The son of an architect, David Groh entered Brown University as an engineering major, but gradually gravitated to the Fine Arts department. Following a few summers with the American Shakespeare Festival, Groh received a Fulbright scholarship to study acting in England. Returning to New York, he was at first limited to "classical" roles, beginning with his off-Broadway bow in The Importance of Being Earnest. He enrolled at the Actors Studio to get some "modern" grounding: evidently he succeeded, inasmuch as his subsequent Broadway credits included such contemporary efforts as The Hot L Baltimore and Chapter Two. During the 1960s and 1970s, he worked steadily in the soap-opera mills, appearing in a dual role on Dark Shadows and as D L Brock in General Hospital. Told by his friends that he might have a future in Hollywood-based cop shows, Groh moved to LA in 1974--where, within a matter of months, he was cast as Rhoda Morgenstern's fiancé Joe Gerard on the popular sitcom Rhoda. The Joe-Rhoda wedding, telecast October 28, 1974, earned the series its highest-ever ratings; but the chemistry was never really there, and in 1977 the Gerards were divorced (many viewers, assuming that Groh and Harper were really married, sent letters of condolence to the two actors). In April of 1978, Groh was back on the small screen in his own sitcom, Another Day (1978), which lasted but a month. David Groh thereafter concentrated on stage work, with occasional forays into films and such TV miniseries as The Dream Merchants and Tourist.. Groh died at age 68 in February 2008.
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Crash and Burn
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2007 | |||
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Acts of Betrayal
Actor |
1997 | |||
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Get Shorty
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Illegal in Blue
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Law & Order: Censure
Actor |
1994 | |||
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The Stoned Age
Actor |
1994 | |||
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| 1990 | ||||
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Menu for Murder
Actor |
1990 | |||
| 1990 | ||||
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The Return of Superfly
Actor |
1990 | |||
| 1989 | ||||
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Broken Vows
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Hot Shot
Actor |
1986 | |||
| 1985 | ||||
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King Lear
Performance |
1982 | |||
| 1982 | ||||
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This is Kate Bennett...
Actor |
1982 | |||
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Power
Actor |
1980 | |||
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The Dream Merchants
Actor |
1980 | |||
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Tourist
Actor |
1980 | |||
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The Child Stealer
Actor |
1979 | |||
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Murder at the Mardi Gras
Actor |
1978 | |||
| 1977 | ||||
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Rhoda: Season 03
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Two-Minute Warning
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Victory at Entebbe
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Rhoda: Season 02
Actor |
1975 | |||
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Rhoda: Season 01
Actor |
1974 | |||
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Irish Whiskey Rebellion
Actor |
1973 | |||
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The Mark of the Hawk
Actor |
1957 |
