Ravens galleries in Ranchos de Taos (2004) and in downtown Taos (2008)]. He had a semi-regular part on Battlestar Galactica from 2006 as John Cavil. These two very different actors had the kind of chemistry creators and producers hope for but can't manufacture. [22] He reprised the role in the 1959 film version, for which he and co-stars Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman shared the 1959 Cannes Film Award for Best Actor. Dennis Hopper is a marvelous director."[18]. The scene where the two men finally get five minutes to pitch their movie is high comedy, both getting so swept away by their pitch they are almost in tears. Stockwell appears in just one scene which culminates in him lip synching Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in one of the scariest rooms in history. All Rights Reserved. [8], Fox borrowed him again to play Gregory Peck's son in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), a film which Stockwell "didn't like doing at all, because it was so serious. Stockwell himself said, "A dear friend of mine, Dennis Hopper, said, 'Well, thats the end of his career' when he found out I was going to do a series. (Wikimedia Commons) Stockwell was born on March 5th, 1936, and was on Broadway by the age of seven. Agent Jay Schwartz said Stockwell died of natural causes at home Sunday. He was 85 years old. We could have had the opening in his house. 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. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors. "[13], He played an orphaned runaway longing to go to sea in Deep Waters (1948). "[13], He also had roles in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) from Coppola, Smokescreen (1988), the Brazilian The Long Haul (1989), the reboot of The Twilight Zone, Buying Time (1989), and Limit Up (1989).[28]. Much later, Lynch confessed to Dean Stockwell, "If I looked a little strange when you walked into the commissary, it was because I thought you were dead.. As of 2015, Stockwell remained a resident of Taos. Sowhen I saw the plate glass window here facing the west, which captures the gorgeous sunsets of Taos and the lighting in Taos is a special thing. ga('ads.send', { Whether you live in Taos, want to live in Taos, or like to peer into life in Taos from a safe distance, LiveTaos offers fresh, community-sourced content for all comers. His quiet presence in every moment of every scene is crucial to the tragedy unfolding around him. [13], During the mid-1970s, he designed the distinctive cover of Neil Young's album American Stars 'n Bars (1976).[23][25]. Studying him, and seeing that kind of alternate mind using art to break open your head was something we were all craving. His works include intricate sculptures using ordinary dice. His mother, Nina Olivette, had a career in vaudeville before settling down to have children. He established a career as a child actor in the 1940s and scored a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Email us at exclusive@the-sun.com or call 212 416 4552. The couple remained together for 23 years before eventually divorcing in 2004. The North Hollywood native also found major success after joining the cast of 'Battlestar Galactica' in 2006 and starred in the series until 2009. Dean's first marriage was to actress Millie Perkins, whom he wed on April 15, 1960. He was in episodes of Hunter and Murder, She Wrote, and the films Gardens of Stone (1987) (directed by Francis Ford Coppola), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues (1987), The Time Guardian (1987), Banzai Runner (1987), and The Blue Iguana (1987). The acting legend retired from acting in 2015 and sought a career change in recent years. Stockwell graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, and attended the University of California, Berkeley for a year before dropping out. During the series' run, Stockwell appeared in Catchfire (1990) directed by Hopper, Citizen Soldier (1990, originally shot in 1976), Sandino (1991), Son of the Morning Star (1992), The Player (1992), Shame (1992), Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Friends and Enemies (1992), and Fatal Memories (1992). In the "it's a small world" category, Bradford Dillman played Edmund in the same production.) Dean Stockwell and wife Carol Belle at Wizard World Toronto 2012 I find this pic quite endearing. Stockwell walked away again in 1965. He had roles in the comedy Mr. Wrong (1996), Naked Souls (1996), Twilight Man (1996), Unabomber: The True Story (1996), Last Resort (1996), Close to Danger (1997), Living in Peril (1997), McHale's Navy (1997), Midnight Blue (1997), Air Force One (1997), The Shadow Men (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), and Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998). The