16 Facts About Kirby Grant

Between 1949 and 1954, Grant starred in 10 Mounted-Police adventures, usually in the role of Corporal Rod Webb.

Kirby Grant was born in Butte in Silver Bow County in southwestern Montana.

Kirby Grant continued to study music and became a professional singer and bandleader.

Kirby Grant's contract was made out to "Robert Stanton," and Kirby Grant used the pseudonym in his earliest films before adopting his first and middle names professionally.

In 1943, Kirby Grant signed with Universal Pictures, where he played romantic leads in B musicals, and in Abbott and Costello and Olsen and Johnson comedies.

Kirby Grant starred in the series Sky King during its entire run, filming 72 episodes in all.

Kirby Grant played Arizona rancher-pilot Schuyler "Sky" King, who fought bad guys and rescued people with his airplane.

Kirby Grant did little acting after Sky King ended, although he and Gloria Winters were in demand for personal appearances at fairs and aviation events.

Kirby Grant traveled with the Carson and Barnes Circus from 1965 to 1967.

Sky King continued to play in reruns from 1959 to 1966, but Kirby Grant received no residuals.

Kirby Grant had plans to resurrect the Sky King series with the Flying Crown Ranch becoming a home for such kids, and publicizing their stories, but it never materialized.

Three vehicles were traveling east bound in single file, Kirby Grant was in the third vehicle.

Kirby Grant pulled out of line to pass both vehicles in front of him, when the middle vehicle pulled out to pass at the same time.

Kirby Grant was thrown out of his car and into the water.

That morning, Kirby Grant was en route from his condominium in Winter Springs to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger at Cape Canaveral.

Kirby Grant was to have been honored by the astronauts for encouraging aviation and space flight.