Paul Stewart March 13 1908 February 17 1986 was an American character actor known for his tough guttural voice He frequently portrayed villains and mobsters throughout his lengthy career Born Paul Sternberg in New York City Stewart graduated from Columbia University and made his Broadway theatre debut in the play Two Seconds in 1931 A few years later he met Orson Welles who invited him to join the Mercury Theatre where he participated in the notorious 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds He was a founding member of AFTRA Sternbergs many screen credits include Citizen Kane Twelve OClock High Champion Kiss Me Deadly The Bad and the Beautiful In Cold Blood The Day of the Locust SOB and WC Fields and Me in which he portrayed Florenz Ziegfeld On television he appeared in Playhouse 90 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Alcoa Theatre Dr Kildare Wagon Train Gunsmoke It Takes a Thief Mannix The Name of the Game McMillan amp Wife Mission ImpossibleThe Rockford Files Lou Grant and Remington Steele among many others He also directed some television episodes among them Little Girl Lost from the Twilight Zone Stewart was married to big band singeractress Peg La Centra from 1939 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 77 He was characterized in the 1999 television movie RKO 281
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