Hollywood

Goodeve was born in Middlebury, Connecticut. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1975. His earliest role was on a fifth season episode of Emergency!. After a February 1977 screen test, he signed up as a cast member of Eight Is Enough, taking over a role played in the show's pilot episode by Mark Hamill.

When Eight Is Enough ended in 1981, Goodeve appeared in guest roles in series such as The Love Boat, T.J. Hooker, Dynasty, and Fantasy Island, among others. In the summer of 1984 Goodeve hosted "Solid Gold Hits". In 1985-86, he played Michael James "Woody" Woodward in the soap opera One Life to Live. He also co-starred in a 1984 TV movie Pigs vs. Freaks (a.k.a. Off Sides (Pigs vs. Freaks)).

He reprised his Eight is Enough role in two reunion movies during the late 1980s and also appeared on several episodes of Murder, She Wrote. As the 1990s came to a close, he also made an appearance in The WB's hit series 7th Heaven as Capt. Jack Smith. In 2000 Goodeve appeared as the host of Word Pictures production Proving the Bible Through Archeology.

Pacific Northwest

Goodeve moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1989 with his wife and three children. Soon after moving there, he began appearing in the recurring role of Rick Pedersen, an ill-fated bush pilot, in Northern Exposure. He also began contributing to KING-TV's Evening Magazine and starting hosting that station's travel show Northwest Backroads in 1998. As of 2014, Grant has hosted this show 16 years.

From 2000 to 2004 he hosted "If Walls Could Talk" and Homes of Our Heritage on Home & Garden Television. He has worked as a voice actor for several video games, including the role of Wolf O'Donnell in Star Fox: Assault, the Engineer in Team Fortress 2, and various voices for F.E.A.R.. He also lent his singing voice to Bob Rivers's Twisted Christmas series of holiday CDs.

He is active in his Presbyterian church in Seattle, engaging part-time in an itinerant music ministry in the region.

In 2006, Goodeve appeared as George Bailey in Seattle's Taproot Theatre Company's production of "It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play". He returned to the Taproot stage in 2008's production of "The Christmas Foundling" as Old Jake.

He used to live in Washington state with his wife. He has a married daughter and a grandchild. He has temporarily moved to Georgia to pursue acting again.

Goodeve also appears in the Amtrak Cascades safety video.

Filmography

TV series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Emergency!	Larry	Above and Beyond... Nearly (Season 5: Episode 20)
1976	Gibbsville	Danny	Saturday Night (Season 1: Episode 2)
1977−1981	Eight Is Enough	David Bradford	Series regular
1977, 1982	Insight	Bill	I Want to Die Leave Me Alone, God
1978-1983	The Love Boat	Various	Series regular
1979, 1984	Fantasy Island	Bill Rawlings / Hunter Richter	Goose for the Gander/The Stuntman (Season 3: Episode 2) Sing Melancholy Baby/The Last Dogfight (Season 7: Episode 16)
1981	Aloha Paradise		Alex and Annie/Blue Honeymoon/Another Thing (Season 1: Episode 1)
1982	Darkroom	Steve Lambert	Who's There? (Season 1: Episode 15)
1983	T.J. Hooker		Blue Murder (Season 3: Episode 10)
1983-1987	Dynasty	Chris Deegan	7 episodes
1984	Solid Gold Hits	Host
1984	Trapper John, M.D.	David Huber	A Little Knife Music (Season 5: Episode 14)
1984	Finder of Lost Loves	Stuart Scranton	A Gift (Season 1: Episode 10)
1984	Capitol	Jordy Clegg #2
1984-1988	Murder, She Wrote	Ben Skyler / Jack Kowalski / Larry Gaynes	3 episodes
1985	Rituals	Dr. Coleman
1985-1986	One Life to Live	James Woodward
1986	Hotel	Kevin Bromley	Enemies Within (Season 4: Episode 3)
1990-1992	Northern Exposure	Rick Pederson / Rick	10 episodes
1992	McGee and Me!	Brad 'Giff' Gifford	In the Nick of Time
1999-Date	Northwest Backroads	Host
2002	7th Heaven	Capt. Jack Smith	Monkey Business 1 (Season 7: Episode 1) Monkey Business Deux (Season 7: Episode 2)
2000-2004	If Walls Could Talk	Host

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Law of the Land	Soldier	Television film
1977	All the King's Horses	Jack Benson
1979	A Last Cry for Help	Jeff Burgess	Television film
1979	Hot Rod	Sonny Munn	Television film
1982	High Powder	Sgt. Garvey	Television film
1984	Pigs vs. Freaks	Neal Brockmeyer	Television film
1987	Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion	David Bradford	Television film
1988	Take Two	Barry Griffith/Frank Bentley
1988	License to Drive	Natalie's DMV Examiner	Theatrical film
1989	An Eight Is Enough Wedding	David Bradford	Television film
1990	She'll Take Romance	Doug	Television film
1996	Pandora's Clock	Don Moses	Television film
2000	Something to Sing About	Russ	Television film
2008	Proud American	Naval Doctor
2009	Crimes of the Past	Agent Kruch

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Star Fox: Assault	Wolf O'Donnell	Voice: English version
2005	F.E.A.R.	Harlan Wade/Additional Voices	Voice
2007	Team Fortress 2	Engineer	Voice
2009	F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin	Harlan Wade	Voice
2011	F.E.A.R. 3	Harlan Wade	Voice

Discography

• The Wonder of It All (1996)

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