- Born
- Nickname
- Rosey
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- Former star player with the Los Angeles Rams during the 1960s, this impressively built African-American athlete broke into acting via appearances in TV shows including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), The Wild Wild West (1965) and I Dream of Jeannie (1965).
Grier received positive reviews for his role in the TV movie The Desperate Mission (1969) and then landed a recurring role alongside Fess Parker in the hugely popular children's TV series Daniel Boone (1964). This led to a short-lived stint as host of his own variety show The Rosey Grier Show (1968) which only ran the one season. He kept busy with work in other TV shows and appeared in several feature films including Skyjacked (1972), The Thing with Two Heads (1972) and The Timber Tramps (1973).
He continued to turn up in a handful of minor roles throughout the 1970s, but arguably did not possess the acting skill of other prominent African-American athletes-turned-actors such as Fred Williamson, Jim Brown and Jim Kelly.
He became an ordained minister in 1983, and has continued to champion the causes of those less fortunate, and to guide inner city teens from poor backgrounds.- IMDb Mini Biography By: firehouse44@hotmail.com
- SpousesCydnee Seyler(April 30, 2013 - present)Margie Grier(1981 - June 10, 2011) (her death)Margie Grier(July 1, 1973 - 1978) (divorced, 1 child)Beatrice Lewis(February 2, 1962 - 1970) (divorced)
- RelativesPam Grier(Cousin)
- He and Olympic Gold Medal Winner Rafer Johnson helped capture and detain Robert F. Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan June 6, 1968; Grier placed his sizable thumb behind the trigger of Sirhan's gun to prevent him from firing the weapon at anyone else in the crowd.
- One of his hobbies is needlepoint which he taught to Tab Hunter.
- Along with Merlin Olsen, Lamar Lundy and Deacon Jones, formed the "Fearsome Foursome" of the L.A. Rams. He is the last surviving member.
- Became an ordained minister in 1983 and founded an inner city teen resource center the following year.
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