Dean Stockwell is DEAD to me

Best known for Battlestar Galactica..

He was a cute kid and quite handsome in his youth. RIP.

Don't forget his Oscar nomination for Blue Velvet.

That said, I remember been surprised a while back that he was still alive; I could've sworn he died years ago.

A child star at MGM, he was in such prestigious films as "Gentleman's Agreement".

Oscar nominated in 1988 for "Married to the Mob".

R3, "Don't forget his Oscar nomination for Blue Velvet."

He was not nominated.

I hope he was well protected as a child at MGM.

He is what I would think how James Dean would have aged like.

The Boy With Green Hair.

Whoops! My bad.

It’s Tony, hey, Tony, no phony baloney The Tiger Yeah, he’s the paisan the sun always shines on

Great timing.

Now the OP of this linked thread can breathe a sigh of relief.

Anchors Aweigh

He looked weird and bewildered in Lynch's DUNE.

He played gay in COMPULSION (59).

He was wonderful in Paris Texas.

Did he have a big dick?

from Compulsion (with Bradford Dillman & Martin Milner)

I loved him in every role I saw him in, but he was especially delightful in BSG.

BSG?

Great character actor.

Never had an awkward phase. He was always good looking.

Predictions for the next two deaths-Drake and Betty White.

I always got him and Bradford Dillman mixed up.

WTF, R23? Who?!

Anyway, Dean Stockwell was best known for The Boy With Green Hair, The Dunwich Horror, and the episode of Columbo called “Troubled Waters”.

I enjoyed him in:

As the Secretary of Defense in Air Force One. He fought with VP Glenn Close the entire movie and it was great.

As Judge Harvey Hale in The Rainmaker. He was such an ass. His death halfway through the movie left a presence.

In Blue Velvet. What a fucking creep, but it was one of the best scenes in the movie.

Married to the Mob is a funny movie that he is in as well.

[quote] but he was especially delightful in BSG.

Dean was on Broke Straight Guys?!

Dean was amazing in BSG. His hatred for humans was palpable in every scene. And he made all the mystical stuff zing.

B…something Stargate

I always confused him with Brandon de Wilde. And then there was his brother Guy Stockwell.

Quantum Leap forever

His scene in “sons and lovers” something about the daffodils painting for his dying mother was so brilliantly sad. I loved it. I hope I’m remembering it correctly. I haven’t seen it for many years and never read the book.

He said once Errol Flynn got him laid for the first time

he left the acting biz 3 or so times......... very unusual career / his fuck it attitude really comes through

I was going to say I liked him in "The Ugly Dachshund", but I guess I got my Deans mixed up.

Dean Stockwell was beautiful as a kid/teenager.

He went from a very cute child actor to a very handsome young man.

Aww, that’s a shame.

He was a good Superman.

IMO he was staggeringly beautiful when he was a young man.

His father Harry Stockwell, was the voice of Disney's Prince Charming.

He was the young boy in the Secret Garden.

Here's a hot pic of him

Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman were terrific as the Leopold and Loeb-like murderous pair in "Compulsion."

Stockwell was married for a brief time to cute-as-a-button Millie Perkins from "The Diary of Anne Frank," while Dillman, as we know, was married forever to '50s supermodel Suzy Parker.

Did Dean Stockwell have acne scars that were sometimes brushed out of photos? Seem to be there in some and not others.

In the photo at r40, he looks like the love child of James Dean and Brad Davis.

Excellent child actor. In the early 50s he dropped out of acting and worked as a mailboy at Rockefeller Center using the alias Rudy Stocker. Later he worked on the railroad in New Jersey and Texas. He returned to acting in 1956.

RIP

With Jane Powell and Elizabeth Taylor

Roddy knew everybody.

Dean's older brother Guy was a hunk, and then he got fat.

R45 Nice photo. Roddy even appeared in Quantum Leap decades later although I don't recall them sharing any scenes together.

I cant believe he was that old.

.......

Errol Flynn got him laid at the age of 14?

Dean rocked Quantum Leap !!

R45 Dean Stockwell & Roddy McDowell starred in the Broadway play Compulsion (1957) before it was made into a film (1959).

Loved him in Blue Velvet.

Why didn't Roddy do the movie, r52?

As asshole like silk.

He was in the phenomenal film version of Long Day's Journey Into Night (the other three actors were Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson and Jason Robards).

I just watched Dean Stockwell in RAPTURE, an odd and moving film. He is very good in it.

Does the film of COMPULSION hold up? It never seems to be on TV or stream. I wonder if the original novel by Meyer Levin holds up. It was on our family bookshelves when I was growing up way back in the 1950s.

She wasn't very old. Sad. May she RIP.

[quote] Dean's older brother Guy was a hunk,

That’s pronounced Guy.

Was he bi?

R58, it's on YouTube.