actor Dean Stockwell, who has died aged 85, enjoyed periods of acclaim punctuated by bouts of sometimes self-inflicted . pg.acq.push(function() { 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. There were a few films that I enjoyed, they were comedies, they were not important films, weren't very successful, so I was always pretty much known as a serious kid. He was then borrowed by RKO Pictures to play the title role in The Boy with Green Hair (1948) directed by Joseph Losey, a notorious flop for the Dore Schary regime. His older brother, Guy Stockwell, also was an actor who appeared in over 30 films and television shows throughout his lifetime. Stockwell had no desire to explain the mystery. ga('ads.send', { Stockwell was a multidimensional actor who was also recognized for his work in film, earning an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as Tony 'The Tiger' Russo in 1988's 'Married To The Mob'. Oh boy. He reunited with Jonathan Demme for "The Manchurian Candidate" (where he has one closeup that's among the best work he'd ever done). He had supporting roles in The Arnelo Affair (1947), The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) (as Janet Leigh's brother), and Song of the Thin Man (1947), billed fourth as the son of William Powell and Myrna Loy's characters. The year was 1982. [11][12], Stockwell's father was appearing on Broadway in Oklahoma! If you spend time with this art, and you spend time with Dean, you start getting a much deeper sense of what hes up to as an artist; and then from there, ones own perspective can run wild. Quantum Leap and Blue Velvet star Dean Stockwell has died. Legendary film and television actor Dean Stockwell has died at the age of 85. I havent seen anything like this before! and I think there are going to be a lot of people who want to start seeing this exist more oftenthroughout Taos. RR: And on top of that the printing ability everything iscreated right from his own studio, the prints, everything. He got his real estate license. media-tech companies with hubs around the world. The screen star passed away peacefully at home from natural . (Even with the show's unexpected cancellation, it has one of the most moving finales in television, where the great Bruce McGillwho also appeared in the Quantum Leap pilot, albeit as a different characterembodies the more spiritual aspects of show's concept.) Those five seasons cast a long shadow. In the mid-1960s, Stockwell dropped out of show business, becoming active in the Topanga Canyon hippie subculture as a close friend of visual artists George Herms and Wallace Berman, fellow child actor and "dropout" Russ Tamblyn, and musician Neil Young. Dean Stockwell, the former child star who became a key figure in the Hollywood counter-culture and enjoyed late success in popular TV shows, has died aged 85. His impish, dimpled looks and tousled brown hair combined with genuine acting talent kept him on the box office front line for more than a decade. And I said, 'What are you kidding me? He also made a fewgood movies: "The Careless Years" (1957), an angsty "Splendor in the Grass" precursor, where he is the personification of 1950s teenage sexual frustration; "Sons and Lovers," Jack Cardiff's adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel; and 1959's "Compulsion," a telling of the Leopold and Loeb story with Stockwell as one of the young murderers, and Orson Welles as the fictionalized Clarence Darrow. In each episode, Bakula's "Sam"a scientist with the body of a Baywatch hunk, is "quantum leaped" into a person in another era who needs a problem solved, a wrong made right. Robert Dean Stockwell, internationally known as Dean Stockwell, opens a solo art show at El Monte Sagrados Grand Bohemian Gallery this weekend. Like Elizabeth Taylorone of his classmates in the "little red schoolhouse" on the MGM lotDean Stockwell was a star, with featured roles in movies like "Anchors Aweigh" (his second film), "Gentleman's Agreement" (where he and John Garfield walk off with the movie), "The Boy with Green Hair" (an anti-war film with a memorable poster), "The Secret Garden" (where his temper tantrum scene with Margaret O'Brien is worth the price of admission), and "Kim" (where he went toe-to-toe with Errol Flynn). Robert Dean Stockwell, a former Taos resident who starred in numerous films throughout his career, died of natural causes on Nov. 7, according to his wife, Joy Marchenko. David Lynch asked Dean Stockwell to play Ben, the creepy pan-sexual pimp and drug dealer who appears in only one scene in the film. [5][6] He was the younger son of Elizabeth "Betty" (Veronica) Stockwell, a vaudeville actress,[7][8][9] and