Dean Stockwell Biography
Dean Stockwell, born Robert Dean Stockwell is a retired American actor of film and television, Photogenic child actor of the 1940s, popular due in no small measure to his air of innocence and his beautiful, cherubic face with its dimples and his sparkling eyes, topped with a crown of curls.
Dean Stockwell Age
He was born on March 5, 1936 in North Hollywood, California, U.S. He is 83 years old as at 2019. He grew up in New York.
Dean Stockwell Height
The retired American actor stands at a height of 5 ft 7 (1.70 m).
Dean Stockwell Family
He was born into a family of entertainers. He is the youngest son of Elizabeth “Betty” Stockwell and Harry Stockwell.
Dean Stockwell Wife
Stockwell married Millie Perkins in 1960 and they divorced in 1962. He later married Joy Marchenko in 1981.
Dean Stockwell Children
He has two children daughter Sophia Stockwell and a son Austin Stockwell.
Dean Stockwell Movies And Tv Shows
Filmography
Film
2000 – 2015
- 2015 Entertainment as Frank
- 2014 Deep in the Darkness as Phil Deighton
- 2014 Rusty Steel as Hunts
- 2013 O.G. as Hobbs
- 2013 Persecuted as Dave Wilson
- 2013 Max Rose as Ben Tracey
- 2008 Al’s Beef as The Sheriff
- 2008 The Cool School as Himself
- 2007 The Deal as Agent Tremayne
- 2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Mark Whiting
- 2002 Inferno Mayor as Bill Klinger
- 2001 In Pursuit as Charles Welz
- 2001 Italian Ties as Jimmy
- 2001 CQ as Dr. Ballard
- 2001 The Quickie as Michael
- 2001 Buffalo Soldiers as General Lancaster
- 2000 The Flunky as Micky
- 2000 They Nest as Sheriff Hobbs
- 2000 Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker as Tim Drake
1990 – 1999
- 1999 Restraining Order as Charlie Mason
- 1999 Water Damage as Det. Frank Skoufaris
- 1999 The Venice Project as Sen. Campbell
- 1999 Rites of Passage as Del Farraday
- 1998 Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights as Bophisto
- 1997 McHale’s Navy as Capt. Wallace B. Binghamton
- 1997 Midnight Blue as Katz-Feeney
- 1997 Living in Peril as William
- 1997 Air Force One as Defense Secretary Walter Dean
- 1997 The Shadow Men as Stan Mills
- 1997 The Rainmaker as Judge Harvey Hale
- 1996 Wrong as Jack Tramonte
- 1996 The Last Resort as Grey Wolf
- 1996 Unabomber: The True Story as Ben Jeffries
- 1995 Naked Souls as Duncan
- 1994 Chasers as Salesman Stig
- 1992 Friends and Enemies as Freddie
- 1992 The Player as Andy Civella
- 1990 Limit Up as Peter Oak
- 1990 Sandino as Captain Hatfield
- 1990 Catchfire as John Luponi
1982 – 1989
- 1989 Buying Time as Detective Novak
- 1988 Palais Royale as Michael Dattalico
- 1988 The Long Haul as Mario
- 1988 The Blue Iguana as Detective Carl Strick
- 1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Howard Hughes
- 1988 Married to the Mob as Anthony “Tony the Tiger” Russo
- 1987 The Time Guardian as Boss
- 1987 Banzai Runner as Billy Baxter
- 1987 Gardens of Stone as Capt. Homer Thomas
- 1987 Beverly Hills Cop II as Chip Cain
- 1986 Blue Velvet as Ben
- 1985 To Kill a Stranger as John Carver
- 1985 Papa Was a Preacher as John
- 1985 The Legend of Billie Jean as Muldaur
- 1985 To Live and Die in L.A. as Bob Grimes
- 1984 Paris, Texas as Walt Henderson
- 1984 Dune as Doctor Wellington Yueh
- 1982 Wrong Is Right as Hacker
- 1982 Human Highway as Otto Quartz
1957 – 1979
- 1979 She Came to the Valley as Pat Westall
- 1979 Alsino and the Condor as Frank
- 1977 Tracks as Mark
- 1976 Citizen Soldier as Dannes
- 1976 One Away as Pete Bass
- 1976 Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Paul Lavell
- 1975 Win, Place or Steal as Billy
- 1975 Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer as Narrator
- 1974 The Pacific Connection as Miguel
- 1973 The Werewolf of Washington as Jack Whittier
- 1972 The Loners as Stein
- 1971 The Last Movie as Billy the Kid
- 1970 The Dunwich Horror as Wilbur Whateley
- 1968 Psych-Out as Dave
- 1965 Rapture as Joseph
- 1962 Long Day’s Journey Into Night as Edmund Tyrone
- 1960 Sons and Lovers as Paul Morel
- 1959 Compulsion as Judd Steiner
- 1957 Gun for a Coward as Hade Keough
- 1957 Wagon Train as Jimmy Drew
- 1957 The Careless Years as Jerry Vernon
1945 – 1951
- 1951 Cattle Drive as Chester Graham, Jr.
