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Known for:	Once Upon a Time in the West, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, New York, New York
Birthday:	11 January 1908, The Bronx, New York, USA
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

Was blacklisted during the 1950s when he was exposed as a Communist Party member during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Marc Lawrence had testified that Stander told him that joining the Party would make him more attractive to women. In his own HUAC testimony, Stander denounced Lawrence as a psychopath and presented a letter that gave Lawrence's mental history and revealed that he had been hospitalized after a mental breakdown just prior to his HUAC testimony. Tried to recruit Melvyn Douglas, a prominent liberal, to the Communist Party. Stander's name is mentioned along with Sterling Hayden's in the movie Guilty by Suspicion, from a script by the blacklisted Communist Abraham Polonsky, when the protagonist is grilled by an inquisitorial committee bearing a resemblance to HUAC.

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