Dean Stockwell
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Robert Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an American actor of film and television with a career spanning more than 70 years.
As a child actor under Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's contract, he first caught the public's notice in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and Kim (1950).
He appeared in Compulsion's 1957 Broadway and 1959 film adaptations, and in 1962, Stockwell played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day's Journey into Night.
He appeared in supporting roles in films including Paris, Texas (1984), To Live and Die in Los Angeles (1985), and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987).
He has been praised for his appearance in Married to the Mob (1988), for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor by the Academy Awards.
He appeared in The Player (1992) and Air Force One (1997). In the Sci Fi Channel revival of Battlestar Galactica (1989–2009), Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci appears in Quantum Leap (1989–1993) and Brother Cavil.
Stockwell appeared at numerous science fiction conventions following his appearances on Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica.
1936-1950: An early life and work history began.
Stockwell was born in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles' North Hollywood and grew up between there and New York City. He was Elizabeth "Betty" Stockwell, a vaudeville actress, and Harry Stockwell, an actor and lyric baritone singer. His father appeared in Carousel and Oklahoma City and appeared in Prince Charming's film Snow White. Guy Stockwell, a television and film actor, was his elder brother. Nina Olivette, his stepmother, was an actor, comedian, singer, and toe dancer in burlesque and theater in New York and North America. His mother's family was Italian.
In Oklahoma, Stockwell's father appeared on Broadway! Innocent Voyage by Paul Osborne, when he heard about a play, he was looking for child actors. Both boys were successful, and Stockwell's mother brought their two sons down for audition. Stockwell's role was small, and the play had only been in play for a brief period, but it did result in a MGM deal.
He appeared in a small role in The Valley of Decision (1945), a common melodrama. Producer Joe Pasternak brought him a bigger part in Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, where he appeared as Kathryn Grayson's nephew.
The film was well-known, and MGM gave him a leading role in The Green Years (1946) as Robert Shannon, an Irish Catholic orphanage growing up in a Scottish Presbyterian household. It was a huge hit. During the chase sequence between Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945), he made a brief appearance in the MGM school classroom.
Peggy Ann Garner, the twentieth century Fox borrowed him for Home Sweet Homicide (1946), where he was billed fourth. Wallace Beery appeared in The Mighty McGurk (1947) at MGM, a reimaginement of The Champ (1931), which Beery had produced with Jackie Cooper before. In the short film "A Really Important Person (1947), he was also lead.
He appeared in The Arnelo Affair (1947) (as Janet Leigh's brother) and Song of the Thin Man (1947), the son of William Powell and Myrna Loy's character. "I have such positive feelings about both of them," he later said, "they were all wonderful people, especially Myrna Loy." Asta, the adorable little dog. That little dog was my favorite."
However, Stockwell found being a child actor difficult, claiming, "I didn't like acting specifically when I was young." I was expecting a lot of work. I enjoyed a few films, but they were comedies, they weren't important films, and I was never identified as a serious kid. "I played those roles in those situations, but I didn't care for them much." He found that this work meant he didn't have any acquaintances except his brother, and that he was always working, with only one holiday in nine years. It was "a painful way to raise a child," he said, though neither my parents nor I knew it at the time.
In Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Fox borrowed Gregory Peck's son, a film that Stockwell "didn't like doing at all" because it was so serious. In other words, if I were going to see another movie, my mother would always bring that news to me, and the first thing I would always ask was, 'Is there a crying scene in the film?' And there was certainly once "someone" was missing.
In Deep Waters (1948), he was an orphaned runaway longing to go to sea. He was then loaned by RKO Pictures to appear in The Boy with Green Hair (1948), a famous failure in the Dore Schary period. "I did feel that I was part of something that meant a lot to me," Stockwell said during the process.
In Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), he appeared in Fox as Lionel Barrymore's grandson and Richard Widmark's protégé, before helping Margaret O'Brien at MGM in The Secret Garden (1949), a box office disappointment. Later, Stockwell referred to the picture as "More crying scenes."And temper tantrums!
But I loved working with Margaret; she was a natural little actress."He was billed third in MGM's famous Stars in My Crown (1950), which he did not enjoy doing, after Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew.
