Robert Dean Stockwell
| Sign | Pisces |
| Born | Mar 5, 1936 Hollywood, CA |
| Age | 88 |
Dean Stockwell | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1945-present |
| Top Roles | Nick Charles Jr., Paul Morel, Colin Craven, Edmund Tyrone, Donny Mitchell |
| Top Genres | Drama, Comedy, Romance, Family, Crime, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Romance (Comic), Book-Based, Los Angeles |
| Top Collaborators | Leon Ames, James Flavin, Franklyn Farnum, Morris Ankrum |
| Shares birthday with | Rex Harrison, Eddie Hodges, Henry Travers see more.. |
Dean Stockwell Overview:
Legendary actor, Dean Stockwell, was born Robert Dean Stockwell on Mar 5, 1936 in Hollywood, CA. As of December 2023, Dean Stockwell was 87 years old.
MINI BIO:
Appealing American boy actor with dark, curly hair. As a young adult, he offered two excellent performances, in Compulsion and Sons and Lovers, but his star career got away from him in the sixties: some said he was too choosy. Maybe he is just a clever actor who lacks the strength and stature of a superstar. Married to Millie Perkins 1960-1964. An Oscar nominee for Married in the Mob, he won renewed popularity in the 1990s in the TV series Quantum Leap. Brother of actor Guy Stockwell. (Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).HONORS and AWARDS:
.Although Stockwell was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.
Academy Awards
| Year | Award | Film name | Role | Result |
| 1988 | Best Supporting Actor | Married to the Mob (1988) | N/A | Nominated |
He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.
BlogHub Articles:
On DVD: Wallace Beery and in The Mighty McGurk (1947)
By KC on Jul 2, 2019 From Classic MoviesWallace Beery picks up where he left off with Jackie Cooper in the 1930s in The Mighty McGurk (1947), a drama of an ex-boxer in the Bowery who finds himself responsible for a British orphan (). Now available on DVD from Warner Archive, if you didn’t see the extra mileage on Beery... Read full article
Wednesday's Child:
By Beth Daniels on Oct 16, 2014 From Mildred's FatburgersBorn Robert , March 5, 1936 The handsome murderer in COMPULSION This Kid's Nearly 80 I realize it's Thursday, but this particular Wednesday's Child is not full of woe, but has come far and clearly has far to go. is one of my favorite... Read full article
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Dean Stockwell Quotes:
Edmund Tyrone: Baudelaire.
James Tyrone: [Dismissively] Never heard of him. Where you get your taste in authors...
James Tyrone: [Motioning to Edmund's bookshelves] This damned library of yours: Voltaire and Rousseau and Schopenhauer. And Ibsen... Atheists, fools and madmen! And your poet, this... "Baudelaire." And Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. Whitman and Poe... Whoremongers and degenerates! When I've got three good sets of Shakespeare there you can read...
Edmund Tyrone: They say he was a souse, too.
James Tyrone: They lie. I don't doubt he liked his glass - it's a good man's failing - but he knew how to drink that it didn't poison his mind with morbidness and filth. Don't compare him with the pack you've got here. Your dirty Zola. And your...
James Tyrone: [Picking up one of Edmund's books and dismissively flipping through the pages] ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was a dope fiend, a... hmm.
Edmund Tyrone: [Bemused at his father's sudden discomfort] Perhaps it would be wise to change the subject.
[last lines]
Chorus: [singing] Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh.
Chorus, Donald Martin: [singing] Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day.
Chorus: [singing] Through our last night on shore, drink to the foam. / Until we meet once more, here's wishing you a happy voyage home. / Anchors Aweigh.
Tommy Green: Pop, are we Jewish? Jimmy Kelley said we were. Our janitor told his janitor.
Phil Green: Well, what did you tell Jimmy Kelley?
Tommy Green: I said I'd ask you.
Phil Green: Well, it's like this. Remember that movie Kathy and I took you to, and you asked if things like that really happened?
Tommy Green: Kathy said they were pretending.
Phil Green: Well, I'm pretending I'm Jewish for something I'm writing.
Tommy Green: You mean like a game?
Phil Green: Yes, but I'd appreciate it if you promised not to tell anybody it's a game.
Tommy Green: Okay, Pop, sure.
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