Warren Albert Stevens was an American stage screen and television actor A founding member of The Actors Studio in New York Stevens received notice on Broadway in the late 1940s and thereafter was offered a Hollywood contract at 20th Century Fox His first Broadway role was in The Life of Galileo his first movie role followed in The Frogmen As a young studio contract player Stevens had little choice of material and he appeared in films that included Phone Call from a Stranger Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie and Gorilla at Large A memorable movie role was that of the illfated Doc Ostrow in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet He also had supporting roles in The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart and Intent to Kill Despite occasional parts in big films Stevens was unable to break out consistently into Alist movies so he carved out a career in television as a journeyman dramatic actor He costarred as Lt William Storm in Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers a prime time adventure series set in India Stevens also provided the voice of John Bracken in season one of Brackens World He played the role of Elliot Carson in the daytime series Return to Peyton Place during its twoyear run He appeared in over 150 prime time shows from the 1950s to the early 1980s including Golden Age anthology series Actors Studio Campbell Playhouse The Web Justice Philco Television Playhouse Studio One The United States Steel Hour Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Route 66 Mysteries Hawaiian Eye Perry Mason The Untouchables Climax Checkmate Surfside 6 77 Sunset Strip Behind Closed Doors I Spy The Man from UNCLE Ironside The Mod Squad Mannix Cannon Griff and Mission Impossible as well as Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Twilight Zone One Step Beyond and Mission Impossible He also starred in a variety of Westerns Laramie The Rebel The Man Called Shenandoah Wagon Train The Alaskans Gunsmoke Bonanza Daniel Boone The Virginian Rawhide and Have Gun Will Travel as well as Tombstone Territory and Stoney Burke In 1970 he appeared as Paul Carson on The Men From Shiloh rebranded name for The Virginian in the episode titled Hannah Stevens appearance in the 1955 movie Robbers Roost introduced him to Richard Boone who hired him for a continuing television role on The Richard Boone Show an awardwinning NBC anthology series which lasted for the 19631964 season In his later years Stevens appearances were infrequent He gueststarred in ER in March 2006 and had two roles in 2007
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