Stockwell was top billed in The Happy Years, which cost the studio a significant amount of money, but then played a key commercial role in Kim (1950) alongside Errol Flynn and Paul Lukas, a big commercial success. Flynn performed a prank on him during filming, but instead gave him a bowl of camel dung.
Stockwell had a leading role alongside Joel McCrea in a Western at Universal, Cattle Drive, 1951.
Stockwell graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles and spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley, before dropping out. "I was sad and couldn't get along with others," he later said. He immersed himself in music at UC Berkeley and created several small compositions.
In 1956, he took a few years off and restarted his acting career as an adult. In "The Ruth Owens Story," he appeared on shows including Front Row Center, Matinee Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, The United States Steel Hour, Climax!, Men of Annapolis, Cimarron City, General Electric Theater, and Wagon Train (in 1957 as "Jimmy Drew," his brother to Shelley Winters. S1E3). He was instrumental in a Western, Gun for a Coward (1957) and the lead actor in a low-budget teen melodrama, The Careless Years (1957), Arthur Hiller's debut, and he appeared in a western, Gun for a Coward (1957). It was designed for Bryna Productions, the Kirk Douglas company. He signed a five-year contract with the company, but this was the first film he made for them.
In 1957, Judd Steiner appeared in the Broadway version of Compulsion, which was based on the Leopold and Loeb stories. He reprised his role in the 1959 film version, for which he and co-star Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman shared the 1959 Cannes Film Award for Best Actor. Stockwell continued to appear on television shows including Playhouse 90, Johnny Staccato, and Buick-Electra Playhouse.
Millie Perkins, a 1950s actress, married Stockwell. He appeared in the British film Sons and Lovers, with Trevor Howard and Wendy Hiller in that year. Later, he called it "a very delightful film to do." He continued to work on television, including episodes of Checkmate, Outlaws, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bus Stop, The Twilight Zone ("A Quality of Mercy"), The Bernard Hitchcock Hour, and The Dick Powell Theatre. In the episode "The Will Santee Story," Millie Perkins appeared on Wagon Train as the lead character.
Stockwell and Perkins divorced in 1962. He appeared in an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night starring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, and Jason Robards, directed by Sidney Lumet. "It's intense and rewarding an experience as I've had." He appeared on Combat!, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Defenders, The Eleventh Hour, Burke's Law, had a six-episode arc on Dr. Kildare and appeared in the film Rapture (1965).
Stockwell dropped out of show business in the mid-1960s, becoming active in the Topanga Canyon hippie subculture as a close friend of child actor George Herms and Wallace Berman, as well as musician "dropout" Russ Tamblyn and musician Neil Young. "I did some heroin and went to some love-ins," he later said. "The experience of those days gave me a wide-view of my life that I didn't have before." I have no regrets."
In Psych-Out (1968) co-starring Susan Strasberg and Jack Nicholson, Stockwell returned to acting in a supporting role. He appeared on Thirty-Minute Theatre in Birmingham, The FBI, and Bonanza, and was in charge of AIP's The Dunwich Horror (1970) with Sandra Dee.
He appeared in Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie (1971), a key part of his career. This film, according to Stockwell, is "is a great picture." It was way before its time, and it still is – and it will continue to grow in importance over the years. Dennis Hopper is a brilliant actor."
Mannix, The FBI (again), Orson Welles' Great Mysteries, and Mission: Impossible were among Mannix', Paper Man (1971) and The Failing of Raymond (1972), as well as a support role in Adventures of Nick Carter (1972).
Stockwell had the lead in a biker film, The Loners (1972), Sam Katzman's last film, and horror comedy The Werewolf of Washington (1973), for which he said he had "a brilliant edge to it. According to Stockwell, it was satirical, political, amusing, witty, and magnificent, but the producer destroyed it.
He conceived the striking front of Neil Young's album American Stars 'n Bars (1976).
He continued to appear on television shows including Police Surgeon, Columbo, Joe Forrester, Three for the Road, Cannon, Ellery Queen, The Unexpected, Greatest Heroes of the Bible, Hart to Hart, Simon & Simon.
He appeared in The Pacific Connection (1974), Won Ton Ton Ton Ton Ton (1976), One Away (1977), and She Came To the Valley (1982).
