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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.

Grant Sputore

Grant Sputore is an Australian director from Perth, founder of The Penguin Empire, whose feature debut I Am Mother (2019) premiered at Sundance and released on Netflix; he directs Godzilla x Kong: Supernova (2027).

Grant Tinker

Grant Tinker (1925 or 1926–2016), American television executive and producer; co-founder of MTM Enterprises with Mary Tyler Moore and NBC chairman-CEO 1981–1986, reviving the network with Cheers, Hill Street Blues, and The Cosby Show.

Grant Wilson

Grant Steven Wilson (born 1974) is an American paranormal investigator who co-founded TAPS with Jason Hawes and led Ghost Hunters (2004–2016, A&E revival 2019–2020).

Grantchester (TV series)

Grantchester is a British ITV period crime drama (2014–2026), adapted by Daisy Coulam from James Runcie's The Grantchester Mysteries. Set in 1950s Cambridgeshire, it pairs DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green) with three vicar sleuths, ending with an 11th season in June 2026.

Grantham Coleman

Grantham Coleman (born 1990, Missouri City, Texas) is an American Juilliard-trained actor, not the musician Coleman or Leslie Grantham. Known for Hamlet at The Old Globe, MLK in Broadway's The Great Society, Bobby Seale in Seberg, and lead role in Emperor of Ocean Park (2024).

Graphic violence

Graphic violence is the vivid, explicit depiction of violent acts and injuries in film, television, games, and other media. Also called gore, it is a content descriptor in rating systems like ESRB, and its behavioral effects remain debated, with corrected meta-analytic effect sizes near r = .08.

Grass (1925 film)

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) is a silent American documentary by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison following the Bakhtiari tribe's 48-day migration across Iran's Karun River and Zardeh Kuh.

Grass (풀잎들) (2018 film)

Grass (풀잎들, Pul-ip-deul) is a 2018 black-and-white South Korean drama by Hong Sang-soo, 66 minutes, starring Kim Min-hee as a café observer; premiered at Berlin Forum, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a 1925 American silent documentary in which Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack filmed the Bakhtiari tribe's migration.

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Grauman's Chinese Theatre, known as Mann's Chinese Theater from 1973 to 2001 and since 2013 the TCL Chinese Theatre, is a historic movie palace on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Grave Encounters

Grave Encounters (2011) is a Canadian-American found-footage horror film, the debut of the Vicious Brothers, about a ghost-hunting TV crew trapped in a haunted psychiatric hospital; it spawned a 2012 sequel and a reboot in development.

Grave Encounters 2

Grave Encounters 2 (2012), also called GE2, is a Canadian found-footage horror sequel directed by John Poliquin and written by the Vicious Brothers, in which film student Alex Wright investigates the real Collingwood asylum from the first Grave Encounters film.

Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Studio Ghibli animated war drama directed by Isao Takahata, adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka's Naoki Prize-winning 1967 story about orphaned siblings Seita and Setsuko in 1945 Kobe.

Grave Robbing for Morons

Grave Robbing for Morons is a 1990 American amateur shockumentary, about 27 minutes long, credited to director Christopher Bouchie and starring an unidentified man called Anthony.

Grave Torture

Grave Torture (Siksa Kubur) is a 2024 Indonesian psychological horror film by Joko Anwar, expanded from his 2012 short, about Sita entering a sinner's grave to disprove grave torture; it sold nearly 4 million tickets in Indonesia.

Graveyard Carz

Graveyard Carz is an American reality TV series, also called a Mopar restoration show, following Mark Worman's Springfield, Oregon shop restoring Chrysler muscle cars; it premiered in 2012 on Velocity and became MotorTrend's longest-running linear series.

Graveyard Shift (1990 film)

Graveyard Shift (1990 film), also Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, is a horror movie directed by Ralph S. Singleton, based on King's Night Shift short story, about a mill crew battling rats and a mutant bat-rat creature; released October 26, 1990 by Paramount, starring David Andrews and Brad Dourif.

Graviton (comics)

Graviton (comics) is a Marvel supervillain, Franklin Hall, who first appeared in 1977. He is known for his immense power to mentally manipulate gravity, lifting Manhattan Island.