Grover Dale

Grover Dale (born July 22, 1935) is an American retired actor, dancer, choreographer, theater director, and publisher.

Partnering up with another dancer (Mary Lou Steele) in an aggressive rendition of "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue", he secured multiple performance opportunities in local nightclubs before getting his first professional job with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera in 1953.

He appeared in the original cast of West Side Story as Snowboy, a member of the Jets gang.

Other stage credits include the role of Andrew in Greenwillow, in which he also understudied Anthony Perkins as Gideon Briggs; Noël Coward's Sail Away, where he had the juvenile lead role of architect Barnaby Slade; and in Half a Sixpence, where he played Pearce, one of a quartet of 19th century London shop apprentices around whom the show is structured.

[3] In 1973, he married actress and dancer Anita Morris, with whom he had a son, actor James Badge Dale (born 1978).