He was a very cute boy who had the good luck to turn into a handsome young man. He's wonderful in LDJIN.

[quote] Did Dean Stockwell have acne scars that were sometimes brushed out of photos?

There does appear to be some scaring. It could be acne related or even old chicken pox scars. I'm 68 and I still have chicken pox scars on my temples just below the hairline from when I was 6 months old.

[quote] There does appear to be some scaring.

Eeeeeek!!

R65 😊👍

I wonder if Dean shaved his chest early in his career when he'd appear shirtless occasionally. It's unusual for one brother to have a magnificent pelt of fur on his chest and the other one nary a strand.

OP- I glanced at your thread sentence and for a sec I thought it said the HUNKY Scott Baio

I doubt it, r67.

For one thing, back then shaving your body hair was virtually unheard of. Secondly, the brother combination is not odd at all.

I’m exceptionally hairy; my brother not so. I have a full beard; my brother can’t grow a beard for shit. It comes in splotchy and raggedy.

I'm an italian catholic(at least once upon a time.)

When I try to grow a beard I look like a rabbi.

Oy!

Has Scott Bakula commented or shown his pendulous dong?

RIP.

Scott gave a lengthy message on his Instagram or Twitter .

It was lovely. 😢🥺

Here it is 😕

Beautiful tribute. Bakula is one of the nicest guys in the business.

[quote]For one thing, back then shaving your body hair was virtually unheard of.

Nonsense. Look at how many actors in movies shaved their armpits. Chests were also shaved.

Can you give some examples?

Johnny Weissmuller and Lex Barker for starters. And there was no reason for Tarzan King of the Apes to be shirtless.

Jeff Chandler and William Holden, too. Both hirsute but often shaved.

Thanks, r79.

Unfortunately, without an edit feature, I was concerned my question would’ve come off as a challenge, not that I was genuinely curious, which I was.

[quote] Best known for "Quantum Leap" with hunky Scott Bakula

No.

One Oscar and 16 nominations for this—

He's paired with a woman who has the same face as him

[quote] Does the film of COMPULSION hold up? It never seems to be on TV or stream.

R58 My memory is that the movie was mostly used for Orson Welles to ham it up big time.

It was bold of him to play gay in Compulsion.

I don't remember 'Compulsion' as being explicit at all.

It seemed as vague as 'Rope'.

Oy. I meant to write hairless, not shirtless at r79.

Anyway, you'll all get my point. Most actors were required to shave their body hair for shirtless scenes in the 1920s and 30s with just a few getting by natural in the 40s. But even in the early1950s (Bill Holden in PICNIC, e.g.), there was still some shaving. Just something about chest hair, I guess, that was considered unwholesome and un-American and, god forbid, sexually threatening.

The mysteries of women have weighed heavily on my mind till this day.

Was he the last star from the golden days of MGM? By golden days I mean pre-1950.

He and Anthony Perkins took the Serious Young Man roles post-James Dean.

R88, Angela Lansbury is still left. In the 1940's she was in MGM films "Gaslight" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray". (Oscar-nominated for both).

Stockwell played a father with a gay son (DL fave Jason Behr) in "Rites of Passage" (1999).

Clark Gable was said to have brought back the hirsute look after appearing bare chested in “It Happened One Night”, though from what I recall, hairless chests were more common than not onscreen in the olden days

Jeff Hunter’s shaved armpits as Jesus were much commented upon.

William Holden's furry chest would sometimes be shaved and sometimes not.

Ann Blyth who starred in The Great Caruso, The Student Prince, Rose Marie and Kismet is still with us. And Russ Tamblyn was featured in some big MGM films.

Dean Stockwell transitioned to adult roles but Darell and Dwayne Hickman didn't.

June Lockhart is still hanging in there at 96.

She appeared in several MGM films in the 1940s, "Keep Your Powder Dry", "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "Son of Lassie".

You know you're gay if you are more aware of Guy Stockwell's physique than of his brother's career.

How about his porn cousin Ray? BTW, does anybody know his real name?

June Lockhart plays the adult Elizabeth Taylor in The White Cliffs of Dover and Liz has been dead 10 years.

Ain't that a kick in the head?

Angela and Dean finally worked together in season 4 of "Murder She Wrote".

Claude Jarmon Jr. and Arlene Dahl are still with us.

Carleton Carpenter is 95 and holding.

Marsha Hunt is the sole survivor from MGM's 20th anniversary star roster, and only Angela Lansbury, Arlene Dahl and Claude Jarman Jr are still around from MGM's 25th anniversary shot.

Not sure how Margaret O'Brien missed both MGM anniversary shoots but of course she's still appearing in movies.

[quote] Angela and Dean finally worked together in season 4 of "Murder She Wrote".

Angela who?

Angela Cartwright, Rose.

I totally shipped Sam and Al.