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Don Louis Agrati (June 8, 1944 June 27, 2012), better known as Don Grady, was an American actor, composer, and musician. He was well known both as one of Mickey Mouse's Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas on the long-running ABC/CBS television series ''My Three Sons''. His sister was also an actress, billed as Lani O'Grady. Their mother was a talent agent, known as Mary Grady. == Life and career == Grady was born Don Louis Agrati in San Diego, California, the son of Mary B. (née Castellino), a talent agent, and Lou Anthony Agrati, a sausage maker.〔(Don Grady Biography (1944-) )〕 He grew up in Lafayette, California, where he was a class president at Lafayette Elementary School;〔Janice De Jesus. "Ex-Mouseketeer slated for Lesher performance: 'Robbie' from 'My Three Sons' will perform with lyricist Marty Panzer to benefit a nonprofit group for foster children," ''Walnut Creek Journal'' (CA), May 12, 2005, page 3.〕 Stanley Junior High School, where he spent only a few months before being signed by Walt Disney and leaving the area;〔 and Burbank High School (pictured as Don Agrati).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1962 Burbank High School Yearbook, Burbank, CA )〕 His acting credits included several Western series, including John Payne's ''The Restless Gun'', ''Have Gun, Will Travel'', ''Buckskin'', ''Wagon Train'' and ''The Rifleman'', in which he played two roles in the second season.〔Previous information stating that Grady played a deaf-mute character in ''The Rifleman'', Season 3, Episode 13, is incorrect; that role was played by Brad Weston.〕 In December 1959, at the age of fifteen, Grady appeared in two different episodes of CBS's ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater'', having played opposite Joan Crawford and Dick Powell. In "Rebel Ranger", he is cast as Rob Faring, the young son of Crawford's character, Stella Faring, a Confederate widow who tries to reclaim her former home and Rob's birthplace from the Unionist owner, Cass Taggart, played by Scott Forbes. Character actor John Anderson is cast as Fisk Madden, who tries to drive Taggart off his land and gain Stella's favor. The episode ends with Stella and Rob heading into a nearby town with the understanding that Taggart would call upon Stella for possible courtship even though Crawford was fifteen years Forbes' senior. Stella Faring reveals that she had been living during the war in San Antonio, Texas, also the birthplace of Joan Crawford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Zane Grey Theatre'': "Rebel Ranger", December 3, 1959 )〕 In "Death in a Wood", Grady played a young Unionist, Zachary, who grows to understand that a Confederate soldier, Lawrence (played by Dick Powell), who is holding him prisoner, is a man of decency and strength of commitment. Simon Oakland appeared in this episode as a less sympathetic Confederate named Townsend.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Zane Grey Theatre'': "Death in a Wood", December 17, 1959 )〕 In 1960, he began a 12-year run as Robbie Douglas in the show ''My Three Sons'' starring Fred MacMurray. Initially airing on ABC, the show moved to CBS in 1965. During production of ''My Three Sons'', Grady both appeared with his own band The Greefs on the series, writing two original songs for the show and was the drummer for The Yellow Balloon, whose self-titled song became a minor hit in 1967. For a while during the run of the series, he attended Los Angeles City College. While on ''My Three Sons'' Grady also appeared in the NBC medical drama, ''The Eleventh Hour'' and in two episodes of the NBC education drama, ''Mr. Novak'', starring James Franciscus. Originally the frustrated middle brother on ''My Three Sons'', Grady's Robbie became the confident elder brother with two cast changes. The character of the original older brother, Mike, (played by (Tim Considine, who had earlier appeared with Grady in ''The New Adventures of Spin and Marty'') was gradually eased out of the series, and a new youngest son, Ernie (Barry Livingston), was adopted into the family. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Grady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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