DEAN STOCKWELL

'Dean Stockwell' (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning American film and television actor, active for over 60 years. He played Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci in the NBC television series ''Quantum Leap'', and currently appears in the Sci Fi Channel revival of ''Battlestar Galactica'' as Brother Cavil.

Contents

Biography

Career

Personal life

Filmography

Television work

References

External links

Biography

Career

Stockwell began his acting career at age seven. Some of his notable child roles include that of Robert Shannon in ''The Green Years'' (1946), as well as playing Gregory Peck's son in ''Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947). He also starred in the lead role of the film ''The Boy With Green Hair'' in 1948, and in a film adaptation of ''The Secret Garden'' in 1949. Unlike many child actors, he continued to act past his teenage years. In 1945 he appeared in a main character role (Donald Martin) in the musical movie "Anchors Aweigh" alongside Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. In 1950, he appeared in a lead role alongside Errol Flynn in ''Kim'', the film of Rudyard Kipling's novel of the same name.
In 1959, Stockwell appeared in the film ''Compulsion'', based on the famous case of Leopold and Loeb (with characters names changed to "Steiner and Strauss"), playing Judd Steiner. ''Compulsion'' also starred Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles as the Clarence Darrow-based lawyer Jonathan Wilk. In 1962, Stockwell appeared in an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' along with Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson and Jason Robards. In 1965, his performance as an escaped convict who develops feelings for a 15-year-old girl in ''Rapture'' drew both praise and controversy. Nevertheless, his dynamic talent as a thespian was recognized.
In 1973, Stockwell was the leading actor in a B-rated horror flick called ''The Werewolf of Washington''. Dean played Jack Whittier, a reporter who had has an affair with the daughter of the U.S. President and is sent to Hungary. There he is bitten by a werewolf, and then gets transferred back to Washington D.C., where he gets a job as Press Secretary to the President. Then bodies start turning up all over the city.
In 1984, he appeared in Wim Wenders' critically acclaimed film ''Paris, Texas'', and in that same year, in David Lynch's film version of ''Dune'' as the traitor Dr. Yueh. In 1986, Stockwell made a memorable appearance in another Lynch production, the controversial neo-noir classic thriller ''Blue Velvet.'' In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Mafia boss Tony "the Tiger" Russo in the comedy ''Married to the Mob''.

Personal life

Stockwell was born 'Robert Deane Stockwell'^[1] in North Hollywood, California to Harry Bayless Stockwell, or Harry Stockwell, an actor and singer, and Nina Olivette (née Elizabeth Margaret Veronica), an actress and dancer.^[2] He has been married twice:
#Millie Perkins (1960 – 1962) (divorced)
# Joy Marchenko (1981 – 2004) (divorced); one daughter and one son
Stockwell is an accomplished artist. He creates both digitally enhanced photographs and original collages in the style of his friend and fellow artist, Wallace Berman. He is also a friend of musician Neil Young and designed the album cover art for ''American Stars 'N Bars''. Together they would direct ''Human Highway'', which Stockwell wrote. The title track from Young's 1970 album After the Gold Rush is based on the title of a screenplay written by Stockwell.^[3]
Stockwell is an avid golfer and would play golf during breaks in filming episodes of ''Quantum Leap''. He is also a martial artist, holding instructor rank in Modern Arnis.

Filmography

Features:

★ ''The Valley of Decision'' (1945)

★ ''Anchors Aweigh'' (1945)

★ ''Abbott and Costello in Hollywood'' (1945)

★ ''The Green Years'' (1946)

★ ''Home, Sweet Homicide'' (1946)

★ ''The Mighty McGurk'' (1947)

★ ''The Arnelo Affair'' (1947)

★ ''The Romance of Rosy Ridge'' (1947)

★ ''Song of the Thin Man'' (1947)

★ ''Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947)

★ ''Deep Waters'' (1948)

★ ''The Boy with Green Hair'' (1948)

★ ''Down to the Sea in Ships'' (1949)

★ ''The Secret Garden'' (1949)

★ ''Stars in My Crown'' (1950)

★ ''The Happy Years'' (1950)

★ ''Kim'' (1950)

★ ''Cattle Drive'' (1951)

★ ''Gun for a Coward'' (1957)

★ ''The Careless Years'' (1957)

★ ''Compulsion'' (1959)

★ ''Sons and Lovers'' (1960)

★ ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' (1962)

★ ''Rapture'' (1965)

★ ''Psych-Out'' (1968)

★ ''The Dunwich Horror'' (1970)

★ ''The Last Movie'' (1971)

★ ''The Loners'' (1972)

★ ''The Werewolf of Washington'' (1973)

★ ''The Pacific Connection'' (1975)

★ ''Win, Place or Steal'' (1975)

