1. Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier was born on July 14,1932 and is an American former football player, bodyguard, actor, singer, Protestant minister, and motivational speaker.
34 Facts About Rosey Grier
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Rosey Grier played professionally as a defensive tackle in the National Football League.
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Rosey Grier played in the Pro Bowl twice, was select All-Pro three times, and won the 1956 NFL championship with the Giants.
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Rosey Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot.
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Rosey Grier hosted his own Los Angeles television show and made approximately 70 guest appearances on various shows during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Rosey Grier founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves inner city youth.
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Rosey Grier was born on July 14,1932, in Cuthbert, Georgia, one of twelve children.
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Rosey Grier played football at Abraham Clark High School in Roselle, New Jersey, graduating in 1951.
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Rosey Grier attended Penn State University, where he was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
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Rosey Grier played football for Penn State, and was All-American.
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Rosey Grier's career ended in 1967 due to a torn Achilles tendon.
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Rosey Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy, the Senator's wife, who was then expecting a child, the night that Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968.
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In December 1968, Rosey Grier accompanied Bob Hope on "Operation Holly," Hope's 1968 USO tour, Rosey Grier performed alongside headliner Ann-Margret and others at the US bases at Long Binh, Cam Ranh Bay, Da Nang, Chu Lai, and Phu Cat, as well as aboard the carrier USS Hancock and the battleship USS New Jersey, and at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base and U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand, along with stops in South Korea and Guam.
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Rosey Grier has appeared in a number of films and television shows.
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Rosey Grier became a regular cast member, starting in 1969, on the series Daniel Boone, Make Room for Granddaddy, and The White Shadow.
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Rosey Grier appeared as a panelist on the television game show Match Game 74.
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Rosey Grier appeared in two episodes of Kojak, one in the third season and one in the fourth season, as a bounty hunter named Salathiel Harms.
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Rosey Grier appeared on a 1977 episode of CHiPs as a distraught motorist who, during a routine traffic stop, proceeds to destroy his car in frustration by pulling it apart piece by piece.
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Rosey Grier guest-voiced a 1999 episode of The Simpsons titled "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday".
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Rosey Grier's recording of a tribute to Robert Kennedy, "People Make the World", was his only chart single, peaking at No 128 in 1968.
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Rosey Grier spent his early life campaigning for Democrats before becoming a Republican in the early 80s.
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Rosey Grier appeared in the Democratic fundraiser "America Goes Public" on September 15,1973 and regularly attended the Democratic National Convention, including the conventions at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago on August 28,1968 and at Madison Square Garden in New York City on August 11,1980.
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Rosey Grier was a featured speaker at the 1984 Republican National Convention; during its evening session on August 20,1984, he endorsed President Ronald Reagan for re-election.
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In 1994, Grier visited O J Simpson in jail, who allegedly yelled out a confession to the crime.
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On January 5,2017, Rosey Grier announced his intention to run for governor of California as a Republican in the 2018 California gubernatorial election.
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Rosey Grier is a cofounder of American Neighborhood Enterprises, an organization that works to help disadvantaged city dwellers buy homes and receive vocational training.
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Rosey Grier was ordained a Protestant minister in 1983, and the next year he founded his nonprofit resource center for inner-city teens, developing spiritual and educational programs for disadvantaged youths.
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Rosey Grier is on the Milken Family Foundation board of trustees and serves as its program administrator of community affairs.
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Rosey Grier has been honored by Penn State as recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1974, and the Alumni Fellow Award in 1991.
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Rosey Grier was named to the NCAA's "List of the 100 Most Influential Student-Athletes" published to commemorate the NCAA's 100th anniversary.
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Rosey Grier has a daughter, Sherryl Brown-Tubbs, from an early relationship.
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Rosey Grier married Wichita school teacher, Cydnee Seyler, on April 30,2013.
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Rosey Grier was well known in the 1970s for his hobbies of needlepoint and macrame.
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Rosey Grier authored Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men in 1973.