12 Facts About Grant Goodeve

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Grant Goodeve was born on July 6,1952 and is an American actor and television host.

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Grant Goodeve is best known for his role as David Bradford, the eldest son on ABC television's Eight Is Enough from 1977 to 1981; he sang the theme song for the show, as well.

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When Eight Is Enough ended in 1981, Goodeve appeared in guest roles in series such as The Love Boat, T J Hooker, Dynasty, and Fantasy Island, among others.

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Grant Goodeve made a number of appearances as a celebrity guest contestant on the Pyramid game shows in the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Grant Goodeve reprised his Eight Is Enough role in two reunion movies during the late 1980s, and appeared in several episodes of Murder, She Wrote.

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In 2000, Grant Goodeve appeared as the host of Word Pictures' production Proving the Bible through Archeology.

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Grant Goodeve moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1989 with his wife and three children.

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Grant Goodeve began contributing to KING-TV's Evening Magazine, and began hosting that station's travel show Northwest Backroads in 1998.

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Grant Goodeve lent his singing voice to Bob Rivers' Twisted Christmas series of holiday CDs.

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Grant Goodeve is active in his Presbyterian church in Seattle, engaging part-time in an itinerant music ministry in the region.

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In 2006, Grant Goodeve appeared as George Bailey in Seattle's Taproot Theatre Company's production of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

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Grant Goodeve returned to the Taproot stage in 2008's production of The Christmas Foundling as Old Jake.