Fred Grandy
Fredrick Lawrence Fred Grandy is an American actor best known for his role as Gopher on the sitcom The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was most recently the host of The Grandy Group, a morning drive time radio talk show on 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C.
Grandy was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the youngest of three sons to William Grandy, who worked in his fathers insurance business, and his wife Bonnie. When he was eleven, Grandys father died of a heart attack. His mother died of an aneurysm a year later. The young Grandy was raised by Margaret Avery, his mothers best friend a widow, who later married his fathers doctor. He went to public schools until ninth grade, after which he attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, like his father and brothers had done. While there, Grandy was the roommate of David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was later best man at Eisenhowers wedding to Julie Nixon, the daughter of then Presidentelect Richard Nixon, in December 1968. Grandy graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors degree in English studies from Harvard University in 1970.
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