Bernard Grant (Actor)

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(10-10-1920 - 06-30-2004) Age 84

Bernard Grant had long term roles on TV Guiding Light and One Life to Live.

 

He appeared in the following 46 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
05/27/1981 1203 Little Richard A young man discovers how skewed the judicial system is when he is released from prison. After serving a sentence for forgery, his desire to turn a new leaf is resolute but the corruption rampant in his city makes it hard for him to do so.
06/05/1981 1207 Matched Pair for Murder For the sake of her lover, a young woman makes an appeal to a judge to rule for an acquittal on his case, when the man gets away with murder, he begins to regret being swayed by emotions.
06/08/1981 1208 Stranded After an unexpected accident, a duo of scientists is forced to make an emergency landing on a strange planet in a nearby solar system. The planet's inhabitants soon visit them.
07/01/1981 1215 The Fourth Bullet The memoirs of renowned composer, Hector Bellios tells narrates a strange tale of mischief, murder and mayhem involving a past lover, her mother- and the mystery of the four bullets that eventually claimed their lives.
07/10/1981 1219 A Man of Honor On the verge of finally attaining his life-long dream, a college professor is struck by an unusual malady and melancholia before receiving his book award. He must set out to discover the secrets he has hidden in his subconscious.
07/17/1981 1222 Pie in the Sky After picking up a strange gift as a result of a tobacco pipe mix-up, a young man gains the ability to foresee the future. In an attempt to use it in a get-rich-quick scheme, he accidentally transports himself and his wife to an alternate dimension.
07/31/1981 1228 A Penny for Your Thoughts A local reporter encounters a woman with a paranoid belief that her spouse is out to get her. When she digs deeper, the journalist discovers a strange tale involving a manipulative and mythical temptress.
08/31/1981 1238 The Musgrave Ritual The legendary Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are thrown in the midst of a strange cult when they investigate the disappearance of two members of the Musgrave family.
09/28/1981 1246 The Liar Revenge is handed to him on a silver platter when a young artist is commissioned to paint the portrait of the deceitful scoundrel who stole his beloved and married her.
10/16/1981 1251 J'Accuse After being accused of treason, a French officer is exiled to Devil 's Island despite his professed innocence. An ambitious reporter exposes the story and spearheads a national campaign to liberate him.
10/26/1981 1254 Daddy's Girls A sister starts doubting the story of her sibling and turns to the police in order to solve the mysterious death of her sister's editor right after she was fired
12/14/1981 1268 Harry's Taxi and the 'T' Machine In order to resuscitate his failing career, a scientist invents a transmigration machine and experiments on live creatures. A freak accident causes his wife to become another casualty of the machine.
12/23/1981 1270 The Head of a Pin A silicon chip engineer discovers the design flaw that caused a commuter plane to explode. He takes his findings to the government despite the possible repercussions to their business. He turns up dead a few days later and his wife suspects that he was murdered by his business partner- who also happens to be her brother!
01/11/1982 1275 Les Miserables (1 of 5) - The Thief and the Bishop In order to feed his family, Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread and serves a 19-year prison sentence for his crime. After gaining his freedom, he falls into despair once he realizes that no one will have anything to do a convict like him. His fate changes when he encounters a Bishop who guides him on the right path.
01/12/1982 1276 Les Miserables (2 of 5) - The Lawless and the Law Years go by and Jean Valjean is now the proud owner of a factory. However, Inspector Javert is convinced that Valjean has attained his wealth illegitimately and continues to hound him. He is faced with a moral dilemma at the end of the episode, but undertakes to uphold his promise to a dying woman and search for her missing daughter.
01/13/1982 1277 Les Miserables (3 of 5) - No Escape In order to escape the obsessed Javert, Valjean flees to France and there stumbles across the missing Collette in a monastery. He tells her the secret of her past.
01/14/1982 1278 Les Miserables (4 of 5) - Fear, Love, and Death The main cast find themselves in the middle of the French Revolution. Collette finds love while the Inspector faces an impossible set of circumstances.
01/15/1982 1279 Les Miserables (5 of 5) - The Final Chapter Seeking to escape the chaos of the revolution, Valjean and his companions take refuge in the sewers of Paris and discover and unlikely ally. The cesspool of France becomes the stage for the destined meeting of Valjean and Inspector Javert.
01/21/1982 1281 Gate 27 After being deserted by his wife, a former investigator finds relief at the bottom of a liquor bottle. His life takes a turn for the better when he meets a young woman on the commuter train who reminds him of his worth. When she suddenly disappears, he begins to have visions that she is desperately calling for help and relies on his old abilities to find her.
03/01/1982 1296 The Blue Sedan A young female cop undertakes to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a sleazy private investigator. Her only clue is a blue sedan spotted at the scene of the crime.
03/05/1982 1298 Death at a Distance In order to help a paranoid patient convinced that he will die by the black arts, a missionary doctor seeks the counsel of a prominent medical practitioner working in the African Jungle only to find that he is terrified of voodoo himself.
03/22/1982 1305 The Tool Shed In order to do a feature on him, a London Time's reporter travels to the countryside home of an author renowned for his occult-themed works. While there, he discovers the strange sketches in the tool shed and meets the farm's eccentric inhabitants.