Harry Stockwell, an actor and lyric baritone singer. It was a huge hit. }) As well . Collages and Bones Opening Reception He was in Restraining Order (1999), Water Damage (1999), The Venice Project (1999), Rites of Passage (1999), and What Katy Did (1999), Years passed before Stockwell made the bold move to approach David Lynch at that commissary in Mexico. And because of that that room just totally works. RR: Well, Dean has these dice pieces hes been creating, and to me theyre bizarre. Following his roles on Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica, he appeared at numerous science fiction conventions. People Ive brought in forlittle sneak previews arewalking in going What is that? Thereafter, Stockwell segued into television for several years until resurfacing as a mature actor in Richard Fleischer's Compulsion (1959), (based on the infamous Leopold & Loeb murder case), co-starring with Bradford Dillman as one of the two young killers, and Orson Welles. In 1957, he starred as Judd Steiner in the Broadway adaptation of Compulsion, based on the Leopold and Loeb story. He was 85. 02:40 PST, Nov 9, 2021. Perkins and Stockwell appeared together on 'Wagon Train' in the episode titled "The Will Santee Story". Delilah Belle Hamlin puts on a sultry display while flashing her cleavage . His vaudevillian father was a replacement Curly in the original production of "Oklahoma!". Mary/James/Jamie Tyrone are dazzlingly difficult roles, but Edmund is one of the most challenging for an actor, because it seems like he doesn't do all that much. The 83-year-old actress and Stockwell wed in 1960, and divorced two years later in 1962. of Children: 2 Son: Austin Stockwell Deal for James Stewart as 'Harvey' Star on Foot; Shearer Return Pending JL: Im hoping and this is one of the other main reasons I wanted to do this show so badly that its going to inspire a whole new generation of artists to think out of the box. Stockwell had the lead in a biker movie, The Loners (1972), the last film of Sam Katzman, which Stockwell called "a mess",[13] and horror comedy The Werewolf of Washington (1973), the script for which he said "had a brilliant edge to it. }); His art is known under his full name, Robert Dean Stockwell. For perspective: this was just seven years after Lynch told Stockwell, "I thought you were dead." Photograph: Warner Bros/Allstar The veteran American actor, star of Blue Velvet and Quantum Leap, has died aged 85. He was married to his wife Millie Perkins from 1960 until their divorce in 1962. In 1951 Stockwell had a lead role with Joel McCrea in a Western at Universal, Cattle Drive. Posted on August 3, 2007 by sheila. reporters on a platform technologically tailored to meet the needs of the modern reader. Robert Dean Stockwell, internationally known as Dean Stockwell, opens a solo art show at El Monte Sagrado's Grand Bohemian Gallery this weekend. He had a supporting role in a Western, Gun for a Coward (1957), and the lead role in a low-budget teen melodrama, The Careless Years (1957), the feature directorial debut of Arthur Hiller. His acting debut was in 1945, in a musical film called Anchors Aweigh. Free! In the '50s and '60s, Stockwell was heavily involved in the Los Angeles art scene (featured in the documentary "The Cool School"), and he continued to make and show his artcollage, assemblage, photography through his long life. Stockwell told Julian Schnabel in a 1990 interview for Interview magazine: "The character really just came out of my imagination and out of a desire to make him more extreme than Dennis' character, who was the weirdest antagonist ever in a film. David Lynch was in Mexico, in the end stages of preparations for "Dune." But with all the scary crap that happens in that movie, that scene - and its absurdity - with everyone in it obeying a set of . He established a career as a child actor in the 1940s and scored a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its really mind blowing to see how much work. He gained popularity working with films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and Kim (1950). },false) He was also a decent tenor whose voice was used for the part of Prince Charming in Disney's Snow White and the Seven . I got those kind of roles and I didn't care for them very much. 11. RR:Dean speaks about this all the time in fact, daily about the mystical magical power of Taos. Notifications can be turned off anytime from browser settings. Counterpoint A Jim Gilbert Art Exhibition, Monolith on the Mesa: Celebrate Festival Season in Taos, Wild Mercy: A Journey Home with Mirabai Starr, AMP presents Corey Harris and Cedric Watson. Robert Dean Stockwell was an American film and television actor has an estimated Net