Dean Stockwell is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 65 years. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh and The Green Years; as a young adult he played a ...
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height
5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Profession
Actor, Child Actor
Education
Alexander Hamilton High School
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Joy Marchenko (m. 1981–2004), Millie Perkins (m. 1960–1962), Carol Belle
Children
Sophia Stockwell, Austin Stockwell
Parents
Nina Olivette, Harry Stockwell
Siblings
Guy Stockwell
Nicknames
Robert Dean Stockwell , Roberto Deano Stockwell
Awards
Cannes Best Actor Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Special Award for - Best Juvenile Actor
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Movies
Blue Velvet, Paris, Texas, Compulsion, Married to the Mob, Anchors Aweigh, The Boy with Green Hair, Dune, Gentleman's Agreement, Air Force One, The Player, Human Highway, To Live and Die in L.A., The Manchurian Candidate, The Dunwich Horror, Psych-Out, The Rainmaker, Long Day's Journey Into Night, T...
TV Shows
The Tony Danza Show, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, The Langoliers, Quantum Leap, NBC Matinee Theater
Star Sign
Pisces
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Trademark
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In most of his later work, there are many references to his past roles; these are often referred to by his fans as "kisses with (Dean's) history".
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Unusually expressive eyes, which convey any emotion he wants with the slightest half wink.
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Often seen smoking a cigar.
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Quote
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[In a 1984 interview] Dick Widmark... I remember him with such fondness. He and Errol had something in common. They didn't have a condescending attitude. Being human and honest in a relationship seemed to mean more to them than anything else. It meant a great deal to me. I don't know if Widmark is aware of that. They were straight with me - like, I would imagine, a father would be to a son... if he loved and respected him. And I didn't have a father with me.
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(In a 1984 interview) There were uglies and there were beauties. For me, Errol Flynn was the best. I didn't know anything about sex or what manhood was - and he opened that door for me.
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I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences. It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.
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I hate to admit it, but you can't do a role unless it's somewhere in your psyche. People don't realize how vast the subconscious is. It's like infinity.
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Fact
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According to Katharine Hepburn biographer Charles Higham, the actress became so upset with Dean Stockwell when he showed up o the first day of shooting of "Long Day's Journey into Night" with a bottle of vodka, she almost struck him. When she discovered he found the set very cold, she bought him a coat, which he later found in his dressing room.
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Seen at 2001 Reno Film Festival [November 2001]
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Reception for Dean Stockwell's solo art exhibit at the R. B. Ravens Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, September 3, 2004. [September 2004]
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". His art is known under his full name, Robert Dean Stockwell. He first made art for exhibition in 2003. He had a show at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Dallas, Texas in May of 2006 and has also had shows in Santa Monica, New York and Taos. His works include intricate sculptures using ordinary dice.
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The first person to win two Acting Awards at the Cannes Film Festival, but he had to share both of his awards with his co-stars.
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Saturday, February 29th, 1992. Fans of Quantum Leap (1989) organized this Leap Day ceremony.
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He gave Neil Young the inspiration for the title of his 1970 album, "After The Gold Rush".
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Son Austin (born November 5, 1983) and daughter Sophia (born August 5, 1985).
The Jack Richard Smith Documentary: A Portrait of an Artist
2016
Documentary filming
Himself
Star Ancestors
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Narrator
The After After Party with Steven Michael Quezada
2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Robot Astronomy Talk Show
2009
TV Series short
Himself
Battlestar Galactica: The Last Frakkin' Special
2009
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Battlestar Galactica: Cylons - The Twelve
2009
Video documentary short
John Cavil
Independent Lens
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Cool School
2008
Documentary
Himself
A Kiss with History: Remembering 'Quantum Leap'
2004
Video documentary short
Himself
Split Screen
1999
TV Series
Himself
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives
1998-1999
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Gallup Extreme Magic
1996
TV Movie
Himself
The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1993
TV Special
Himself - Nominee: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Jeopardy!
1992
TV Series
Himself - Contestant
The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1992
TV Special
Himself - Nominee: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series & Presenter: Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991
TV Movie documentary
Himself
One on One with John Tesh
1991
TV Series
Himself
The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1991
TV Special
Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1991
TV Special
Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
The 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1990
TV Special
Himself - Nominee: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series / Presenter: Outstanding Supporting Actorin a Miniseries or a Special & Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special
CBS This Morning
1990
TV Series
Himself
The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1990
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
When We Were Young...: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The 61st Annual Academy Awards
1989
TV Special
Himself - Audience Member
The Arsenio Hall Show
1989
TV Series
Himself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Gregory Peck
1989
TV Special
Himself
Late Night with David Letterman
1988
TV Series
Himself
Les rendez-vous du dimanche
1976
TV Series
Himself
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
1975
Documentary
Narrator (voice)
Here's Hollywood
1961
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Extra
2014
TV Series
Himself
Edición Especial Coleccionista
2014
TV Series
Doctor Wellington Yueh
Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference 2012
2012
TV Series
Himself - Phenomenon Host
Strictly Courtroom
2008
TV Movie documentary
Judd Steiner (uncredited)
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's The Rainmaker'
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
2002
TV Special
Himself
Beverly Hills Cop II: The Phenomenon Continues
2002
Video documentary short
Chip Cain (uncredited)
Biography
1999
TV Series documentary
Aaron Bliss
20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
TV Movie documentary
Actor 'Compulsion' (uncredited)
American Masters
1995
TV Series documentary
The Dick Cavett Show
1971
TV Series
Himself
Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership
1949
Documentary short
Himself (uncredited)
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2008
Action on Film Award
Action on Film International Film Festival, USA
Best Supporting Actor - Short
Al's Beef (2008)
1992
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Motion Picture
On 29 February 1992. At 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
1991
Q Award
Viewers for Quality Television Awards
Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series
Quantum Leap (1989)
1990
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Quantum Leap (1989)
1989
BSFC Award
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Married to the Mob (1988)
1989
NSFC Award
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Supporting Actor
Married to the Mob (1988)
1988
KCFCC Award
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Married to the Mob (1988)
1988
NYFCC Award
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Married to the Mob (1988)
1962
Best Actor
Cannes Film Festival
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
1959
Best Actor
Cannes Film Festival
Compulsion (1959)
1948
Special Award
Golden Globes, USA
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1993
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Quantum Leap (1989)
1993
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Quantum Leap (1989)
1993
American Television Award
American Television Awards
Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series
Quantum Leap (1989)
1993
Q Award
Viewers for Quality Television Awards
Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series
Quantum Leap (1989)
1992
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Quantum Leap (1989)
1992
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Quantum Leap (1989)
1991
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Quantum Leap (1989)
1991
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Quantum Leap (1989)
1990
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Quantum Leap (1989)
1989
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Married to the Mob (1988)
1989
CFCA Award
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Married to the Mob (1988)
1961
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Actor - Drama
Sons and Lovers (1960)
Known for movies
Quantum Leap (1989-1993) as Admiral Al Calavicci
Blue Velvet (1986) as Ben
Air Force One (1997) as Defense Secretary Walter Dean
$1.5 Million
