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Wednesday 07:30 to 14:30 Thorpe Station

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++++ Wednesday ++++ 07:30 to 14:30 Thorpe Station

755405 & 755406 & 755335 platform 2 for 1P15 07 30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street night shift 


745009 platform 1 arrived at 07:07 for 9P19 08 00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street night πŸŒ‰ shift clean

755413 platform 4 1P00 06 39 Ipswich to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 07:19 for lock πŸ”’ up  5P90


Moved to Jubilee next to platform 7

745002 platform 2 1P02 06:00 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 07:45 (07:47) for 1P21 08:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎ may be ? 


Barrow left by night shift full up, much better than yesterday.

745110 platform 1 1P04 06:25 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 08:18  (08:20) for 1P23 09:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎπŸš»


158770 platform 3 1L01 04:56 Nottingham Midland to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 08:10 (08:11) for 1R66 08:56 Norwich Thorpe to Liverpool Lime Street 14:29

745003 platform 2 1P06 07:00 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 08:45 (08:47) for 1P25 09:32 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 11:17 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎπŸš»

745104 platform 1 1P08 07:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 09:16 (09:19) for 1P27 10:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 11:47 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎπŸš»

745001 platform 2 1P10 08:00 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 09:43 (09:45) for 1P29 10:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 12:17 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎ


158857 platform 3 1L02 06:07 Nottingham Midland to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 09:37 (09:15 due)  for 1R68 09:55 Norwich Thorpe to Liverpool Lime Street 15:29

745006 platform 1 1P12 08:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 10:15 (10:18)  not for 1P31 11:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 12:47 


745107 should be 1P31

745006 platform 1 1P12 08:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 10:15 (10:18) for 1P31 11:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 12:47 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎπŸš»


Silly me, my brain 🧠 a hour ahead , 🀑

745102 platform 2 1P14 09:00 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 10:46 (10:46) for 1P33 11 32 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 13:17 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸͺ πŸšΎ

745004 platform 1 1P16 09:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 11:15 (11:18) not  for 1P35 12 00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 13:47 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎ


745107 from CPD for 1P35 12:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 


755421 Middle Road πŸ›£️, just noticed this at 11:09.


158780 platform 4b 1L05 07:43 Sheffield Midland to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 11:19 (due 11:10 expected 11:18) for 1R72 11:56 Norwich Thorpe to Liverpool Lime Street 17:29

755405 & 755406 & 755335  platform 2 1P18 10:00 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 11:41  (11:44) for 1P37 12:32 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 14:17 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎ


745- CPD Reception signal πŸš₯🚦 no 535 , notice at 11:33.


745004 platform 1 left at 11:41

755101 platform 1 arrived at 11:51 for 1P35 12:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

745009 platform 1 1P20 10:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at. 12:19  (12:21) for 1P39 13:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎ


158866 platform 4B 1L06 07:16 Warrington Central to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 12:36 (due 12:13 expected 12:31 ) for 1R74 12:56 Norwich Thorpe to Liverpool Lime Street 18:29 


The first train, 1L07 07:48 Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich Thorpe due 13:14, expect 13:27 platform 6

745002 platform 2 1P22 11:00 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at  12:42 (12:44) for 1P41 13:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 15:17 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎ

745008 platform 1 1P24 11:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 13:17  (13:18) for 1P43 14:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 15:47 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎπŸš»


158 platform 6 1L07 07:48 Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at (due 13:14 expected 13:37) for 13:54 Norwich Thorpe to Liverpool Lime Street 19:29


Two days I could of done 12 hours, but I feel that I am booked enough hours, silly me is doing 12 hours tomorrow. 


745003 my last train πŸš† for today ?

745008 platform 1 1P24 11:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 13:17  (13:18) for 1P43 14:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 15:47 cleaning 🧹🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎπŸš»


158862 platform 6 1L07 07:48 Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 13:40 (due 13:14 expected 13:37) for 1R76 13:54 Norwich Thorpe to Liverpool Lime Street 19:29


Two days I could of done 12 hours, but I feel that I am booked enough hours, silly me is doing 12 hours tomorrow. 


745003 my last train πŸš† for today ?

