
Dean Stockwell
Department: Acting
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 Lovers. He appeared in supporting roles in such films as Dune (1984), Paris, Texas (1984), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Blue Velvet (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988). He received further critical acclaim for his performance in Married to the Mob (1988), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently had roles in The Player (1992), Air Force One (1997), The Rainmaker (1997) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004). His television roles include Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci in Quantum Leap (1989–1993), Navy Secretary Edward Sheffield on JAG (2002–2004), and Brother Cavil on Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009). Following his roles on Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica, he appeared at numerous science fiction conventions. He retired from acting in 2015 following health issues and focused his later life on sculpture and other visual art.
Known For

Beverly Hills Cop II
1987

In Pursuit
2001

Paris, Texas
1984

Al's Beef
2008

Blue Velvet
1986

Dune
1984

Married to the Mob
1988

The Player
1992

A Killing Affair
1977

Wrong Is Right
1982

The Rainmaker
1997

The Time Guardian
1987

Air Force One
1997

Gentleman's Agreement
1947

Catchfire
1990

To Live and Die in L.A.
1985

CQ
2001

They Nest
2000

Gardens of Stone
1987

Compulsion
1959

The Arnelo Affair
1947

The Manchurian Candidate
2004

Deep Waters
1948

Song of the Thin Man
1947

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976

The Shadow Men
1997

McHale's Navy
1997

Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962

The Secret Garden
1949

The Boy with Green Hair
1948

The Valley of Decision
1945

The Legend of Billie Jean
1985

Psych-Out
1968

The Dunwich Horror
2009

The Deal: El trato
2006

Anchors Aweigh
1945

The Dunwich Horror
1970

The Last Movie
1971

The Quickie
2001

Human Highway
1982

Rusty Steel
2014

Smokescreen
1988

Sons and Lovers
1960

Rapture
1965

Last Resort
1996

The Werewolf of Washington
1973

Naked Souls
1996

The Green Years
1946

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
1975

Banzai Runner
1987

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009

The Loners
1972

Win, Place or Steal
1975

The Mighty McGurk
1947

The Happy Years
1950

Sandino
1990

Kim
1950

Papa Was a Preacher
1986

Stars in My Crown
1950

Cattle Drive
1951

Home Sweet Homicide
1946

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
1995

C.O.G.
2013

What Katy Did
1999

American Black Beauty
2005

Limit Up
1989

Down to the Sea in Ships
1949

Madonna - Innocence Lost
1994

Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
1998

Alsino and the Condor
1982

The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987

Living in Peril
1997

The Careless Years
1957

Twilight Man
1996

Max Rose
2016

The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972

To Kill a Stranger
1986

Restraining Order
1999

Jorge, um Brasileiro
1988

Inferno
2002

The Failing of Raymond
1971

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947

The Timekeepers of Eternity
2021

Paperman
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She Came To The Valley
1979

Gun for a Coward
1956

Persecuted
2014

Buffalo Soldiers
2002

The Ping-Pong Match
1968

Deep in the Darkness
2014

Tracks
1976

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991

Fatal Memories
1992

A Really Important Person
1947

Cop on the Beat
1975

Shame
1992

Paper Man
1971

Mr. Wrong
1996

Entertainment
2015

The Nanny Express
2009

Born to Be Sold
1981

In Hollywood's Backyard: Topanga in the 1970s
2017

Vanishing Son II
1994

The Blue Iguana
1988

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988

The Pacific Connection
1974

Chasers
1994

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
2000

Water Damage
1999

Midnight Blue
1997

Unabomber: The True Story
1996

The Venice Project
1999

Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978

Bonanza: The Return
1993

Along for the Ride
2016

One Away
1976

Rites of Passage
1999

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994

Justice in a Small Town
1994

The Innocent
1994

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945

Buying Time
1989

The Cool School
2008

The Sweet Scent of Death
1984

President Wolfman
2012

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989

Friends and Enemies
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Murder, She Wrote
1984

Columbo
1971

Star Trek: Enterprise
2001

Burke's Law
1963

The A-Team
1983

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

The F.B.I.
1965

Simon & Simon
1981

Miami Vice
1984

The Twilight Zone
1985

Battlestar Galactica
2004

Mannix
1967

The Commish
1991

Jeopardy!
1984

Quantum Leap
1989

Hart to Hart
1979

Combat!
1962

Night Gallery
1970

General Electric Theater
1953

Mission: Impossible
1966

Cannon
1971

JAG
1995

Stargate SG-1
1997

First Monday
2002

Johnny Staccato
1959

Hunter
1984

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Twilight Zone
1959

Chicago Hope
1994

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

The Greatest Show on Earth
1963

Outlaws
1960

Bus Stop
1961

Police Story
1973

McCloud
1970

Climax!
1954

Matinee Theater
1955

Ellery Queen
1975

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
1984

Dr. Kildare
1961

The Defenders
1961

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959

The Tony Danza Show
1997

The Langoliers
1995

Three for the Road
1975

Police Story
1973

Police Story
1973

Police Story
1973

The Streets of San Francisco
1972

Matinee Theater
1955

NCIS: New Orleans
2014

Wagon Train
1957

Columbo
1971

Bonanza
1959

The F.B.I.
1965

Phenomenon: The Lost Archives
1998

General Electric Theater
1953

Enlisted
2014

Nowhere Man
1995

Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990

Burke's Law
1994

The Drew Carey Show
1995

The Danny Thomas Hour
1967

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Wagon Train
1957

Wagon Train
1957

Wagon Train
1957

The Man from Snowy River
1994

MADtv
1995

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Can't Hurry Love
1995

Vanishing Son
1994

Late Night with David Letterman
1982