Dean Stockwell Dies: ‘Quantum Leap’ Star, Oscar & Emmy Nominee Was 85

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Dean Stockwell Dies: ‘Quantum Leap’ Star, Oscar & Emmy Nominee Was 85
By Nellie Andreeva
Nellie Andreeva
Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV



Former Quantum Leap star Dean Stockwell, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actor whose stage, film and TV career spanned more than 70 years and 200 credits, has died. He was 85. The actor died peacefully in the early morning of November 7 at home of natural causes, a rep for the family confirmed to Deadline.
Stockwell was born on March 5, 1936, in North Hollywood. By the time he was 7, he was on Broadway, launching a career as a child actor. He appeared in Anchors Aweigh with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly; Kim with Errol Flynn; Gentleman’s Agreement, which landed him a Golden Globe Award; and, most notably, in the controversial 1948 movie The Boy with the Green Hair.



As a young adult in 1957, Stockwell returned to the Broadway stage in Compulsion with Roddy McDowall, who became a lifelong friend. Stockwell reprised his role in the 1959 film version and won his first of two Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Stockwell also starred in Sons and Lovers and Long Day’s Journey Into Night with Katharine Hepburn, which delivered him his second Best Actor prize at Cannes.
Stockwell in 1986’s “Blue Velvet”Everett

Stockwell was on the verge of a career change as he got a real estate license and packed up the family to leave Hollywood when he received a phone call from Harry Dean Stanton, who convinced him to join him on the set of Wim Wenders’ 1984 film Paris, Texas. That led to a string of memorable film roles in Blue Velvet, Dune, Married to the Mob — which earned Stockwell an Academy Award nomination for Supporting Actor — The Rainmaker and The Player.

Stockwell and Scott Bakula, “Quantum Leap”Everett

It was in television where Stockwell delivered one of his signature performances, on the quirky 1989-93 sci-fi TV series Quantum Leap. He played Admiral Al Calavicci opposite Scott Bakula, receiving four Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe Award for his role. Stockwell’s series credits also include the 2000s Battlestar Galactica; JAG, from Quantum Leap creator Don Bellisario; The Tony Danza Show; and NCIS: New Orleans, among others.
Stockwell also starred in a popular 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone called “A Quality of Mercy,” in which he plays a double role of American and Japanese lieutenants on either side pending massacres. The episode also featured a pre-Star Trek Leonard Nimoy.



He also guested on such popular series as Bonanza, Wagon Train, Dr. Kildare, The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, Night Gallery, Columbo, Police Story, Hart to Hart, The A-Team, Miami Vice and Murder, She Wrote. His other film credits include Psych Out, The Dunwich Horror, Tracks, Gardens of Stone, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, The Long Haul, Sandino, Chasers, McHale’s Navy, The Rainmaker and 1984’s Dune.
Stockwell in ‘Twilight Zone’

In recent years, Stockwell, who retired from acting in 2015, did pursue a career change, making art and exhibiting around the U.S. under his full name, Robert Dean Stockwell.

Those close to Stockwell describe him as a rebel who loved to act, to laugh, smoke cigars and play golf.

He is survived by his wife, Joy Stockwell, and their two children, Austin Stockwell and Sophie Stockwell.

 

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Dean Stockwell Remembered: David Lynch Recommends ‘Blue Velvet’ Song ‘Honky Tonk, Part 1’ In Honor; Co-Stars Pay Tribute

David Lynch and others in Hollywood remember Dean Stockwell, the veteran actor who died Sunday at 85.

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Dean Stockwell Remembered: David Lynch Recommends ‘Blue Velvet’ Song ‘Honky Tonk, Part 1’ In Honor; Co-Stars Pay Tribute
By Greg Evans
Greg Evans
Associate Editor/Broadway Critic



Refresh for updates… Dean Stockwell, the Quantum Leap, Blue Velvet and Married to the Mob star who died Sunday at 85, is being remembered today, with filmmaker David Lynch honoring the actor in his usual idiosyncratic way, and lifelong friend Russ Tamblyn offering a poignant goodbye.
Stockwell’s Quantum Leap co-star, Scott Bakula, honored the actor in a statement to Deadline, writing, “I loved him dearly and was honored to know him. He made me a better human being…” Read the entire statement here.
Lynch, who directed Stockwell in the actor’s great latter-career highlight Blue Velvet in 1986, invoked his friend’s name during his daily YouTube feature David Lynch’s Weather Report.



“Here in L.A., a cloudy morning,” Lynch intones in his immediately recognizable drone. “Very still right now, 55 degrees Fahrenheit, 13 Celsius. In honor of the great Dean Stockwell, I’d like to recommend today ‘Honky Tonk, Part 1’ by Bill Doggett. This afternoon it’ll be going up to only 64 degrees Fahrenheit, around 18 Celsius and it’s gonna be cloudy for sure till this afternoon. This afternoon there will be clouds but also a chance for blue skies and golden sunshine along the way. Everyone have a great day.”

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Watch the Lynchian tribute above. And listen to the 1956 R&B classic “Honky Tonk” below.



