Lionel Stander reached veteran standing the slow way, as an American actor with a filmography that reaches back further than most viewers remember. The trail of credits goes back as far as 1931. 115 appearances between the two screens is the plain arithmetic of it. 'Once Upon a Time in the West' sits at the front of the filmography, where he plays Innkeeper. '1941' belongs on any short list of his work. Read more