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Grand Hotel (TV series)

Gran Hotel (Grand Hotel) is a Spanish Antena 3 period mystery drama (2011–2013, 3 seasons, 39 episodes) set in 1905 at a hotel in fictional Cantaloa, starring Yon González and Amaia Salamanca, remade in Mexico, the US, Italy, and France.

Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) is Jean Renoir's 1937 French antiwar film, co-written with Charles Spaak, about French officers escaping a WWI German POW camp, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim; banned by Goebbels, Venice and New York prize winner.

Grand Jeté

Grand Jeté: 2022 German drama by Isabelle Stever, screenplay Anna Melikova from Anke Stelling's novel Fürsorge; ballet teacher Nadja reunites with son Mario; Berlinale Panorama premiere 2022.

Grand Masti (ग्रैंड मस्ती)

Grand Masti (ग्रैंड मस्ती), 2013 Hindi adult comedy by Indra Kumar, sequel to Masti (2004), starring Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani; first adult comedy to cross Rs 100 crore.

Grand Moff Tarkin

Grand Moff Tarkin (Wilhuff Tarkin) is the Star Wars Imperial governor, first Grand Moff and Death Star commander, played by Peter Cushing in A New Hope (1977) and digitally recreated via Guy Henry and ILM CGI in Rogue One (2016).

Grand Piano (film)

Grand Piano is a 2013 English-language thriller by Eugenio Mira, written by Damien Chazelle, starring Elijah Wood as pianist Tom Selznick, forced by sniper John Cusack to play flawlessly; Spanish-US 35mm co-production released 2013-2014.

Grand Prince (군주) (TV series)

Ruler: Master of the Mask (군주 - 가면의 주인) is a 2017 MBC Wednesday-Thursday historical drama starring Yoo Seung-ho, Kim So-hyun, and L, about a masked Joseon crown prince fighting the water-monopolizing Pyunsoo-hwe organization; it premiered at 11.6% Nielsen Korea.

Grand Prix (1966 film)

Grand Prix (1966) is John Frankenheimer's MGM sports drama about four fictional Formula One drivers in the 1966 season, starring James Garner, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint, and Toshiro Mifune. Shot at real 1966 F1 races in 70 mm, it won three Oscars and grossed about $20.8 million.

Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)

Grand Prix: the Cannes Film Festival's second most prestigious award after the Palme d'or, created in 1978 as the Grand Prix spécial du Jury and renamed Grand Prix in 1990; 2026 winner Minotaure by Andreï Zviaguintsev.

Grand Prix of Europe (film)

Grand Prix of Europe is a 2025 German-British animated family film by Waldemar Fast, produced by Michael Mack for Europa-Park's 50th anniversary, starring mascots Ed and Edda in a Grand Prix racing adventure.

Grand Theft Auto (film)

Grand Theft Auto (1977) is Ron Howard's feature directorial debut, a Roger Corman New World car-chase comedy starring Howard and Nancy Morgan as elopers chased from Los Angeles to Las Vegas; shot in 23 days on about $602,000.

Grand Theft Hamlet

Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) is a British documentary by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane about staging Hamlet inside Grand Theft Auto Online during COVID lockdown, shot entirely in-game; SXSW Grand Jury winner.

Grand Tour (film)

Grand Tour (壮游) is Miguel Gomes's 2024 Portuguese-led feature about Edward fleeing his fiancée Molly across 1917 colonial Asia; his sixth film, it won Best Director at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

Grand Tour: Disaster in Time

Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, also released as Timescape, is a 1992 David Twohy sci-fi film starring Jeff Daniels as an innkeeper whose guests are future tourists attending disasters, adapted from Kuttner and Moore's Vintage Season.

Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)

Grandad, full name Edward Kitchener "Ted" Trotter, is the Trotter family patriarch in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981-96), played by Lennard Pearce in the first 23 episodes and replaced by Uncle Albert after Pearce's 1984 death.

Grandma

Grandma is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Weitz, starring Lily Tomlin as a lesbian poet driving with her pregnant granddaughter.

Grandma's Boy (1922 film)

Grandma's Boy (1922), also released as The White Feather or He Who Hesitates, is a Harold Lloyd silent feature comedy directed by Fred Newmeyer for Hal Roach, his first five-reel feature, about a coward transformed by a lucky charm.

Grandma's Boy (2006 film)

Grandma's Boy (2006) is a Happy Madison stoner comedy directed by Nicholaus Goossen, starring Allen Covert as a 35-year-old game tester living with his grandmother; a critical flop that became a cult hit on DVD.

Grandmama (The Addams Family)

Grandmama is the Addams Family's resident witch-like grandmother, created by Charles Addams in 1938 New Yorker cartoons. She is Gomez's mother in the 1964 series and 2019 films, Morticia's mother (Frump) in the 1990s movies and Wednesday.

Grange Hill

Grange Hill: BBC children's school drama created by Phil Redmond, broadcast 1978–2008, set in a London comprehensive. Known for gritty realistic storylines such as Zammo's heroin addiction, three consecutive children's-series Baftas, and its 2002 move north under Mersey TV.

Granite State (Breaking Bad)

"Granite State" is the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad (season 5, episode 15, aired September 22, 2013), written and directed by Peter Gould, in which Walt hides in New Hampshire as Mr. Lambert before choosing to return as Heisenberg.

Granny Goodness

Granny Goodness is a DC Comics New God of Apokolips created by Jack Kirby, debuting in Mister Miracle #2 (1971). She runs the Orphanage, trains the Female Furies and Darkseid's armies, and once posed as Athena to recruit Amazons.

Grant Aleksander

Grant Aleksander (Grant Aleksander Kunkowski), American actor born 1959 or 1960 in Baltimore, best known as Phillip Spaulding on Guiding Light (1983–2009), also All My Children, Capitol, and As the World Turns director.

Grant Bowler

Grant Bowler (born 1968, Auckland) is a New Zealand-born actor and presenter raised in Australia, known for Blue Heelers, Outrageous Fortune, Ugly Betty, Lost, True Blood, Defiance, and hosting The Amazing Race Australia.

Grant Denyer

Grant Denyer (born 1977, Avoca Beach NSW) is an Australian TV and radio presenter and racing driver; host of Family Feud, Australia's Got Talent, and Deal or No Deal, and 2018 Gold Logie winner.

Grant Ellis

Grant Ellis is an American television personality and day trader, known for starring in The Bachelor season 29 in 2025, where he proposed to Juliana Pasquarosa.

Grant Goodeve

Grant Goodeve is an American actor, born in 1952, best known as David Bradford on the ABC series Eight Is Enough from 1977 to 1981.

Grant Gustin

Grant Gustin (born 1990), American actor and singer, star of Barry Allen on The CW's The Flash (2014-2023); formerly Sebastian Smythe on Glee and Baby John on the West Side Story tour; Broadway debut in Water for Elephants (2024).

Grant Heslov

Grant Heslov (born 1963), American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer; Oscar-winning producer of Argo; co-founder with George Clooney of Smokehouse Pictures; director of The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Grant Mitchell (EastEnders)

Grant Mitchell, full name Grant Antony Mitchell, is a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Ross Kemp from 1990 to 2026.