★ ''Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer'' (1975) (documentary) (narrator)

★ ''Tracks'' (1976)

★ ''One Away'' (1976)

★ ''Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood'' (1976)

★ ''She Came to the Valley'' (1979)

★ ''Alsino and the Condor'' (1982)

★ ''Wrong Is Right'' (1982)

★ ''Human Highway'' (1982)

★ ''Paris, Texas'' (1984)

★ ''Dune'' (1984)

★ ''To Kill a Stranger'' (1985)

★ ''Papa Was a Preacher'' (1985)

★ ''The Legend of Billie Jean'' (1985)

★ ''To Live and Die in L.A.'' (1985)

★ ''Blue Velvet'' (1986)

★ ''The Time Guardian'' (1987)

★ ''Banzai Runner'' (1987)

★ ''Gardens of Stone'' (1987)

★ ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987)

★ ''Smokescreen'' (1988)

★ ''The Long Haul'' (1988)

★ ''The Blue Iguana'' (1988)

★ '' (1988)

★ ''Married to the Mob'' (1988)

★ ''Buying Time'' (1989)

★ ''Limit Up'' (1989)

★ ''Sandino'' (1990)

★ ''Catchfire'' (1990)

★ ''Friends and Enemies'' (1992)

★ ''The Player'' (1992)

★ ''Chasers'' (1994)

★ ''Naked Souls'' (1995)

★ ''Mr. Wrong'' (1996)

★ ''Last Resort'' (1996)

★ ''McHale's Navy'' (1997)

★ ''Midnight Blue'' (1997)

★ ''Living in Peril'' (1997)

★ ''Air Force One'' (1997)

★ ''The Rainmaker'' (1997)

★ ''The Shadow Men'' (1998)

★ ''Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights'' (1998)

★ ''Restraining Order'' (1999)

★ ''Water Damage'' (1999)

★ ''The Venice Project'' (1999)

★ ''Rites of Passage'' (1999)

★ ''The Flunky'' (2000)

★ '' (2000) (direct-to-video) (voice)

★ ''Inferno'' (2001)

★ ''In Pursuit'' (2001)

★ ''Italian Ties'' (2001)

★ ''CQ'' (2001)

★ ''The Quickie'' (2001)

★ ''Buffalo Soldiers'' (2001)

★ ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (2004)

★ ''The Deal'' (2006)

★ ''The Cool School'' (2007) (documentary)
Short Subjects:

★ ''A Really Important Person'' (1947)

★ ''Some of the Best'' (1949)

Television work

★ ''The Twilight Zone: A Quality of Mercy'' (1961)

★ ''Paper Man'' (1971)

★ ''The Failing of Raymond'' (1971)

★ ''Adventures of Nick Carter'' (1972) (unsold pilot)

★ ''Cop on the Beat'' (1975)

★ ''A Killing Affair'' (1977)

★ ''Greatest Heroes of the Bible'' (1978) (miniseries)

★ ''Born to Be Sold'' (1981)

★ ''The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues'' (1987)

★ ''Quantum Leap'' (1989-1993)

★ ''Captain Planet and the Planeteers'' (cast member from 1990-1992) (voice)

★ ''Son of the Morning Star'' (1991)

★ ''Shame'' (1992)

★ ''Fatal Memories'' (1992)

★ ''Caught in the Act'' (1993)

★ ''Bonanza: The Return'' (1993)

★ ''In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance'' (1994)

★ ''Vanishing Son II'' (1994)

★ ''Justice in a Small Town'' (1994)

★ ''The Innocent'' (1994)

★ ''Madonna: Innocence Lost'' (1994)

★ ''Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan'' (1995)

★ ''The Langoliers'' (1995)

★ ''Twilight Man'' (1996)

★ ''Unabomber: The True Story'' (1996)

★ ''Close to Danger'' (1997)

★ ''The Tony Danza Show'' (1997-1998)

★ ''Phenomenon: The Lost Archives'' (1998)

★ ''It's True'' (1998) (unsold pilot)

★ ''What Katy Did'' (1999)

★ ''They Nest'' (2000)

★ ''JAG'' (recurring cast member from 2002-2004)

★ ''American Black Beauty'' (2005)

★ ''Battlestar Galactica'' (recurring cast member from 2006-2007)

References

1. According to the State of California. ''California Birth Index, 1905-1995''. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com
2. http://www.filmreference.com/film/95/Dean-Stockwell.html
3. Allmusic.com review of "After the Gold Rush" [1]

External links

★

★ Project Quantum Leap,fan club site and publisher of The Observer

★ The Greening of Dean Stockwell (Interview with Dean Stockwell on the making of "Married to the Mob" from the L.A. Weekly) by Michael Dare