Worth around $5 Million in 2021. After that, Stockwell's career dried up. Great directors remembered him now. And there almost always was. Hes just as important to the show as anything in there. According to Deadline, his . He was 85. Swackhamer Writers Peter S. Fischer Richard Levinson William Link Stars Angela Lansbury Lloyd Bochner Miles Chapin See production, box office & company info People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Professional Career The longtime star is survived by his ex-wife Joy and their two children, Austin and Sophie. Veteran actor Dean Stockwell, best known for playing Admiral 'Al' Calavicci opposite Scott Bakula's Dr. Sam Beckett in NBC's sci-fi dramedy Quantum Leap, died Sunday of natural causes. In 1962, he was cast as Edmund Tyrone in Sidney Lumet's film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, alongside Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, and Jason Robards (Robards reprising the role he played on Broadway. Having won a Golden Globe Award as Best Juvenile Actor for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) (on loan-out to 20th Century Fox), Stockwell went on to play the title role in an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1950). His father appeared in New York productions of Carousel and Oklahoma!, and was the voice of Prince Charming in Disney's film Snow White. By this point, Stockwell had blossomed into a beautiful young man, with Montgomery Clift's dramatic coloring, pale skin, thick black hair. Continuing acting as a young adult, Stockwell earned his first lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of 'Compulsion'. He was clearly exhausted as the day went on. Stockwell was born and. [13], The studio cast him in a small role in The Valley of Decision (1945), a popular melodrama. Dean Stockwell and wife Carol Belle at Wizard World Toronto 2012. "I thought you were dead" is indicative of just how far out of the business Stockwell was in the 1970s and early 1980s. Who are Art Metrano's wives? Stockwell guest starred on Mannix, The FBI (again), Night Gallery, Orson Welles' Great Mysteries, and Mission: Impossible and had the lead in some TV movies, Paper Man (1971) and The Failing of Raymond (1971) as well as a support part in Adventures of Nick Carter (1972). Dean Stockwell: 10 Roles to Remember Him by From 'Quantum Leap' to 'Blue Velvet'. In his final days, Stockwell was said to be married to a woman named Carol Belle. He said in an interview included in the Quantum Leap box set, "I mean, there are some actors, I dont know how they do it, theyre luckythey get in these big movies, and they have scenes at the beginning, and here, and there, and next thing you know theyre in Hawaii or somewhere for six months, on the same movie, picking up a check every week. As a child, he starred in multiple films such as The Green Years and Gentleman's Agreement. It was very unique in my career, and Im very very proud of it.". Dean Stockwell - best known for his role as Admiral Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap - dies aged 85 after 70 year career . At the pinnacle of his new success, Stockwell shocked everyone by signing up to do a television series called Quantum Leap. Television didn't have the cache it does now. Stockwell later called it "the favorite part I've ever had in a film. document.querySelector("#ads").addEventListener('click',function(){ Its why they stay here, why they love it this place IS art. Last modified on Tue 9 Nov 2021 13.03 EST. And Dennis, who is almost always right, was wrong.". If all of this weren't enough, Stockwell took a photograph of California artist Wallace Berman which is included in the collage on the Beatles' famous Sgt. Ive been studying Deans art since 2004, maybe 2003. Stockwell's life featured multiple "disappearances," some of which were involuntary, but some of which were conscious choices. Due to Stockwell's later mainstream success, this periodfrom 1957 to 1962is often overlooked, and it's one of the most interesting phases in his career. Stockwell came a long way from gleaming adorably up at Frank Sinatra in "Anchors Aweigh," from writhing around as William Powell spanked him, from ripping down the curtains around his bed in "The Secret Garden." Dean was eventually spotted by a talent scout, and, on the strength of his performance, was signed by MGM in 1945. He was 85. Born on March 5, 1936, Dean Stockwell began his career as a child actor signed with MGM. What did that was Wim Wenders' dreamlike "Paris, Texas." The role won him a Golden Globe Award in 1990 and a new generation of fans. Stockwell's newfound joy of acting, in improvisation and off-the-cuff creation, is one of the reasons Quantum Leapeven