Jack Grinnage

Jack Grinnage
Born	January 20, 1931 (1931-01-20)
Where	Los Angeles, U.S.
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Years Active	1954-2013
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Birth Name	Jack Eugene Stewart
Occupation	Actor
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Jack Grinnage (born January 20, 1931) is an American actor with a film and television career spanning seven decades. Born in Los Angeles, Grinnage made his first television appearances in 1954. The following year, he played as Moose – one of three teenage rebels who chase James Dean – in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Rebel Without a Cause was his first movie where he received a screen credit.

Jack Grinnage continued to play supporting roles or bit parts in films like King Creole (1958) with Elvis Presley, Spartacus| (1960) and The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968). He also played an errant but sympathetic boy in the Twilight Zone| episode The Mind and the Matter. In 1961, he appeared in the Broadway musical The Billy Barnes People. Between 1974 and 1975, he had a supporting role as News Service reporter Ron Updyke in the mystery series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. In 2009, Grinnage played the role of Marvell, the replacement janitor, in two episodes of Scrubs|. His most recent credit is the television series Ghost Ghirls (2013).

Filmography (selection)

• Father Knows Best (1954; TV series, 1 episode)
• Interrupted Melody (1955)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Gaby| (1956)
• The Silent Service| (1957-1958; TV series, 3 episodes)
• Wink of an Eye| (1958)
• King Creole (1958)
• Wolf Larsen| (1958)
• Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
• Spartacus| (1960)
• A Ticklish Affair (1963)
• Captain Newman (1963)
• Wagon Train (1958-1964; TV series, 3 episodes)
• Gunsmoke (1959-1966; TV series, 4 episodes)
• The Twilight Zone: The Mind and the Matter (1961; TV series)
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1966; TV series, 1 episode)
• The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
• Ironside| (1969; TV series, 1 episode)
• The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-1975; TV series, 18 episodes)
• Crackle of Death (1976)
• Zero to Sixty (1978)
• Lou Grant| (1978; TV series, one episode)
• Hotel| (1983; TV series, one episode)
• Six Feet Under| (2003; TV series, one episode)
• Scrubs (2009; TV series, two episodes)
• Ghost Ghirls (2013, TV series, one episode)

References

External links

• Jack Grinnage at the Internet Movie Database
• Jack Grinnage at Allmovie

Category:American male film actors Category:Living people Category:1931 births Category:American male television actors Category:20th-century American male actors Category:21st-century American male actors