" He has performed a number of their songs at his concerts and as homages on studio and live albums, while Hornsby originals " The Valley Road " and " Stander on the Mountain " have appeared several times in the Dead's setlists.

According to newspaper interviews with Stander, as a teenager he appeared in the 1926 silent film Men of Steel, perhaps as an extra ; he is not listed in the credits.

Stander stayed in Europe and eventually settled in Rome, where he appeared in many spaghetti Westerns, most notably playing a bartender named Max in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.

The CBS program starred Lionel Stander as J. Riley Farnsworth and had no real connection with the more famous series that followed a few years later.

* Lionel Stander in the Columbia Pictures films Meet Nero Wolfe ( 1936 ) and The League of Frightened Men ( 1937 )

Lionel Jay Stander ( January 11, 1908 – November 30, 1994 ) was an American actor in films, radio, theater and television.

Stander was in a string of films over the next three years, appearing most notably in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ) with Gary Cooper, playing Archie Goodwin in Meet Nero Wolfe ( 1936 ) and The League of Frightened Men ( 1937 ), and in A Star Is Born ( 1937 ) with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.

" Stander was again blacklisted from films, though he played on TV, radio, and in the theater.

After 15 years abroad, Stander moved back to the U. S. for the role he is now most famous for: Max, the loyal butler, cook, and chauffeur to the wealthy, amateur detectives played by Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers on the 1979 – 1984 television series Hart to Hart ( and a subsequent series of Hart to Hart made-for-television films ).

Unger starred in many independent films in the early 2000s, such as Signs and Wonders, Ten Tiny Love Stories, Fear X, Thirteen, Stander, Hollywood North ( film ), Emile, Paranoia 1. 0 and A Love Song for Bobby Long.

Ron Stander ( born 17 October 1944 in Columbia, South Carolina ) is a boxing referee and former professional boxer from Council Bluffs, Iowa, who was once a challenger for the heavyweight championship of the world.

Arden's quick wit made her a natural talent for radio ; she became a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.

Stander continued boxing until 1982 ; among his most notable opponents were future world title holders Ken Norton and Gerrie Coetzee, losing to both by TKO.

The gun discharged and Stander was hit ; he fell onto the apartment complex's driveway, bleeding profusely.

The film was then completed in 1972 with Gastone Moschin playing the role of Don Camillo and Lionel Stander as Peppone.

Lindisfarne ( particularly the castle ) is the setting of the Roman Polanski film Cul-de-Sac ( 1966 ) with Donald Pleasence and Lionel Stander, shot entirely on location there.

He suffered setbacks with losses to Ron Stander and Stan Johnson.

* May 26-Joe Frazier retains his world Heavyweight title with a five round knockout over Ron Stander in Omaha.

His first directorial efforts include the spaghetti westerns Scansati ... a Trinità arriva Eldorado and A Bounty Killer in Trinity, the decamerotic movies Novelle licenziose di vergini vogliose and More Sexy Canterbury Tales ( The Last Decameron ), the swashbuckler burlesque Pugni, Pirati e Karatè ( starring Richard Harrison, the war movie Heroes in Hell ( with Klaus Kinski ), the sword and sandal movies The Arena ( co-directing with Steve Carver ) and Livia, una vergine per l ' impero romano, the gothic giallo Death Smiles at a Murderer ( starring Klaus Kinski and Ewa Aulin ), and the western Cormack of the Mounties ( with Fabio Testi and Lionel Stander, shot in Canada alongside Lucio Fulci's The Return of White Fang on which D ' Amato worked as second unit director ).

On 11 August 1983, Stander and McCall, along with five other inmates, were taken off of Zonderwater Maximum Security Prison's premises for a physiotherapy appointment.

Once the prisoners were left alone with the physiotherapist, Stander and McCall overpowered her and escaped.

* Interest in Stander was first revived in 2000 with the play Stander by acclaimed South African playwright Charles J. Fourie in his one-man play featuring Afrikaans actor Albert Maritz.

* Carte Blanche Interview with Alan Heyl, the last surviving member of The Stander Gang who was released early 2005

Lionel Stander who was cast as Max, had worked with Robert Wagner in an episode of It Takes a Thief.

The film begins with gangster Dickie ( Stander ) pushing his broken-down car through rising seawater while his companion Albie ( MacGowran ) lies inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound after a bungled robbery.

In 1932, Stander landed his first credited film role in the Warner-Vitaphone short feature In the Dough, with Fatty Arbuckle and Shemp Howard.

At a grand jury hearing in Los Angeles in August 1940 — the transcript of which was shortly released to the press — John R. Leech, the self-described former " chief functionary " of the Communist Party in Los Angeles, named Stander as a CP member, along with more than 15 other Hollywood notables, including Franchot Tone, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Clifford Odets and Budd Schulberg.

He testified that he knew Stander, but didn't recall attending any CP meetings with him.

At a HUAC hearing in April 1951, actor Marc Lawrence named Stander as a member of his Hollywood Communist " cell ", along with screenwriter Lester Cole and screenwriter Gordon Kahn.

Life improved for Stander when he moved to London in 1964 to act in Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, directed by Tony Richardson, for whom he'd acted on Broadway, along with Christopher Plummer, in a stillborn 1963 production of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

Stander played a supporting role in the TV film Revenge Is My Destiny with Chris Robinson.

Stander was not knocked out by Frazier, but he lost by a technical knockout after the fourth round, due to heavy cuts, requiring 32 stitches after the fight.

Stander played the role of Spider Schultz in both Harold Lloyd's 1936 film The Milky Way and its 1946 remake starring Danny Kaye, The Kid from Brooklyn.

Cedar gives his cynical troubleshooter, ex-newspaperman Cornelius Cobb ( Lionel Stander ), the task of keeping reporters away from Deeds.

In that broadcast, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur and Lionel Stander reprised their roles from the 1936 film.

A monk ( Lionel Stander ), returning from Jerusalem, joins the crusade and hears the children's confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love.

Stander and McCall returned to Zonderwater on 31 October 1983, in order to spring Allen Heyl from the facility where he was taking a trade test.

Lionel Stander reprised his role as Max in five of the movies before his death ( from lung cancer ) in late 1994.

A syndicate bought the farm in 1875 from Stander and the town was proclaimed on 14 December 1878.

After that, Stander was blacklisted from TV and radio.

John also voiced Huffer, Windcharger, Thundercracker, and Alpha Trion from the 1980s mega-hit The Transformers and took over the role of Kup for the show's third season ( the character was voiced by Lionel Stander in The Transformers: The Movie ).

Eventual winner Burry Stander is second from left.