Graham Jarvis

Graham Jarvis (August 25, 1930 – April 16, 2003) was a Canadian character actor in US films and TV from the 1960s.

Born in Toronto, Jarvis attended Williams College before moving to New York to pursue a career in theater. Jarvis appeared on such television programs as Naked City, Route 66, N.Y.P.D., All in the Family, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, M*A*S*H, Starsky and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey, Fame, Married... with Children, The X Files, ER, and Six Feet Under. He also played character roles in many films. His last major part was as "Charles Jackson", father of Annie Jackson Camden in the Warner Brothers TV drama 7th Heaven, a role that he filled until his death of multiple myeloma at the age of seventy-two. Beverly Garland (1926-2008) co-starred with Jarvis as Annie's stepmother, Ginger Jackson.

Jarvis acted in the role of Elliot Sinclair in the Journeyman Project trio of video games and was also the narrator in the first American production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, playing alongside Meat Loaf and Tim Curry.

He lived in Los Angeles with his wife Joanna Rader, and two sons Alex and Matt. Jarvis was also the uncle of former AIMR President Peter Jarvis. In 2003, he died from multiple myeloma. His interment was located at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.

External links

• Graham Jarvis at the Internet Movie Database

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