Stockwell married Joy Marchenko, a textiles specialist who worked in Morocco, on December 15, 1981. Stockwell and Neil Young, as a pair, produced and appeared in Human Highway (1982). He appeared in Alsino and the Condor, a Nicaraguan film, and To Kill a Stranger (1983). By this time, Stockwell had moved to Taos, New Mexico, and was worried about the direction of his work, he was turning to real estate to pay the bills. Austin's mother gave birth to their son on November 5, 1983.
In 1984, he appeared in Wim Wenders' critically acclaimed film Paris, Texas, and in David Lynch's film version of Dune as Wellington Yueh. In between, he appeared in the Fox Mystery Theater. "I think I've got off to a promising start in what amounts to a third career," Stockwell said later.
He appeared in 14 films and one telefilm between 1985 and 1988, mainly as a busy character actor. He appeared in William Friedkin's To Live and Die in Los Angeles in 1985, he played a brief but crucial role as attorney Bob Grimes. He appeared in The Legend of Billie Jean (1985), an episode of Miami Vice, and Papa Was a Preacher (1986). Alexander Stockwell's second child with wife Marchenko, Sophia, was born on August 5, 1985.
Stockwell appeared in another Lynch film, the neo-noir drama Blue Velvet, in 1986. He appeared in episodes of Hunter and Murder, She Wrote, and The Gardens of Stone (1987), Kenny Rogers as The Gambler (1987), and The Blue Irmians (1987).
In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Mafia boss Tony "the Tiger" Russo in the comedy Married to the Mob. It was later identified by Stockwell as "the favorite part I've ever seen in a film." I just felt that the part was just right for me, and I had a way to handle it that seemed to be just right, and it turned out that way."
He appeared in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Copola (1988), the Brazilian The Long Haul (1989), the Twilight Zone's reconstruction (1989), and Limit Up (1989).
Stockwell took the lead in the show Quantum Leap, which lasted for five seasons, in 1989. Stockwell appeared in Catchfire (1990), directed by Hopper (1991), Son of the Morning Star (1992), Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Friends, and Enemies (1992), and Fatal Memories (1992).
Stockwell appeared in Bonanza: The Return (1993), the Innocent (1994) Project. The Innocence Lost (1994), In the Line of Duty: The Innocence of Violence (1994), The Langoliers (1995).
Street Gear (1995), his first regular series, was released, but it was only for 13 episodes. Stockwell appeared in episodes of Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Nowhere Man, The Commish, Can't Hurry Love, and Ink.
Mr. Wrong (1996), Naked Souls (1996), Unabomber (1996), The True Story of the Dark Knights (1997), and Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998).
Stockwell appeared on The Tony Danza Show (1998), which only had 14 episodes.
(1999), Water Damage (1999), Water Damage (1999), The Venice Project (1999), Rites of Passage (1999), and What Katy Did (1999).
They Nest (2000), Batman Beyond (2000), The Frog (2008), The Nanny (2006), and The Nanny Express (2008), among Stockwell's 2000 appearances included They Nest (2000), In Pursuit (2000), Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), The Fete (2000), The Quickie (2000), The Fate (2004), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Realisation (2007), and The Nanny Express (2008).
Stockwell, a visual artist, exhibited collage and sculpture in Taos in 2009.
He appeared on First Monday, Enterprise (reunited with Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap), Stargate SG-1, JAG, and Crash with Hopper. He appeared on Battlestar Galactica from 2006 as John Cavil, a semi-regular character.
He appeared in a recent version of The Dunwich Horror, followed by roles in the films C.O.G. Persecuted (2014), Max Rose (2013), Deep in the Shadow (2014), and Persecuted (2014). Stockwell remained a resident of Taos as of 2015. In a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans titled "Chasing Ghosts," he reunited with Bakula, and the following year appeared in the film Entertainment (2015).
In January 2017, his ex-wife Joy Johnson said he had suffered and recovered from a stroke in 2015 and had been barred from acting.
1952–1968: Adult career and hiatus
Stockwell graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles and spent a year at University of California, Berkeley, before dropping out. Later, he said, "I was depressed and could not get along with others." He immersed himself in music and wrote several short works at UC Berkeley.