- 1945 – 1950
- 1950 Stars in My Crown as John Kenyon
- 1950 The Happy Years as John Humperdink Stover
- 1950 Kim as Kim
- 1949 Some of the Rest as N/A
- 1949 Down to the Sea in Ships as Jed Joy
- 1949 The Secret Garden as Colin Craven
- 1948 Deep Waters as Donny Mitchell
- 1948 The Boy with Green Hair as Peter Fry
- 1947 The Mighty McGurk as Nipper
- 1947 The Arnelo Affair as Ricky Parkson
- 1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Andrew MacBean
- 1947 A Really Important Person as Billy Reilly
- 1947 Song of the Thin Man as Nick Charles, Jr.
- 1947 Gentleman’s Agreement as Tommy Green
- 1946 The Green Years as Robert Shannon
- 1946 Home, Sweet Homicide as Archie Carstairs
- 1945 The Horn Blows at Midnight as N/A
- 1945 The Valley of Decision as Paulie
- 1945 Anchors Aweigh as Donald Martin
- 1945 Abbott and Costello in Hollywood as Dean
Television
1997 – 2014
- 2014 Enlisted as Dan
- 2014 NCIS: New Orleans as Tom Hamilton
- 2009 The Dunwich Horror as Dr. Henry Armitage
- 2009 Battlestar Galactica: The Plan as John Cavil
- 2008 Crash as Frankie Navajo
- 2006–2009 Battlestar Galactica as John Cavil
- 2002–2004 JAG as Senator Edward Sheffield
- 2002 First Monday as Senator Edward Sheffield
- 2002 Star Trek: Enterprise as Colonel Grat
- 2002 Stargate SG-1 as Doctor Kieran
- 1999 What Katy Did as Tramp
- 1999 The Drew Carey Show as Hal
- 1998 It’s True as Mr. Murphy
- 1998 Phenomenon: The Lost Archives
- 1997–1998 The Tony Danza Show as Frank DiMeo
1990 – 1996
- 1996 Unabomber: The True Story as Ben Jeffries
- 1995 The Langoliers as Bob Jenkins
- 1995 The Man from Snowy River as Professor Julius Waugh
- 1995 Nowhere Man as Gus Shepherd
- 1994 Vanishing Son II as Mickey Jo
- 1994 Justice in a Small Town Commissioner as Sam Caldwell
- 1994 The Innocent as Capt. Jason Flaboe
- 1994 Madonna: Innocence Lost as Tony Ciccone
- 1994 In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance as Jack Lowe
- 1994 Chicago Hope as Robert St. Clair
- 1994 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Preston Carpenter
- 1993 Bonanza: The Return as Augustus Brandenburg
- 1991 Son of the Morning Star as General Philip Sheridan
- 1990–1992 Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Duke Nukem
Dean Stockwell Net Worth
The American actor has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million from his acting career.
Dean Stockwell Blue Velvet
He played the role of Ben in Blue Velvet a 1986 American neo-noir mystery film.
Dean Stockwell Quantum Leap
He played the role of Admiral Al Calavicci in the American science-fiction television series Quantum Leap.