with some of the now-quaint special effectsis still so compulsively watchable. He also earned himself even more fans when he joined the cast of Battlestar Galactica in 2006, playing John Cavil in the show until 2009. He nonetheless managed to make a comeback with a co-starring role in the Wim Wenders road movie Paris, Texas (1984). Stockwell married actress Millie Perkins on April 15, 1960. (Alan Greth/The Associated Press) Dean Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age in the sci-fi series Quantum Leap and in a string of indelible . His last film role of note in the early 60s was as Edmund Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). Schallert, Edwin. Nope, it was his wife! He was born in California in 1936 to artistic parents, performers but not really "in the business." He guest starred on Thirty-Minute Theatre in Britain, The FBI, and Bonanza, and played the lead in AIP's The Dunwich Horror (1970) with Sandra Dee. [3] He reunited with Bakula in a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans, titled "Chasing Ghosts," and the following year appeared in the film Entertainment (2015). Stockwell was a candidate, and he was offered the role in a potential James Dean "biopic" (which he turned down, sensing, correctly, that it would be a lose-lose project). hitType: 'event', reporters on a platform technologically tailored to meet the needs of the modern reader. He subsequently had roles in The Player (1992), Air Force One (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004). He had just done 'Married to the Mob'it was a big film hit!" Theres an equal and opposite reaction for everything Newton said that, and it was proven to be true. Dean Stockwell, who just died at the age of 85, was not offended. And of course it means something different to everybody. There needs to be an alternate side thats opening up, to get people out of their heads. I stole it and I told her one time and she laughed her head off when I told her. Every choice Stockwell madethe mostly sleepy half-closed eyes, the way they suddenly open wide, showing the whites, like a shark (or like Carol Burnett), the eyebrows lifted in disdain, his lips twisted up in a mild snarl, the unexplained ominous bandage on his handwas designed to highlight the strangeness of the character, and his potential for unpredictable danger. ga('ads.send', { Pepper album cover. And to know how much time and effort he has put into each piece. With a well-regarded acting career spanning roughly seven decades, Dean Stockwell was far from an unfamiliar face. media-tech companies with hubs around the world. Later in the decade, he made a gleeful comeback in low budget psychedelic counterculture (Psych-Out (1968)) biker films (The Loners (1972)) and horror comedies (The Werewolf of Washington (1973)). Its all a creation of Dean, from start to finish. By the early 80s, work opportunities had become scarcer and Stockwell was compelled to briefly sideline as a real estate broker. He later had signature roles in movies like. On December 15, 1981, Stockwell married his second wife, Joy Marchenko, a textiles expert who worked in Morocco. By this time Stockwell had moved to Taos, New Mexico, and was depressed about the state of his career, turning to real estate to pay the bills. let gads_event; The Rainmaker (1997) More than a decade later, Dean Stockwell was promoted from a corrupt attorney to a corrupt judge, as the honorable Harvey Hale in The Rainmaker. Godfather of Amber Tamblyn. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheSunUS and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSunUS, 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. 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Stockwell starred alongside Scott Bakula in all 97 episodes over five seasons of the sci-fi show from 1989 to 1993, earning four Primetime Emmy nominations and even Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 1990 Golden Globes. "I thought you were dead" is indicative of just how far out of the business Stockwell was in the 1970s and early 1980s. Where had he been all this time? Last picture update of Dean and Carole thanks Dean Stockwell - Official^^ By Variety. His role in the Edward James Olmos-led series and also his iconic role in 'Quantum Leap' made him a regular fixture at sci-fi conventions across the country. Nov. 9, 2021, 5:39 AM PST / Source: Reuters. RR:I think Dean is very modest about his work. He was 85. He also played Nick and Nora Charles' son in "Song of the Thin Man" and had the great honor of being spanked by William Powell. He tried another regular series, Street Gear (1995) but it only lasted 13 episodes. 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