745003 platform 2 1P26 12:00 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 13:43 (13:44) for 1P45 14:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 16:18 cleaning 🧹 🧼 toilets 🚽πŸͺ πŸšΎπŸš»

755420 & 755423 Low Level

745104 platform 1 1P28 12:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 14:17 for 1P47 15:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street late shift


I am working 35 hours Monday to Friday 07:30 to 14:30, plus Sunday and Saturday Rest Day 12 hours each, 09:30 to 21:30, extra 24 hours = 59 hours, I am working Thursday 09:30 to 21:30, extra five hours = 64 hours.

but could of worked yesterday and today 12 hours, that would = 74 hours ? a little over 72 hours max, of course  did not.


Evening Standard

I got back to the railway station in the afternoon, well early evening, to get some Evening Standards, used to get lots of them, but now days, there are very few copies to pick up.

There are plans to stop printing the weekday paper newspaper, and going weekly I think, online, because even with a free newspaper, there are less people reading it. 



Monday

[15:42, 29/07/2024] Michael NoΓ«l Turner: 755418 Low Level coming out for service soon ?

[17:07, 29/07/2024] Michael NoΓ«l Turner: 755405 755406 755335 platform 2 for 17:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street

[17:09, 29/07/2024] Michael NoΓ«l Turner: 755410 platform 4 2P32 17:36 Norwich Thorpe to Great Yarmouth Vauxhall

[17:17, 29/07/2024] Michael NoΓ«l Turner: 745010 platform 1 1P40 15:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 17:17 for 1P59 18:00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 19:52, for Evening Standards πŸ“°πŸ—ž️πŸ—ž️πŸ—ž️πŸ“° 


170208 just left (17:14) platform 6 for Liverpool Lime Street, sorry 1M82 16:56 Norwich Thorpe to Manchester Piccadilly 21:35


Tuesday

755405 755406 755335 platform 2 for 17:30 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 


755413 Middle Road 


755415 platform 6

PAY UPDATE – TRAIN OPERATING COMPANIES

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30 July 2024


 


 


Dear RMT Member


 


PAY UPDATE – TRAIN OPERATING COMPANIES


 


A meeting has taken place today between your RMT negotiating team and senior officials from the Department for Transport. 


 


I reiterated the need for an unconditional proposal on pay that will enable us to conclude the recent disputes at all of the TOCs, for all of our grades and members covered by collective bargaining.


 


Following a productive discussion, the DfT committed to formulating a definite proposal for your union to consider shortly. 


 


A further meeting is being arranged where I expect to receive the proposal.


 


I will advise you of all developments.


 


Yours sincerely


 


Michael Lynch


General Secretary

745003 platform 4 1P40 15:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe arrived at 7:21 (17:20) for 1P59 18 00 Norwich Thorpe to London Liverpool Street 19:52 , looking for Evening Standards πŸ“°πŸ—ž️πŸ—ž️πŸ—ž️πŸ—ž️ 


755336 platform 7 left at 17:18 for platform 5B and 17:36 Norwich Thorpe to Great Yarmouth Vauxhall 18:09.

Pulp | English Full Movie | Comedy Crime Drama



Pulp is a 1972 British comedy thriller film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels.[1] The film features the final screen appearance of Lizabeth Scott.

Pulp, originally titled Memoirs of a Ghost Writer, was almost entirely shot on the island of Malta.[2] Facilities were provided by the then Malta Film Facilities and Intermed Sound Studio, later known as Britannia Film Sound Studios.

Plot

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Writer Mickey King lives in Malta churning out a string of violent, sexually charged hardboiled pulp fiction novels under an array of lewd pen names like "S. Odomy".

King is offered an abnormally large sum to ghostwrite the autobiography of a mystery celebrity. The intrigued King agrees and is transported to a remote island, during which time he will make contact with a representative for the celebrity. King meets a man named Miller, who identifies himself as an English professor. King assumes Miller is the mysterious contact—until discovering Miller dead in his bathtub after a hotel room mix-up.

Finally arriving on the island, King meets his subject: Preston Gilbert. A retired movie star, Gilbert is known for portraying gangsters and notorious for hanging out with real-life mobsters off the set. Now suffering from cancer, the pompous, vain Gilbert wants King to immortalize his life story before he dies.

Gilbert is planning a fancy birthday celebration. Among the attendees is Princess Betty Cippola, a man-hungry social climber who seems to have a sordid history with Gilbert. However, after the party is underway and Gilbert has staged a practical joke, Miller returns, now dressed as a Catholic priest. Sensing danger, King flees as Miller opens fire, killing Gilbert. The partygoers assume it's another prank, and applaud as Gilbert dies.

