From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Don Grady
Don Grady
Don Agrati (born June 8, 1944, in San Diego, California), Children Of Saint Monica", which reached #132 national-
Grady,
better known as Don Grady is an American composer, ly. For a while during the run of the series, he attended
musician and actor. He is remembered both as one of Los Angeles City College.[2]
Mickey Mouse’s original Mouseketeers, and as Robbie
Douglas, from My Three Sons. His sister was also an ac- After My Three Sons
tress, billed as Lani O’Grady. Their mother was a talent After My Three Sons ended in 1972, Grady pursued a musi-
agent, known as Mary Grady. cal career. His works include music for the Blake Edwards
comedy film Switch, the theme song for The Phil Donahue
Life and career Show[1] and for EFX, a Las Vegas multimedia stage show
which starred Michael Crawford, David Cassidy, Tommy
Tune and Rick Springfield.
In the fall of 2008, Grady released Boomer: JazRokPop,
a collection of songs written for and about the baby
boomer generation. Boomer is his first original album as
an artist since Homegrown was released by Elektra
Records in 1973.
Grady married his wife Ginny in 1985, having met her
at Disneyland.[1] The couple have two children, Joey and
Tessa.
Notes
[1] ^ Janice De Jesus. "Ex-Mouseketeer slated for
Grady with William Demarest in My Three Sons, 1969. Lesher performance: ’Robbie’ from ’My Three Sons’
will perform with lyricist Marty Panzer to benefit a
Grady grew up in Lafayette, California, and attended nonprofit group for foster children," Walnut Creek
Lafayette Elementary School (where he served as school Journal (CA), May 12, 2005, page 3.
president[1]) and Stanley Junior High, where he spent on- [2] Kaufman, Dave (1968) (mass market paperback). TV
ly a few months before being signed by Disney and leav- 69: Who’s Who, What’s What in the New TV Season. New
ing the area.[1] York: Signet. p. 130.
His acting credits include several Western series, in-
cluding John Payne’s The Restless Gun, Dick Powell’s Zane
Grey Theater, Wagon Train and The Rifleman as well as the
External links
NBC medical drama, The Eleventh Hour. Originally the • Don Grady official site
frustrated middle brother on My Three Sons, he became • Don Grady at the Internet Movie Database
the confident elder brother with the departure of Mike Persondata
(Tim Considine, who had earlier appeared with Grady in Name Grady, Don
The New Adventures of Spin and Marty), and the adoption
Alternative names
of Ernie (Barry Livingston), who became the new "third
son." Short description
During production of My Three Sons, Grady both ap- Date of birth June 8, 1944
peared with his own band The Greefs on the series, and
Place of birth
was the drummer for The Yellow Balloon, whose self-ti-
tled song became a minor hit during 1967. Record pro- Date of death
ducer Laramy Smith recorded Grady’s performance of Place of death
"Just Happens To Be Fun", which appeared on Canter-
bury Records. Also on Canterbury, he fronted the
Windupwatchband on the sunshine pop single, "The
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• American television actors
• American composers
• American musicians
• 1944 births
• Living people
• Mouseketeers
• People from San Diego, California
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