8, 1944 – June 27, 2012), better known as Don Grady, was an American actor, composer, and musician. He was well known both as one of Mickey Mouse's Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas on the long-running ABC/CBS television series My Three Sons. His sister was also an actress, billed as Lani O'Grady. Their mother was Mary Grady, a talent agent.
Grady was born Don Louis Agrati in San Diego, California, the son of Mary B. (née Castellino), a talent agent, and Lou Anthony Agrati, a sausage maker. He grew up in Lafayette, California, where he was a class president at Lafayette Elementary School; Stanley Junior High School, where he spent only a few months before being signed by Walt Disney and leaving the area; and Burbank High School (pictured as Don Agrati).
His acting credits included several Western series, including John Payne's The Restless Gun, Have Gun, Will Travel, Buckskin, Wagon Train and The Rifleman, in which he played two roles in the second season.
In December 1959, at the age of fifteen, Grady appeared in two different episodes of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, having played opposite Joan Crawford and Dick Powell. In "Rebel Ranger", he is cast as Rob Faring, the young son of Crawford's character, Stella Faring, a Confederate widow who tries to reclaim her former home and Rob's birthplace from the Unionist owner, Cass Taggart, played by Scott Forbes. Character actor John Anderson is cast as Fisk Madden, who tries to drive Taggart off his land and gain Stella's favor. The episode ends with Stella and Rob heading into a nearby town with the understanding that Taggart would call upon Stella for possible courtship even though Crawford was fifteen years Forbes' senior. Stella Faring reveals that she had been living during the war in San Antonio, Texas, also the birthplace of Joan Crawford.
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