Gilbert's death leaves King with no conclusion to his tale. Playing detective like the heroes of his stories, King pieces together the mystery. He learns that Gilbert's proposed autobiography has alarmed several of the actor's erstwhile associates, who worry their schemes and crimes might be exposed.

Cast

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Pulp
Directed byMike Hodges
Written byMike Hodges
Produced byMichael Klinger
StarringMichael Caine 
Mickey Rooney 
Lionel Stander 
Lizabeth Scott 
Nadia Cassini
CinematographyOusama Rawi
Edited byJohn Glen
Music byGeorge Martin
Production
company
Three Michaels Film Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
  • 16 August 1972 (London)
  • November 1972 (limited)
  • 8 February 1973 (New York City)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Lionel Jay Stander (January 11, 1908 – November 30, 1994) was an American actor, activist, and a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. He had an extensive career in theatre, film, radio, and television that spanned nearly 70 years, from 1928 until 1994. He was known for his distinctive raspy voice and tough-guy demeanor, as well as for his vocal left-wing political stances. One of the first Hollywood actors to be subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was blacklisted from the late 1940s until the mid-1960s. 

Following his experience with the Hollywood Blacklist, Stander moved to Europe, where he appeared in many genre films, including several Spaghetti Westerns. He returned to the United States later in the decade, playing the role of the majordomo Max on the 1980s mystery television series Hart to Hart, earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

Early life

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Stander was born in The BronxNew York City on 11 January 1908, to parents of Russian Jewish extraction.

During his one year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he appeared in the student productions The Muse of the Unpublished Writer,[1]and  The Muse and the Movies: A Comedy of Greenwich Village.

Career

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Stander's acting career began in 1928, as Cop and First Fairy in Him by E. E. Cummings, at the Provincetown Playhouse.[2] He claimed that he got the roles because one of them required shooting craps, which he did well, and a friend in the company volunteered him. He appeared in a series of short-lived plays through the early 1930s, including The House Beautiful, which Dorothy Parker famously derided as "the play lousy".[3]

Early film roles

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Like many New York-based stage actors, Stander found additional work in movie short subjects filmed in New York. He signed with Vitaphone and was featured (without screen credit) in the two-reel comedy In the Dough (1933), with Roscoe Arbuckle and Shemp Howard. He made several other Vitaphone comedies, usually as a comic tough guy, villain, or authority figure; his last Vitaphone short was The Old Grey Mayor (1935) with Bob Hope in 1935. That same year, he was cast in a feature, Ben Hecht's The Scoundrel (1935), with NoΓ«l Coward. He moved to Hollywood and signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. 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 CooperMeet Nero Wolfe (1936) playing Archie GoodwinThe League of Frightened Men(1937), and A Star Is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.[citation needed]

Radio roles

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Stander's distinctive rumbling voice, tough-guy demeanor, and talent with accents made him a popular radio actor. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was on The Eddie Cantor ShowBing Crosby's KMH show, the Lux Radio Theater production of A Star Is BornThe Fred Allen Show,[4] the Mayor of the Town series with Lionel Barrymore and Agnes MooreheadKraft Music Hall on NBCStage Door Canteen on CBS, the Lincoln Highway Radio Show on NBC, and The Jack Paar Show, among others.

In 1941, he starred in a short-lived radio show called The Life of Riley on CBS (no relation to the radio, film, and television character later made famous by William Bendix). Stander played the role of Spider Schultz in both Harold Lloyd's film The Milky Way (1936) and its remake ten years later, The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), starring Danny Kaye. He was a regular on Danny Kaye's zany comedy-variety radio show on CBS (1946–1947), playing himself as "just the elevator operator" amidst the antics of Kaye, future Our Miss Brooks star Eve Arden, and bandleader Harry James.[citation needed]

Also during the 1940s, he played several characters on The Woody Woodpecker and Andy Panda animated theatrical shorts, produced by Walter Lantz Productions. For Woody Woodpecker, he provided the voice of Buzz Buzzard, but was blacklisted from the Lantz studio in 1951 and was replaced by Dal McKennon.

