1. David Lawrence Groh was an American actor best known for his portrayal of Joe Gerard in the 1970s television series Rhoda, opposite Valerie Harper.
11 Facts About David Groh
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David Groh attended Brooklyn Technical High School, then enrolled at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he graduated with a degree in English literature.
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David Groh performed with the American Shakespeare Theatre, then went to Great Britain to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on a Fulbright scholarship, and served in the United States Army from 1963 to 1964.
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David Groh made his television debut in silent walk-on parts in two episodes of the Gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows on ABC in 1968, but did not garner fame until Rhoda.
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David Groh co-starred in the sitcom Rhoda in which he played Joe Gerard, a New York City building demolition company owner who met and married Rhoda Morgenstern, the best friend of Mary Richards from CBS's The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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David Groh was dropped to recurring status during season three, and he made only a few guest appearances that season before being written out of the show entirely.
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David Groh starred in his own series, opposite Joan Hackett, in the short-lived Another Day, in the spring of 1978 and went on to make his Broadway theatre debut in Neil Simon's Chapter Two.
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The New York Times drama critic Frank Rich found David Groh "completely convincing as the brash gold-chain-and-bikini-clad Lothario".
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David Groh was a serious collector of antique furniture and folk art, much of which he kept in a second home in Connecticut.
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David Groh mainly resided in Santa Monica, California, where he lived with his third wife, Kristin, and his son Spencer.
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David Groh died of kidney cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, on February 12,2008, at the age of 68.