ACTOR

Dean Stockwell

1936 - 2021

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Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American actor with a career spanning seven decades. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the Thin Man (1947), 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 play Compulsion and its 1959 film version; and in 1962 he 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dean Stockwell has received more than 5,977,410 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Dean Stockwell is the 978th most popular actor (down from 574th in 2019), the 1,730th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,064th in 2019) and the 469th most popular American Actor.

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  • 6.0M

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  • 59.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dean Stockwell ranks 978 out of 13,578. Before him are Stephen Boyd, Fran Drescher, Frank Oz, Fred Ward, John Forsythe, and Lou Ferrigno. After him are Conrad Bain, Lee Sun-kyun, Ving Rhames, Barbara Bel Geddes, Basil Rathbone, and Sacha Baron Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Dean Stockwell ranks 96. Before him are Leonel Sánchez, Jean M. Auel, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Héctor Elizondo, Don DeLillo, and Moussa Traoré. After him are A. B. Yehoshua, Wolf Biermann, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Wilfried Martens, Roy Emerson, and Ken Mattingly. Among people deceased in 2021, Dean Stockwell ranks 85. Before him are Hannu Mikkola, Bertrand Tavernier, Gottfried Böhm, Abdelkader Bensalah, Dušan Ivković, and Tanya Roberts. After him are Vicente Fernández, Helen McCrory, Kenneth Kaunda, Robert H. Grubbs, Libuše Šafránková, and Djivan Gasparyan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dean Stockwell ranks 1,730 out of 20,380. Before him are Lou Ferrigno (1951), Husband E. Kimmel (1882), Chief Seattle (1786), Lance Armstrong (1971), Edward Snowden (1983), and Mark Felt (1913). After him are John Densmore (1944), Roger Ebert (1942), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Saul Kripke (1940), Alan Greenspan (1926), and Mitch McConnell (1942).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dean Stockwell ranks 469. Before him are Michael Biehn (1956), Patricia Neal (1926), Fran Drescher (1957), Fred Ward (1942), John Forsythe (1918), and Lou Ferrigno (1951). After him are Ving Rhames (1959), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922), Stephen Lang (1952), Emilio Estevez (1962), Billy Crystal (1948), and Lloyd Bridges (1913).

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Television and Movie Roles

Paris, Texas
Walt
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Jul 16th 19848.1 / 10
Blue Velvet
Ben
Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.
Sep 19th 19867.6 / 10
Quantum Leap
Admiral Albert 'Al' Calavicci
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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