Activism

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Stander espoused a variety of social and political causes, and was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. At a SAG meeting held during a 1937 studio technicians' strike, he told the assemblage of 2000 members: "With the eyes of the whole world on this meeting, will it not give the Guild a black eye if its members continue to cross picket lines?" (The NY Times reported: "Cheers mingled with boos greeted the question.") Stander also supported the Conference of Studio Unions in its fight against the Mob-influenced International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Also in 1937, Ivan F. Cox, a deposed officer of the San Francisco longshoremen's union, sued Stander and a host of others, including union leader Harry Bridges, actors Fredric MarchFranchot ToneMary AstorJames CagneyJean Muir, and director William Dieterle. The charge, according to Time magazine, was "conspiring to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job".[citation needed]

During the Spanish Civil War, Stander fundraised for the Republican cause, and later campaigned for the release of the Scottsboro Boys.[5] He was a member of the Popular Front from 1936 until 1939, and later the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. Regarding his political beliefs, Stander later described himself as "lefter than the Left" and supported the Communist Party USA prior to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (which he opposed), though he was never a registered member of the party nor considered himself one.[6]

In 1938, Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn allegedly called Stander "a Red son of a bitch" and threatened a US$100,000 fine against any studio that renewed his contract. Despite critical acclaim for his performances, Stander's film work dropped off drastically. After appearing in 15 films in 1935 and 1936, he was in only six in 1937 and 1938. This was followed by just six films from 1939 through 1943, none made by major studios, the most notable being Guadalcanal Diary (1943).[citation needed]

Stander and HUAC

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Stander was among the first group of Hollywood actors to be subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1940 for supposed Communist activities. 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 ToneHumphrey BogartJames CagneyClifford Odets and Budd Schulberg. Stander subsequently forced himself into the grand jury hearing, and the district attorney cleared him of the allegations.

Stander appeared in few films in 1944 and 1945. Then, with HUAC's attentions focused elsewhere due to World War II, he played in a number of mostly second-rate pictures from independent studios through the late 1940s. These include Ben Hecht's Specter of the Rose (1946); the Preston Sturges comedy The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) with Harold Lloyd; and Trouble Makers (1948) with The Bowery Boys. One classic emerged from this period of his career, the Preston Sturges comedy Unfaithfully Yours (1948) with Rex Harrison.

In 1947, HUAC turned its attention once again to Hollywood. That October, Howard Rushmore, who had belonged to the CPUSA in the 1930s and written film reviews for the Daily Worker, testified that writer John Howard Lawson, whom he named as a Communist, had "referred to Lionel Stander as a perfect example of how a Communist should not act in Hollywood." Stander was again blacklisted from films, though he played on TV, radio, and in the theater.[7]

In March 1951, actor Larry Parks, after pleading with HUAC investigators not to force him to "crawl through the mud" as an informer, named several people as Communists in a "closed-door session", which made the newspapers two days later. He testified that he knew Stander, but did not recall attending any CP meetings with him.[8]

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.[9] Lawrence testified that Stander "was the guy who introduced me to the party line", and that Stander said that by joining the CP, he would "get to know the dames more"[10] — which Lawrence, who did not enjoy film-star looks, thought a good idea. Upon hearing of this, Stander shot off a telegram to HUAC chair John S. Wood, calling Lawrence's testimony that he was a Communist "ridiculous" and asking to appear before the Committee, so he could swear to that under oath. The telegram concluded: "I respectfully request an opportunity to appear before you at your earliest possible convenience. Be assured of my cooperation." Two days later, Stander sued Lawrence for $500,000 for slander. Lawrence left the country ("fled", according to Stander) for Europe.

After that, Stander was blacklisted from TV and radio. He continued to act in theater roles, and played Ludlow Lowell in the 1952-53 revival of Pal Joey on Broadway and on tour.

Blacklisting

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Two years passed before Stander was issued the requested subpoena. Finally, in May 1953, he testified at a HUAC hearing in New York, where he made front-page headlines nationwide by being uproariously uncooperative, memorialized in the Eric Bentley play, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been. The New York Times headline was "Stander Lectures House Red Inquiry." In a dig at bandleader Artie Shaw, who had tearfully claimed in a Committee hearing that he had been "duped" by the Communist Party, Stander testified, 

"I am not a dupe, or a dope, or a moe, or a schmoe... I was absolutely conscious of what I was doing, and I am not ashamed of anything I said in public or private."

An excerpt from that statement was engraved in stone for "The First Amendment Blacklist Memorial" by Jenny Holzer at the University of Southern California.

