Edward Grover

Edward Grover was an American actor whose career included film, television and stage work. Born in Huntington Park, California in 1932, he trained at the American Shakespeare Festival Academy and later studied theater at Juilliard before beginning to act in 1959. He performed with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter Company and at Antioch College Shakespeare Festival. On television, he became known as Lieutenant Hal Brubaker, the supervisor of Tony Baretta on the detective series Baretta, and he made guest appearances on shows such as Hill Street Blues, Quincy, M.E., Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and The A-Team. In film he played Finchley in Who? (1974) and Inspector Lombardo in Serpico (1973), and appeared in Death Wish (1974) and Report to the Commissioner (1975). He also provided voice-overs for commercials, including the 1984 Apple Macintosh introduction, and retired from acting in 2008. He died in 2016.