Dean Stockwell

Acting · Born 1936-03-05 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American film, television and stage actor with a career spanning over 70 years. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he first came to the public's attention in films including Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), and Kim (1950). As a young adult, he had a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptation of Compulsion; and in 1962 he played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day's Journey into Night, for which he won two Best Actor Awards at the Cannes Film Festival. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his starring role in the 1960 film version of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and…

Filmography

• Paris, Texas as Walt
• Blue Velvet as Ben
• The Player as Andy Civella
• The Rainmaker as Judge Harvey Hale
• Gentleman's Agreement as Tommy Green
• To Live and Die in L.A. as Bob Grimes
• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker as Tim Drake (voice)
• Beverly Hills Cop II as Chip Cain
• In Pursuit as Charles Welz
• Dune as Doctor Wellington Yueh

TV

• Columbo as Eric Wagner
• The Twilight Zone as Martin Decker
• Battlestar Galactica as John Cavil
• Quantum Leap as Al Calavicci
• Combat! as Rob Lawson
• Night Gallery as Charlie Evans
• Stargate SG-1 as Doctor Kieran
• The Twilight Zone as Lieutenant Katell / Lieutenant Yamuri
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Billy Weaver
• Columbo as Lloyd Harrington