Other notable statements during Stander's 1953 HUAC testimony:

  • "[Testifying before HUAC] is like the Spanish Inquisition. You may not be burned, but you can't help coming away a little singed."
  • "I don't know about the overthrow of the government. This committee has been investigating 15 years so far, and hasn't found one act of violence."
  • "I know of a group of fanatics who are desperately trying to undermine the Constitution of the United States by depriving artists and others of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without due process of law... I can tell names and cite instances and I am one of the first victims of it. And if you are interested in that and also a group of ex-fascists and America-Firsters and anti-Semites, people who hate everybody including Negroes, minority groups and most likely themselves... and these people are engaged in a conspiracy outside all the legal processes to undermine the very fundamental American concepts upon which our entire system of democracy exists."[11]
  • "...I don't want to be responsible for a whole stable of informers, stool pigeons, and psychopaths and ex-political heretics, who come in here beating their breast and say, 'I am awfully sorry; I didn't know what I was doing. Please--I want absolution; get me back into pictures.'"
  • "My estimation of this committee is that this committee arrogates judicial and punitive powers which it does not possess."

Stander also denied having been a Communist "now or yesterday." But when asked if he had ever been a party member, he refused to answer, calling it "a trick question."[citation needed]

Stander was blacklisted from the late 1940s until 1965; perhaps the longest period.[11]

Career in independent films in Europe

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After that, Stander's acting career went into a free fall. He worked as a stockbroker on Wall Street, a journeyman stage actor, a corporate spokesman—even a New Orleans Mardi Gras king. He didn't return to Broadway until 1961 (and then only briefly in a flop) and to film in 1963, in the low-budget The Moving Finger (although he did provide, uncredited, the voice-over narration for the 1961 film noir Blast of Silence.)

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 1963 production of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. In 1965, he was featured in the film Promise Her Anything. That same year Richardson cast him in the black comedy about the funeral industry, The Loved One, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, with an all-star cast including Jonathan WintersRobert MorseLiberaceRod SteigerPaul Williams and many others. In 1966, Roman Polanski cast Stander in his only starring role, as the thug Dickie in Cul-de-sac, opposite FranΓ§oise DorlΓ©ac and Donald Pleasence.

Stander in Stanza 17-17 (1971)

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. He played the role of the villainous mob boss in Fernando Di Leo's 1972 poliziottesco thriller Caliber 9. In Rome he connected with Robert Wagner, who cast him in an episode of It Takes a Thief that was shot there. Stander's few English-language films in the 1970s include The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight with Robert De Niro and Jerry OrbachSteven Spielberg's 1941, and Martin Scorsese's New York, New York, which also starred De Niro and Liza Minnelli.

Stander played a supporting role in the TV film Revenge Is My Destiny with Chris Robinson. He played a lounge comic modeled after the real-life Las Vegas comic Joe E. Lewis, who used to begin his act by announcing "Post Time" as he sipped his ever-present drink.

Hart to Hart and other roles

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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 Jonathan and Jennifer Hart played by Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powerson the 1979–1984 television series Hart to Hart (and a subsequent series of Hart to Hart made-for-television films). In 1982, Stander won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

In 1986, he became the voice of Kup in The Transformers: The Movie. In 1991 he was a guest star in the television series Dream On, playing Uncle Pat in the episode "Toby or Not Toby". His final theatrical film role was as a dying hospital patient in The Last Good Time (1994), with Armin Mueller-Stahl and Olivia d'Abo, directed by Bob Balaban.

Personal life and death

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Stander died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California, in 1994 at age 86.[citation needed]

