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Biography
Infobox person| name = Grant Goodeve| image =| imagesize = 150px| caption =| birthname =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1952|7|6| birth_place = Middlebury, Connecticut , United States|U.S. | death_date =| death_place =| othername =| occupation = Actor/TV host| years_active = 1976–present| spouse =| domesticpartner =| website = Grant Goodeve (born July 6, 1952; Middlebury, Connecticut )imdb name|id=0328879|name=Grant Goodeve is an American actor and Presenter|television host . He is best known for playing the role of David, the oldest son, on Eight Is Enough , from 1977 to 1981. He sang the theme song for the show as well. More recent work includes Home & Garden Television and voice roles, such as the Engineer in the multiplayer video game Team Fortress 2 and Wolf O'Donnell in Star Fox: Assault .
Hollywood
Goodeve moved to Los Angeles, California , in 1975.wayback| http://tlem.netcentral.net/features/9604/goodeve_grant_lite.html|1996 Interview with The Lighthouse electronic Magazine His earliest role was on a fifth season episode of Emergency! . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0570597/ Above and Beyond... Nearly (1976), the IMDb entry for an episode of Emergency! After a February 1977 screen test, he signed up as a cast member of Eight Is Enough , taking over a role played in the show's pilot episode by Mark Hamill .
When Eight Is Enough ended in 1981, Goodeve appeared in guest roles in series such as The Love Boat , T.J. Hooker , Dynasty (TV series)|Dynasty , and Fantasy Island , among others. In the summer of 1984 Goodeve hosted " Solid Gold Hits ". In 1985-86, he played Michael James "Woody" Woodward in the soap opera One Life to Live . http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/castlist.php? section=past Past Characters on One Life to Live from SoapCentral He also co-starred in a 1984 made-for-TV movie, Pigs vs. Freaks . He reprised his Eight is Enough role in two reunion movies during the late 1980s and also appeared on several episodes of Murder, She Wrote . As the 1990s came to a close, he also made an appearance in The WB Television Network|The WB 's hit series 7th Heaven , as Capt. Jack Smith.
Pacific Northwest
Goodeve moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1989 with his wife and three children. Soon after moving there, he began appearing in the recurring role of Rick Pedersen, the ill-fated bush pilot in Northern Exposure . He also began contributing to KING-TV 's Evening Magazine and starting hosting that station's travel show Northwest Backroads in 1998. http://www.king5.com/nwbackroads/content.html? goodevebio Biography from the KING-TV website
More recently he began hosting " If Walls Could Talk " and Homes of our Heritage on Home & Garden Television . He has worked as a voice actor for several video games, including the role of List of characters in the Star Fox series#Wolf O'Donnell|Wolf O'Donnell in Star Fox: Assault , the Engineer in Team Fortress 2 , and various voices for F.E.A.R. (computer game)|F.E.A.R. . He also lent his singing voice to Bob Rivers 's Twisted Christmas series of holiday CDs.
He is active in his Presbyterian Church (USA)|Presbyterian church in Seattle, engaging part-time in an itinerant music ministry in the region. http://www.upc.org/page.asp? id=201#concert Concert supports three ministries with a common cause, from the website of the University Presbyterian Church
In 2006, Grant Goodeve appeared as George Bailey in Seattle's Taproot Theatre Company 's production of "It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play". He returned to the Taproot stage in 2008's production of "The Christmas Foundling" as Old Jake. He now lives in Washington state with his wife. He has a married daughter and a grandchild.
Filmography
TV series
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1976
Emergency!
Larry
Above and Beyond... Nearly (Season 5: Episode 20)
1976
Gibbsville
Danny
Saturday Night (Season 1: Episode 12)
1977-1981
Eight Is Enough
David Bradford
Series regular
1977, 1982
Insight (TV series)>Insight
Bill
I Want to Die Leave Me Alone, God
1978–1983
The Love Boat
Various
Series regular
1979, 1984
Fantasy Island
Bill Rawlings / Hunter Richter
Goose for the Gander/ The Stuntman (Season 3: Episode 2) Sing Melancholy Baby/ The Last Dogfight (Season 7: Episode 16)
1981
Aloha Paradise
Alex and Annie/ Blue Honeymoon/ Another Thing (Season 1: Episode 1)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328879/ Grant Goodeve at IMDB
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p507525|pure_url=yes Grant Goodeve at Allmusic
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