“Dean,” tweeted actor Tamblyn, who appeared, uncredited, as a child actor in the 1948 movie The Boy with Green Hair starring Stockwell, “My oldest friend. A godfather-figure to my daughter, Amber. Brilliant artist. Loving dad. We met on the set of The Boy with Green Hair, stayed close til his last breath. Rest easy now, brother. Give Dennis a hug from me when you see him on the other side.”

Tamblyn also appeared with his longtime friend in the 1982 film Human Highway, co-directed by Stockwell and Neil Young. The “Dennis” likely is Dennis Hopper, who co-starred with Stockwell in Blue Velvet. Tamblyn’s daughter, actress Amber Tamblyn, retweeted her father’s post.
Lydia Cornell, an actress who appeared in the 1989 pilot episode of Quantum Leap, remembered the “glint of humor in his eyes.”

 

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The Subtle, Sleazy Brilliance of Dean Stockwell in Married to the Mob

The late Dean Stockwell, who passed away on Sunday at 85, turned in a comic performance for the ages in the underappreciated Jonathan Demme comedy.

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The Subtle, Sleazy Brilliance of Dean Stockwell in Married to the Mob
By Matthew Jacobs
Photo: Orion Pictures

In the outrageous shoot-out that concludes Married to the Mob, the underappreciated 1988 Jonathan Demme comedy, one particular moment encapsulates the greatness of Dean Stockwell, who died on Sunday at age 85. It takes place in the honeymoon suite at a kitschy Miami Beach hotel, where the FBI apprehends Stockwell’s sleazy gangster, Tony “The Tiger” Russo. Tony’s exasperated wife, Connie (the great Mercedes Ruehl), comes a-knocking, gun angled in his direction. Tony tries to talk her down, blathering about how the Feds set him up and insisting they still have a future together. She starts firing. He keeps talking. He wields his cocky smile like a weapon; who needs bullets if you have charm? But when Connie almost blasts him in the arm, Demme cuts to a close-up of Stockwell, whose smile has turned to panic. “Connie, that was close,” he says, shocked. Suddenly, Tony’s entire existence is elucidated. Stockwell confirms him to be a man who has never been told “no,” who has never not used his machismo to wriggle out of a crisis. His dread is our satisfaction.

Married to the Mob earned Stockwell a deserved Oscar nomination, his only. The performance imbues the archetypal sovereignty of a mob boss with a shape-shifting fluidity: When attempting to manipulate potential allies, Stockwell softens Tony’s tone and feigns sympathy. He slows his speech so as to appear contemplative, like when he tries to win over the vulnerable mob widow (Michelle Pfeiffer) entangled in his enterprise, not realizing she is the one manipulating him. Tony’s techniques tend to work, until they don’t. With Connie’s confrontation, Tony’s cleverness vanishes. Was it there in the first place? Throughout the movie, Stockwell has been planting seeds for this reversal of fortune. They bloom at the exact moment the women in his crosshairs achieve comeuppance, by which point we’re waiting for his smugness to get the best of him.


During a long conversation I had with Ruehl last year, she unlocked what makes the showdown between Tony and Connie so bewitching. Despite bullets and bodies alike soaring across the room, the scene feels more like a contest of wits than an action climax. “I had gradually moved into the state of mind that woman might be in, and the thing that made that appearance so big was that her focus was small,” Ruehl explained. “It was on [Tony] and shooting off his cojones. You didn’t have to shout that scene. You just had to be a quiet, scary missile. I think we both recognized that underplaying that moment was where the power was.”

Stockwell often stole scenes while barely raising his voice. He understood intuitively that a supporting actor’s job is to support the film around them — something he did without ever submitting a dull performance. In movies and shows as varied as Long Day’s Journey Into Night, To Live and Die in L.A., Beverly Hills Cop II, The Player, Air Force One, Battlestar Galactica, The Manchurian Candidate (which reunited him with Demme), and Paris, Texas, Stockwell remained one of those reliable Hollywood wizards who elevated whatever material he’d been given. When he shows up as a well-dressed dandy in Blue Velvet, his velvety menace sounds like a whisper next to Dennis Hopper’s belligerent shouting. Playing a judge in The Rainmaker, he dresses down Matt Damon by simply accelerating the speed with which he commands Damon to “get the hell out” of his courtroom.
Our final glimpse of Stockwell in Married to the Mob comes after a short dream sequence. Tony is in prison, having nightmares about Connie castrating him with a revolver. He awakens in a sweat and reaches down to make sure his pecker is still there. The relief that washes over Stockwell’s face makes a mockery of Tony, who seems convinced that because his so-called manhood is intact, his life might be too. We know better, in part because Tony is slated to face a grand jury that probably won’t feel compassion for his many misdeeds. Moreover, we know because Stockwell revealed Tony to be a fool drunk on his own hubris — in other words, he revealed Tony to be a man.

 

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TV News: ‘Quantum Leap’ Reboot Picked Up To Series By NBC Update! CANCELED!

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