Robert Dean Stockwell was an American actor with a career spanning seven decades.
50 Facts About Dean Stockwell
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Dean Stockwell received further critical acclaim for his performance in Married to the Mob, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Dean Stockwell subsequently had roles in The Player, Air Force One, The Rainmaker, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and The Manchurian Candidate.
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Dean Stockwell retired from acting in 2015 following health issues and focused his later life on sculpture and other visual art.
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Dean Stockwell was the younger son of Elizabeth "Betty" Stockwell, a vaudeville actress, and Harry Stockwell, an actor and lyric baritone singer.
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Dean Stockwell's stepmother, Nina Olivette, was an actress, comedian, singer, and toe dancer in burlesque and theater in New York and throughout North America.
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Dean Stockwell's mother took their two sons down to audition, and both boys were successful.
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Dean Stockwell's part was small and the play had only a short run, but it led to a contract with MGM.
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Dean Stockwell made a brief appearance in the MGM school room during the chase sequence of Abbott and Costello in Hollywood.
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Dean Stockwell co-starred with Wallace Beery in The Mighty McGurk at MGM, a remake of The Champ which Beery had made previously with Jackie Cooper.
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Dean Stockwell had the lead in the short A Really Important Person.
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Dean Stockwell had supporting roles in The Arnelo Affair, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, and Song of the Thin Man, billed fourth as the son of William Powell and Myrna Loy's characters.
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Dean Stockwell said it was "a miserable way to bring up a child, though neither my parents nor I recognised it at the time".
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Dean Stockwell played an orphaned runaway longing to go to sea in Deep Waters.
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Dean Stockwell was then borrowed by RKO Pictures to play the title role in The Boy with Green Hair directed by Joseph Losey, a notorious flop for the Dore Schary regime.
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Dean Stockwell was top billed in The Happy Years, which lost a considerable amount of money for the studio, but then played the title role in Kim alongside Errol Flynn and Paul Lukas, a big commercial success.
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In 1951 Dean Stockwell had a lead role with Joel McCrea in a Western at Universal, Cattle Drive.
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Dean Stockwell graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, and attended the University of California, Berkeley for a year before dropping out.
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Dean Stockwell took a number of years off and resumed his acting career as an adult in 1956.
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Dean Stockwell had a supporting role in a Western, Gun for a Coward, and the lead role in a low-budget teen melodrama, The Careless Years, the feature directorial debut of Arthur Hiller.
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Dean Stockwell signed a five-year deal with the company, but this was the only film he made for them.
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Dean Stockwell reprised the role in the 1959 film version, for which he and co-stars Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman shared the 1959 Cannes Film Award for Best Actor.
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Dean Stockwell continued to work heavily in TV on such shows as Playhouse 90, Johnny Staccato, and Buick-Electra Playhouse.
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Dean Stockwell later called it "a very delightful film to do".
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Dean Stockwell appeared with Millie Perkins on Wagon Train as the lead character in the episode "The Will Santee Story".
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Dean Stockwell appeared in an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night with Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson and Jason Robards, under the direction of Sidney Lumet.
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Dean Stockwell returned to acting with a supporting role in Psych-Out co-starring Susan Strasberg and Jack Nicholson.
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Dean Stockwell guest starred on Thirty-Minute Theatre in Britain, The FBI, and Bonanza, and played the lead in AIP's The Dunwich Horror with Sandra Dee.
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Dean Stockwell had a key part in Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie.
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Dean Stockwell guest starred on Mannix, The FBI, Night Gallery, Orson Welles' Great Mysteries, and Mission: Impossible and had the lead in some TV movies, Paper Man and The Failing of Raymond as well as a support part in Adventures of Nick Carter.
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Dean Stockwell appeared in the occasional feature such as The Pacific Connection, Win, Place or Steal, Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, Tracks with Dennis Hopper, One Away, A Killing Affair, She Came to the Valley, Born to Be Sold, and Wrong Is Right.
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On December 15,1981, Dean Stockwell married his second wife, Joy Marchenko, a textiles expert who worked in Morocco.
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Dean Stockwell starred in Alsino and the Condor, a Nicaraguan film, and To Kill a Stranger.
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Dean Stockwell was in The Legend of Billie Jean, an episode of Miami Vice, and Papa Was a Preacher.
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Dean Stockwell's second child with wife Marchenko, Sophia, was born on August 5,1985.
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In 1986, Dean Stockwell made an appearance in another Lynch production, the neo-noir thriller Blue Velvet.
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Dean Stockwell was in episodes of Hunter and Murder, She Wrote, and the films Gardens of Stone, Beverly Hills Cop II, Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues, The Time Guardian, Banzai Runner, and The Blue Iguana.
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Dean Stockwell had roles in Tucker: The Man and His Dream from Coppola, Smokescreen, the Brazilian The Long Haul, the reboot of The Twilight Zone, Buying Time, and Limit Up.
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In 1989, Dean Stockwell appeared as second lead in the show Quantum Leap, which ran for five seasons.
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Dean Stockwell tried another regular series, Street Gear but it only lasted 13 episodes.
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Dean Stockwell was in episodes of Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Nowhere Man, The Commish, Can't Hurry Love, and Ink.
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Dean Stockwell had roles in the comedy Mr Wrong, Naked Souls, Twilight Man, Unabomber: The True Story, Last Resort, Close to Danger, Living in Peril, McHale's Navy, Midnight Blue, Air Force One, The Shadow Men, The Rainmaker, and Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights.
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Dean Stockwell had a regular role on The Tony Danza Show which only ran 14 episodes.
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Dean Stockwell was in Restraining Order, Water Damage, The Venice Project, Rites of Passage, and What Katy Did, The phenomenon the lost archives.
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Also a visual artist, Dean Stockwell exhibited collage and sculpture in Taos in 2009.
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Dean Stockwell guest starred on First Monday, Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate SG-1, JAG, and Crash with Hopper.
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Dean Stockwell had a semi-regular part on Battlestar Galactica from 2006 as John Cavil.
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Dean Stockwell reunited with Bakula in a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans, titled "Chasing Ghosts," and the following year appeared in the film Entertainment.
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Dean Stockwell campaigned for the Democratic Party in the 1992 US presidential election.
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Dean Stockwell died of natural causes in New Zealand on November 7,2021, at the age of 85.