04/02/1982 1310 The Naval Treaty The case of a mysterious document serves to reunite the esteemed Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson twenty years after their retirement.
04/16/1982 1316 Something to Live For To escape his failing business, an immigrant show owner attempts to commit suicide but is hindered by the sudden appearance of a retired police officer. After recounting his woes, the ex-cop assures the old man that he will put a stop to the local mob's heinous crimes.
04/26/1982 1320 The Hanging Sheriff A softhearted sheriff has difficulty imposing the death sentence. When his meddlesome wife forces his hand, he is compelled to aid in the prisoner's flight.
04/30/1982 1322 The Last Duel A subordinate caught playing cards while on guard duty is challenged to a duel by his Lieutenant. Between the two shots, a series of events occur.
05/12/1982 1327 The Wound That Would Not Heal After being charged with the murder of his mistress, a man adamantly denies his guilt. However, when the ghost of his dead lover begins to haunt his dreams, he becomes disoriented and begins to believe that the accusation must be true.
05/26/1982 1333 Why Is This Lady Smiling? In this fictional tale set in the year 1498, Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the image of a silk merchant's wife. Playfully altering the woman's natural smile, he came up with a masterpiece that will eventually become an integral part of art history, the Mona Lisa.
06/02/1982 1336 Two Times Dead Based on a true story of the man who was framed for his own murder as told by a media reporter.
06/18/1982 1340 The Fifth Man In order to discover moles and communist spies in the aviation industry, a British journalist works as a secret agent to unmask the traitors.
06/28/1982 1344 Escape to Prison Believing that her friends are part of a huge conspiracy, an executive turns to a local investigator to help her prove that her supposedly deceased husband is alive and well.
07/02/1982 1346 Bring Back My Body A psychologist attempts to balance out a woman with split personalities in order to save her from the vindictive rage of one of her personas.
07/07/1982 1348 Code Word, Caprice In order to infiltrate a hijacking operation, the police enlist the aid of a conscientious and hard-working trucker.
07/16/1982 1352 The Great Catherine In order to solidify Russia's place among the world's super powers, a Czarina of German descent works to modernize her country. She falls in love with a war hero despite the fact that he is just a common farmer's son.
07/29/1982 1356 Mind Over Mind A young bank teller is adamant about her innocence when asked about her part in a bank hold-up. Despite statements by a nearby teller implicating her in the crime, she insists that she did not cooperate with the thief in any way.
08/05/1982 1358 Murder By Decree A tragic tale about the life and death of the most infamous of Henry VIII's queens, the unfortunate Anne Boleyn.
08/24/1982 1363 Funeral Without a Corpse An ambitious D.A. succumbs to blackmail in order to safeguard his political aspirations when threatened with the exposure of a terrible secret from his past.
09/14/1982 1369 The Forbidden House After purchasing a new home, the young owners encounter an unexpected visitor in the form of an old circus performer. They offer him a place to stay and in exchange, they soon learn the secret surrounding their new house.
09/20/1982 1371 The Way Station When they accidentally overhear their father talking to men they know have already passed away, a pair of twins learn that there is more to their gravedigger father than they realize.
09/29/1982 1375 The Million Dollar Leg In order to recruit a kicker for a professional team, a college football coach must travel behind the Iron Curtain as a favor to an old teammate.
10/13/1982 1381 Fly Swatter Tired of their lives as petty thieves, a husband and wife team attempts to get regular jobs. Their search lands them in the employ of an eccentric couple that has a strange love for flies!
10/20/1982 1384 Last Days of a Dictator A tragic tale of the rise and fall of one of history's greatest dictators during World War II, Benito Mussolini.
10/27/1982 1387 The Voice That Wouldn't Die Upon hearing a keening and plaintive wail emanating from the ruins of a ruined house at their new manor grounds, a young woman asks her father, a doctor and the local priest to uncover the mystery.
11/09/1982 1391 Portrait of the Past An unusual coat of arms on an heirloom piece leads a curious jeweler into discovering his uncle's involvement with an 18-year old girl and the mystery surrounding her unexplained death.
11/18/1982 1394 Diamond Dotty After killing the miscreants who murdered her husband in an attempt to hijack their diamond mine, a distraught woman confesses to the crime upon her arrival in a western frontier town.
12/02/1982 1398 The Last Plan A pair of young quarrelsome and paranoid neighbors enlists the aid of an eccentric old woman to act as mediator. She hires a professional hit man to watch over them and informs them that if one kills the other, they will both die.

2 Responses to Grant Bernard

He performed in 46 episodes first appearing in May of 1981 (1203) and going through to the second to last episode. That means he performed in nearly a quarter of the last 200 episodes.Most actors of many episodes span a time frame of many years. Grant got all his in in a short amount of time.

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Yes, Grant, once he did 5 episodes in 1 week (Les Miserables), but then he had the whole month of February off. Usually he did 1 a week, sometimes only 1 in 2 weeks. Not that unusual for voice actors who likely had the script the night before to study, and then they recorded the bit the next morning, usually in a handful of takes in case somebody flubbed a line. But I watched a film of some actors doing a "live' radio broadcast sometime in the 1940's and they were extremely professional, doing it flawlessly in one take.

D.C.

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