On this day, 11 January 1908, blacklisted American actor Lionel Stander was born. Most famous in recent years for playing the chauffeur in 1980s hit TV show Hart-to-Hart, Stander was a popular Hollywood actor, and active in supporting strikes and anti-racist and anti-fascist campaigns and was blacklisted during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 50s.
Stander was one of the most defiant actors pulled in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who testified that he was not a member of the Communist Party because he was to the left of it.
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