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Dean Stockwell


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 such as 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 played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of Compulsion and in 1962, Stockwell 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 appeared in supporting roles in such films as Dune (1984), Paris, Texas (1984), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Blue Velvet (1986), and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). 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), and Air Force One (1997).

His television roles include playing 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, Stockwell 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.



Stockwell was one of those actors whose face you know, but can't really place anywhere because he did literally hundreds of minor roles and guest appearances in TV series.

I did watch Quantum Leap as kid and due the fact that when we got VCR I for long time had only three tapes (before I truly decided to start collecting moves and stuff), one of the films I watched at least dozen times was Beverly Hills Cop II.
And Dune in my favorite book, if I'm not any more fond of the Lynch movie than most; Stockwell was acceptable as doctor Yueh.

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