In 1956, he took a few years off and resumed his acting career as an adult. He appeared on shows such as Front Row Center, Matinee Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, The United States Steel Hour, Climax!, Men of Annapolis, Cimarron City, Shelley Winters' story, and Wagon Train (S1E3). He played a supporting role in a Western, Gun for a Coward (1957) and the lead role in a low-budget teen melodrama, The Careless Years (1957), Arthur Hiller's debut. It was produced by Bryna Productions, Kirk Douglas's company. He signed a five-year contract with the company, but this was the only film he made for them.
Judd Steiner appeared in the Broadway version of Compulsion, which was based on the Leopold and Loeb story in 1957. He reprised his role in the 1959 film version, for which Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman shared the Cannes Film Award for Best Actor in 1959. Stockwell continued to appear on television on shows including Playhouse 90, Johnny Staccato, and Buick-Electra Playhouse.
Millie Perkins, a stockwell married actress, was born on April 15, 1960. In the British film Sons and Lovers, with Trevor Howard and Wendy Hiller, he appeared as coal miner Walter Morel's son Paul Morel. Later, he called it "a very delightful film to do." He continued to work on television, including episodes from Checkmate, The DuPont Showdown, Outlaws, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bus Stop, The Twilight Zone ("A Quality of Mercy"), The Bernard Hitchcock Hour, and The Dick Powell Theatre. In the episode "The Will Santee Story," he appeared on Millie Perkins on Wagon Train as the lead character.
Stockwell and Perkins divorced in 1962. He appeared in an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's film Long Day's Journey Into Night starring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, and Jason Robards, directed by Sidney Lumet. Later, he characterized it as "as challenging and rewarding an experience as I've had." He appeared on Combat!, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Defenders, The Eleventh Hour, Burke's Law, had a six-episode arc on Dr. Kildare and appeared in the film Rapture (1965).
Stockwell dropped out of show business in the mid-1960s and became active in the Topanga Canyon hippie subculture as a close friend of visual artists George Herms and Wallace Berman, fellow child actor and "drop out" Russ Tamblyn, and singer Neil Young. "I did some heroin and went to some love-ins," he later explained. "The experience of those days gave me a wide, panoramic view of my life that I didn't have before." "I have no regrets" says the author.
Stockwell returned to acting in Psych-Out (1968), co-starring Susan Strasberg and Jack Nicholson. He appeared on Thirty-Minute Theatre in London, The FBI, and Bonanza, as the lead in AIP's The Dunwich Horror (1970) with Sandra Dee.
He appeared in Dennis Hopper's "Last Movie (1971), and he was also a lead actor. "Is a great picture," Stockwell said in 1985. It was way before its time, and it still is – it will keep on being revered over time. Dennis Hopper is a natural performer."
Mannix, The FBI (again), Night Gallery, Orson Welles' Great Mysteries, and Mission: Impossible were all based on Mannix, The Failing of Raymond (1971), as well as a support role in Adventures of Nick Carter (1972).
Stockwell led the way in a biker film, The Loners (1972), Sam Katzman's last film, "a mess," and The Werewolf of Washington (1973), the script for which Stockwell described as "a genius." According to Stockwell, it was satirical, national, funny, witty, and magnificent, but the producer destroyed it.
He created the distinctive cover of Neil Young's album American Stars 'n Bars (1976).
He continued to appear on television shows including Police Surgeon, Columbo, Joe Forrester, Three for the Road, Cannon, Ellington Queen, Three for the Road, The Unexpected, Greatest Heroes of the Bible, Hart to Hart, The A Team, Simon & Simon.
He appeared in a few films including The Pacific Connection (1974), Win, Place or Steal (1976), The Dog That Saved Hollywood (1976), One Away (1976), A Killing Affair (1977), Born to Be Sold (1981), and Wrong Is Right (1982).
Stockwell married Joy Marchenko, a textiles specialist who worked in Morocco, on December 15, 1981. Stockwell and Neil Young supervised and appeared in Human Highway (1982) the following year. He appeared in Alsino and the Condor, a Nicaraguan film, and To Kill a Stranger (1983). By this time, Stockwell had relocated to Taos, New Mexico, and was concerned about the direction of his work, and he had switched to real estate to pay the bills. Austin's mother gave birth to their son on November 5, 1983.
In 1984, he appeared in Wim Wenders' critically acclaimed film Paris, Texas, as Wellington Yueh and the same year in David Lynch's film version of Dune as Wellington Yueh. He appeared in the Fox Mystery Theater in the intervening years. "I think I've got off to a good start in what amounts to a third career," Stockwell said later.