Dean Stockwell Twilight Zone
Stockwell played the role of Martin Decker in the 1989 The Twilight Zone.
Dean Stockwell Battlestar Galactica
He played the role of John Cavil in Battlestar Galactica (BSG) an American military science fiction television series.
Dean Stockwell Dune
He played the role of Doctor Wellington Yueh in Dune a 1984 American epic science fiction film.
Dean Stockwell Wagon Train
He played the role of Jimmy Drew in Wagon Train an American Western series that aired on the NBC television network.
Dean Stockwell Interview
Dean Stockwell says child stardom was ‘not great fun’
Source: ctvnews.ca
TORONTO – Oscar and Emmy-nominated actor Dean Stockwell doesn’t have fond memories of being a prolific child star in 1940s films including “Anchors Aweigh,” “Gentleman’s Agreement” and “Deep Waters.”
“Not great fun, no. It was work,” Stockwell, 76, explained in a recent telephone interview to promote his appearance at next weekend’s third annual Wizard World Toronto Comic Con.
“It was six-days-a-week work, and I’d have to work at least eight hours a day and I’d have to fit three hours of schooling in somewhere through the day, in minimum 15-minute segments. So if the assistant director said, ‘Go to school’ after we’d finish a shot, I’d go in there and I’d have to stay in there 15 minutes, and they’d be waiting at the door for me to come out and block the next shot. So it meant zero education.
“I had one wonderful teacher who really realized that it was ridiculous and impossible to try to teach school to a child under those circumstances, so we played Gin Rummy and it was great. I learned more from that than anything else.”
Stockwell did, however, learn performing skills from some showbiz icons early in his career, when he was a curly-haired cutie under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
While playing a runaway child in 1945’s “Anchors Aweigh,” for instance, Stockwell shared the screen with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.
“I kind of remember a little bit of contrast between them because Gene was much more involved in what he was doing and I think he felt a little threatened by a child being involved, because there’s an old adage among actors: Don’t ever work with animals or kids because they steal the scenes,” Stockwell said from his home in Taos, N.M., where he creates collage artwork.
“But Frank was not that way at all. He couldn’t care less. He was very warm and very nice to me.”
Stockwell has since appeared in dozens of films and TV series, including 1988’s “Married to the Mob,” for which he received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He’s also been up for four Emmy Awards and four Golden Globes for playing cigar-smoking Rear Admiral Albert Calavicci in the sci-fi series “Quantum Leap.” Stockwell also has a fifth Golden Globe nom to his credit — for 1960’s “Sons and Lovers” — as well as two best-actor honours from the Cannes Film Festival.
Stockwell said his roles in “Quantum Leap” and “Battlestar Galactica” are what fans are most curious about when he attends pop-culture conventions like Wizard World Toronto Comic Con, which runs April 14 to April 15 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
“Some people are aware that I had a career before those two,” said Stockwell, adding with the laugh: “I’ve had the world’s longest career here. It’s true — even longer than Betty White … because I started when I was seven.”
Another project Stockwell fans often don’t realize he was a part of: legendary Canadian rocker Neil Young’s 1970 album “After the Gold Rush.”
The album’s title track was inspired by the name of an unproduced screenplay that Stockwell had written on Dennis Hopper’s insistence after the two shot “The Last Movie” together.
Stockwell said he’s not sure how Young — whom he first met while they were living in California’s Topanga Canyon — got hold of the screenplay, but “It stimulated him to write” the album.
“We got to know each other pretty well,” said Stockwell, who went on to co-direct and co-star with Young in the 1982 comedy film “Human Highway” and designed the cover art for his ’77 album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”
“When he did the album, ‘After the Gold Rush,’ he recorded it at all his house studio there in Topanga and I was there for the whole recording. It was wonderful.”
Other stars scheduled to this year’s Wizard World Toronto Comic Con include “Quantum Leap” star Scott Bakula; actor Paul Wesley of “The Vampire Diaries”; “Star Trek: Voyager” actress Jeri Ryan; and Amy Acker of “Alias” and “Angel” fame.