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Actress, Kirby Grant, was born Kirby Grant Hoon Jr. on Nov 24, 1911 in Butte, MT. Grant died at the age of 73 on Oct 30, 1985 in Titusville, FL .

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and Chinook in the Royal Mounted Police Movies

By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 23, 2025 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, starred in a series of Mountie films with "Chinook," a white German shepherd. Each film featured a mixture of adventure and mystery plots set in the wild Northwest territory of Canada. Grant played Corporal Roy Webb, a very personable officer of the Roy... Read full article


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Grant was killed in a road accident on October 30, 1985 while on his way to watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger at Cape Canaveral. He was to be honored by the shuttle astronauts for his achievements.

He was chosen as the male winner of Jesse L. Lasky's "Gateway to Hollywood" radio talent search in July, 1939. His reward was membership in the Screen Actor's Guild and the stage name "Robert Stanton", which he used for several years before reverting to his birth name. The female winner of the same contest was a woman named Dorothy Howe who became Virginia Vale.

After he left show business he became the public relations director for Sea World in Orlando, Florida.

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