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Early life and education. Ginnaven was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1937.He was the only child born to Pauline (née Boals), and Robert Addison Ginnaven, Sr.His mother worked for many years as a medical secretary in Downtown Memphis, and his father, who served in the United States Navy during World War II, worked for years as a deliveryman for Wonder Bread, also in Memphis.
Robert Ginnaven. My mother and father were actors. They first met on stage in a Shakespeare production at Front Street Theater in Dad’s hometown of Memphis, where he grew up around Elvis and his inner circle, just across the river from Mom’s farm in Mississippi County, where she learned to sing the blues and country music from notable ...
Mar 3, 2022 · Robert Addison Ginnaven Jr. was a movie and television actor who was also a leading advertising executive in Little Rock (Pulaski County). As an actor, he is best known for roles in the movies Steel Magnolias (1989) and White Lightning (1973), as well as appearing several times on the hit television series Dallas between 1981 and 1987.
Feb 18, 2008 · Ginnaven, also a former weather man for KATV-TV, Channel 7, was well-known among Little Rock’s advertising, marketing and public relations community. From 1966-67, he was a creative writer for the Faulkner & Associates Advertising Agency, and from 1967-72 was a principal and creative director of the Leavitt, Ginnaven and Dietz Agency.
Feb 17, 2008 · Married December 21, 1958, Bob and Ila had their first child, Robert Addison Ginnaven III, on October 29, 1959. Not long after their son was born, Bob and Ila moved from Memphis to Little Rock, Arkansas. On May 15, 1961, their second child and only daughter, Elizabeth Leigh Ginnaven, was born. Their last child, Christopher Crews Ginnaven, was ...
Robert Ginnaven was born on 1 January 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Steel Magnolias (1989), End of the Line (1987) and White Lightning (1973). He was married to Illa Ginnaven and Jeanne Tyler Ginnaven. He died on 17 February 2008 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
