13 Facts About Leonard Stone

Leonard Stone was an American character actor who played supporting roles in over 120 television shows and 35 films.

Leonard Stone was a midshipman during training with the US Navy, going on to serve as "skipper on a minesweeper in Japanese waters".

Leonard Stone started his career as a young actor studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London He performed in the West End, on Broadway, and toured the world.

Leonard Stone traveled for eight years in Australia and New Zealand with the musical South Pacific.

Leonard Stone was in the Tony Award-nominated cast of Look Homeward, Angel in 1957, which premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

Leonard Stone was the last surviving adult character who toured the factory in the movie, but Diana Sowle, who played Mrs Bucket, was still alive at the time of his death.

Leonard Stone appeared in the Jerry Lewis vehicle The Big Mouth in 1967.

Leonard Stone appeared in the TV movies The Ghost of Sierra de Cobra, A Step Out of Line, Terror in the Sky, Beg, Borrow or Steal, The Runaways, The Girl in the Empty Grave, The Other Side of Hell, Zuma Beach, See Arnold Run, and Surrender, Dorothy.

In 1961 and 1962, Leonard Stone was cast twice in different roles on The Real McCoys in the episodes "Money from Heaven" and "You Can't Beat the Army".

Between 1962 and 1966, Leonard Stone made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including his season-six, 1962 role as murderer Jerel Leland in "The Case of the Hateful Hero".

Leonard Stone played Farnum the Great in two episodes of Lost in Space.

Leonard Stone appeared twice on The Donna Reed Show, as Mr Trestle in "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys" and as Harlan Carmody, Jr.

In 1971, Leonard Stone appeared as Tom Wagner on The Men from Shiloh in the episode titled "The Town Killer".