Fred Grandy

Fredrick Lawrence "Fred" Grandy is a former actor who became a member in 1986 of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa.

Grandy was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University in 1970 and is conversant in both French and Arabic. He played the ship's purser Burl "Gopher" Smith for nine years on the American television series The Love Boat. Earlier, he was a recurring character on the 1970s sitcom Maude, playing the boyfriend of Maude's daughter Carol.