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 MetroGoldwynMayer he first came to the publics attention in films including Anchors Aweigh 1945 The Green Years 1946 Gentlemans Agreement 1947 The Boy with Green Hair 1948 and Kim 1950 As a young adult he had a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptation of Compulsion and in 1962 he played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Days 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 Lawrences Sons and Lovers He appeared in supporting roles in such films as Dune 1984 Paris Texas 1984 To Live and Die in LA 1985 Blue Velvet 1986 Beverly Hills Cop II 1987 and Tucker The Man and His Dream 1988 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 Air Force One 1997 The Rainmaker 1997 and The Manchurian Candidate 2004 His television roles include Rear Admiral Albert Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap 19891993 Navy Secretary Edward Sheffield on JAG 20022004 and Brother Cavil on Battlestar Galactica 20042009 Following his roles on Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica he 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Dean Stockwell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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