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Dean Stockwell

1936 – 2021

About this person

Wikipedia Summary

Robert Dean Stockwell was an American actor and collage artist, whose career in film and television spanned 70 years. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), The Secret Garden (1949), and Kim (1950). As a young adult, he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway play Compulsion and its 1959 film version; 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.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
March 5, 1936
North Hollywood
Date of death
November 7, 2021
Whangārei
Citizenship

United States

Occupations & fields
actortelevision actorfilm actorstage actorphotographerfilm director
Awards & honours
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Field and occupation
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