He appeared in 14 films and one telefilm between 1985 and 1988. In 1985, Bob Grimes appeared in William Friedkin's book To Live and Die in Los Angeles. He appeared in Billie Jean (1985), an episode of Miami Vice, and Papa Was a Preacher (1986). On August 5, 1985, Stockwell's second child with wife Marchenko, Sophia, was born.
Stockwell appeared in another Lynch film, the neo-noir thriller Blue Velvet, in 1986. He appeared in episodes of Hunter and Murder, She Wrote, and the films Gardens of Stone (1987) (directed by Francis Ford Coppola).
In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Mafia boss Tony "the Tiger" Russo in the comedy Married to the Mob. It was later identified by Stockwell as "the favorite part of a film" that had ever been shot. I just felt that this part was just right for me, and that I had a way to approach it in a way that seemed to be just right and it turned out that way."
He appeared in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), a Coppola (1988), The Long Haul (1989), The Long Haul (1989), and Limit Up (1989).
Stockwell appeared as the second lead in the show Quantum Leap, which lasted for five seasons, in 1989. Stockwell appeared in Catchfire (1990) directed by Hopper (1991), Sandino (1991), Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Friends, and Enemies (1992), and Fatal Memories (1992).
Stockwell appeared in Bonanza: The Return (1993), In the Line of Duty (1994), The Innocence Lost (1994), The Langoliers (1995).
Street Gear (1995), his first television show, was released, but it was limited to 13 episodes. Stockwell appeared on episodes of Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Nowhere Man, The Commish, Can't Hurry Love, and Ink.
Mr. Wrong (1996), Naked Souls (1996), Unabomber: The True Story (1996), Last Resort (1996), The Rainmaker (1996), and Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998). He appeared in Mr. Wrong (1996), Mr. Wrong (1996), The True Story (1996), Mr. Wrong (1996), Mr. Wrong (1996), Next to Danger (1996), Mr. Wrong (1996), Mr.
Stockwell appeared on The Tony Danza Show (1998), but only in 14 episodes.
(1999), Restraining Order (1999), Water Damage (1999), The Venice Project (1999), Rites of Passage (1999), and What Katy Did (1999).
They Nest (2000), Batman Beyond: In Pursuit (2000), They Nest (2000), The Nuty (2008), The Nanny (2000), And The Ties (2002).
Stockwell, a visual artist, also exhibited collage and sculpture in Taos in 2009.
He appeared on First Monday, Star Trek: Enterprise (reunited with Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap), Stargate SG-1, JAG, and Crash with Hopper. As John Cavil, he served as a semi-regular on Battlestar Galactica from 2006 to 2007.
He made a minor role in a recent edition of The Dunwich Horror in 2009, followed by roles in C.O.G. Max Rose (2013), Deep in the Shadow (2014), and Persecuted (2014). Stockwell remained a resident of Taos as of 2015. In a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans titled "Chasing Ghosts," he reunited with Bakula, and the following year appeared in the film Entertainment (2015).
In January 2017, his ex-wife Joy Kempt announced that he suffered and recovered from a stroke in 2015 and was barred from acting.
2000–2015: Art and later career
They Nest 2000, Many Wells (2004), Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), The Ties (2000), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Nanny Express (2008), and They Nest 2000 (2001), These Nest (2000).
Stockwell, a visual artist, exhibited collage and sculpture in Taos in 2009.
He appeared on First Monday, Enterprise (reunited with Quantum Leap's Scott Bakula), Stargate SG-1, JAG, and Crash with Hopper. John Cavil, who served as a semi-regular soldier on Battlestar Galactica in 2006, appeared on Battlestar Galactica from 2006 as John Cavil.
He made a small appearance in a new 2009 version of The Dunwich Horror, followed by roles in the films C.O.G. Max Rose (2013), Deep in the Shadow (2014), and Persecuted (2014). Stockwell remained a Taos resident as of 2015. In a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans titled "Chasing Ghosts," he reunited with Bakula, and the following year appeared in the film Entertainment (2015).
In January 2017, his ex-wife Joy's, that he suffered and recovered from a stroke in 2015 and had been barred from acting.