Filmography

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TitleYearRoleNotes
In the Dough1933TootsShort, uncredited
The Scoundrel1935Rothenstien
Hooray for Love1935Chowsky
We're in the Money1935Leonidus Giovanni 'Butch' Gonzola
Page Miss Glory1935Nick Papadopolis
The Gay Deception1935Gettel
I Live My Life1935Yaffitz, Bridge Player
If You Could Only Cook1935Flash
Soak the Rich1936Muglia (kidnapper)
The Milky Way1936Spider Schultz
The Music Goes 'Round1936O'Casey
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town1936Cornelius Cobb
Meet Nero Wolfe1936Archie Goodwin
They Met in a Taxi1936Fingers Garrison
More Than a Secretary1936Ernest
I Loved a Soldier1936Unfinished
A Star Is Born1937Matt Libby
The League of Frightened Men1937Archie Goodwin
The Last Gangster1937'Curly'
No Time to Marry1938Al Vogel
Professor Beware1938Jerry
The Crowd Roars1938'Happy' Lane
The Ice Follies of 19391939Mort Hodges
What a Life1939Ferguson
The Bride Wore Crutches1940'Flannel-Mouth' Moroni
Hit Parade of 19411940Uncredited
Hangmen Also Die!1943Banya
Tahiti Honey1943Pinkie
Guadalcanal Diary1943Sgt. Butch
Fish Fry1944Cat (voice)Uncredited
The Big Show-Off1945Joe Bagley
The Kid from Brooklyn1946Spider Schultz
In Old Sacramento1946Eddie Dodge
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog1946Jim
Specter of the Rose1946Lionel Gans
Gentleman Joe Palooka1946Harry Mitchell
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock1947Max
Call Northside 7771948Corrigan - Wiecek's CellmateUncredited
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven1948Bellhop
Wet Blanket Policy1948Buzz Buzzard (voice)Short, uncredited
Unfaithfully Yours1948Hugo Standoff
Trouble Makers1948'Hatchet' Moran
Wild and Woody!1948Buzz Buzzard (voice)Short, uncredited
Drooler's Delight1949Buzz Buzzard (voice)Short, uncredited
Two Gals and a Guy1951Mr. Seymour
St. Benny the Dip1951Monk Williams
Blast of Silence1961Narrator (voice)Uncredited
The Moving Finger1963Anatole
The Loved One1965The Guru Brahmin
Promise Her Anything1966Sam
Cul-de-sac1966Richard
Seven Times Seven1968Sam
A Dandy in Aspic1968Sobakevich
Beyond the Law (Al di lΓ  della legge)1968Preacher
Gates to Paradise1968The Monk
Once Upon a Time in the West1968Barman
H2S1969Luigi Pavese
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence1969Don Tosello
Zenabel1969Pancrazio
Boot Hill1969Mamy
The Naughty Cheerleader1970The Admiral
Crepa padrone, crepa tranquillo1970
Between Miracles1971Oreste Micheli
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight1971Baccala
We Are All in Temporary Liberty1971Lawyer Bartoli
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte1971Katanga
Caliber 91972Americano/Mikado
The Eroticist1972Cardinal Maravidi
Pulp1972Ben Dinuccio
Tutti fratelli nel West… per parte di padre1972
Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi1972Peppone
Treasure Island1972Billy Bones
Sting of the West'1972Stinky Manure
The Adventures of Pinocchio1972Mangiafuoco
Halleluja to Vera Cruz1973Sam 'Tonaca"' Thompson
Pete, Pearl & the Pole1973Sparks
Dirty Weekend1973General
The Black Hand (The Birth of the Mafia)1973Lieutenant Giuseppe Petrosino
My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure1973Il marchese Cavalcanti / Il cardinale di Ragusa
Crescete e moltiplicatevi1973
Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene1973
The Sensual Man1973Baron Castorini
Innocence and Desire1974Salvatore Niscemi
Di mamma non ce n'Γ¨ una sola1974Elia
La via dei babbuini1974
Cormack of the Mounties1975Doctor Higgins
Mark of Zorro1975Padre Donato
La novizia1975Don Nini
The Black Bird1975Gordon Immerman
San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne1976Don Gervasio
The Cassandra Crossing1976Max, the Train Conductor
New York, New York1977Tony Harwell
Matilda1978Pinky Schwab
Cyclone1978Taylor
The Rip-Off1978Sam
19411979Angelo Scioli
The Transformers: The Movie1986Kup (voice)
Bellifreschi1987Frank Santamaria
Wicked Stepmother1989Sam
Cookie1989Enzo Della Testa
Joey Takes a Cab1991Joey
The Last Good Time1994Howard Singer

Radio appearances

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YearProgramEpisode/source
1937Lux Radio TheatreMr. Deeds Goes to Town[12]
Lionel Stander
Stander in A Star Is Born (1937)
Born
Lionel Jay Stander

January 11, 1908
DiedNovember 30, 1994 (aged 86)
OccupationActorYears active1928–1994Spouses
  • Lucy Dietz
    (m. 1928; div. 1936)
    Alice Twitchell
    (m. 1938; div. 1942)
    Vehanne Monteagle
    (m. 1945; div. 1950)
    Diana Radbec
    (m. 1953; div. 1963)
    Maria Penn
    (m. 1963; div. 1967)
    Stephanie Van Hennick
    (m. 1971)
Children6