Dean StockwellFilmography

Born:: March 5, 1936 in North Hollywood, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Fans of the science fiction television series Quantum Leap will know supporting and character actor Dean Stockwell as the scene-stealing, cigar chomping, dry-witted, and cryptic hologram Al. But to view him only in that role is to see one part of a multi-faceted career that began when Stockwell...Read More

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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Synopsis: Edward James Olmos directs this feature-length drama that tells the story of the Peabody-winning series -- from the perspective of the Cylons. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan finds man's creations plotting to destroy their makers, but when their genocidal scheme leaves survivors. Now, two Cylons Read More

2009
The Cool School

Actors: Walter Hopps, John Baldessari, Dennis Hopper, Robert Irwin, Jeff Bridges, Frank Gehry, Edward Ruscha, Dean Stockwell, David LaFaille

Synopsis: New York City has long been regarded as the heart of the American art movement, but near the end of the 1940s, as the post-war rise of Abstract Expressionism became the new wave of painting in the United States, a small but determined band of painters, curators, and collectors on the West Coast Read More

3/28/08
Battlestar Galactica: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1

Synopsis: A rescue mission to Caprica to save the humans trapped there accidentally leads to the discovery of a habitable planet. Elsewhere, Tyrol is haunted by nightmares. ~ Michael Chant, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Battlestar Galactica: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2

Synopsis: Laura and Baltar lock horns over the colonization of the newly discovered planet. Elsewhere, a Cylon brings Galactica a message from the Cylon leadership. ~ Michael Chant, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
What Katy Did

Actors: Megan Follows, Alison Pill, Kevin Whately, Dean Stockwell

2005
Buffalo Soldiers

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Elizabeth McGovern, Gabriel Mann

Synopsis: Australian director Gregor Jordan makes his sophomore effort with this tale about crooked U.S. soldiers based in Germany during the waning days of the cold war. Special Fourth Class soldier Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) guards against the Soviets while on duty, and rips off the U.S. military while off Read More

7/25/03
CQ

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Élodie Bouchez, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: The feature debut of Roman Coppola (son of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola) centers around an international film crew making a low-budget, Barbarella-like feature in Paris in 1969. The film is called Dragonfly and is being directed by Andrzej (Gérard Depardieu), who wishes to make a Read More

5/24/02
Face To Face

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Alex Rocco, Joe Viterelli, Thomas Calabro, Scott Baio

Synopsis: Three guys from New Jersey decide they need some male bonding with their fathers -- whether their fathers like it or not -- in this independent comedy. When his grandfather dies, Richie Gallo (Scott Baio) finds himself thinking about his relationship with his family, and realizes that he barely Read More

2001
Inferno

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Dean Stockwell, Janet Gunn

Synopsis: B-movie filmmaker Dusty Nelson directs the 2001 action-disaster film Inferno. The Earth's air is polluted by solar activity, causing much of the planet to burst into flames. Dallas Cowboy cheerleader Janet Gunn stars as heroine Darcy Hamilton. Also starring Jeff Fahey and Dean Stockwell, Inferno Read More

2001
The Quickie

Actors: Vladimir Mashkov, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: A gangster finds his professional, family, and romantic lives all taking unexpected turns in this offbeat suspense drama. Oleg (Vladimir Mashkov) is a kingpin in the Russian Mafia who has decided to get out of the business and move to the United States, buying a posh estate in Southern California Read More

2001
Creepy Crawlers

Actors: Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage

Synopsis: A mutant African cockroach infests a remote Maine island just as young Dr. Ben Cahill (Thomas Calabro) goes there to shake off the effects of his heavy drinking. His first encounter is with Jack Wolk (John Savage), a local who resents Cahill buying his family's dilapidated house. The resentment Read More

2000
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Lost Bombs, The Search for the Savannah Warhead

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Noah's Ark Found?

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Up For Sale

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Tunguska, The Russian Roswell

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Stolen Glory, The Cover-Up of Cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Keeping the Faith: The Mystery of Mass Suicide

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Monopoly Men

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - American Midnight

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends and posits that there are things Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Genesis Revisited

Synopsis: There has been much speculation about government and religious organizations that might be hiding important information from the public, or allowing untruths to be accepted, supposedly to protect the population. Why is this information withheld, and whose advantage would this serve? Phenomenon Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Unknown Encounter

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Water Damage

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Leslie Hope, John Neville, Roberta Maxwell, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: A man learns that hard way that not all high school memories are pleasant in this thriller. Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) is invited to a high school reunion, but figures someone is playing a trick on him when he discovers he's one of only three people asked to attend. However, Paul soon learns Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Science Fraud: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - H.A.A.R.P., Holes in Heaven

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Restraining Order

Actors: Eric Roberts, Hannes Jaenicke, Tatjana Patitz, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: A lawyer is involved in a criminal proceeding he can't argue his way out of in this action-packed drama. Robert Woodfield (Eric Roberts) is a lawyer who grew up walking a tightrope between both sides of the law; after the death of his parents, he was raised by Charlie Mason (Dean Stockwell), a Read More

1999
The Venice Project

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Dennis Hopper, Linus Roache, Ben Cross, Stuart Townsend

Synopsis: In this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland (Dennis Hopper) is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister, Countess Camilla Volta (Lauren Bacall), lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father, The Read More

1999
The Drew Carey Show: Y2K, You're Okay

Synopsis: Originally telecast in September of 1999, the opening episode of The Drew Carey Show's fifth season vividly reflects the paranoia surrounding "Y2K"--specifically, the then-prevalent belief that virtually every computer in the world would automatically crash on January 1, 2000. After a Y2K dry-run Read More

1999
Rites of Passage

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Jason Behr, Robert Glen Keith, Jaimz Woolvett, James Remar

Synopsis: Two brothers and their father attempt to sort out their issues regarding family and masculinity in the drama Rites Of Passage. A young lawyer, D.J. (Robert Keith), is in a hotel when he spots his father, Del (Dean Stockwell) -- who happens to be with his mistress. D.J. is very upset, and Del Read More

1999
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives - Heavywatergate, The War Against Cold Fusion

Synopsis: Each episode of Phenomenon: The Lost Archives offers an in-depth exploration of an event that defies explication, or examines the untold secrets behind the stories you thought you knew. Hosted by Dean Stockwell, each tape investigates the facts behind the legends. In Phenomenon: The Lost Archives Read More

1999
Sinbad and the Battle of the Dark Knights

Actors: Richard Grieco, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: In this fantasy/adventure for the whole family, a young boy and his grandfather are magically transported into a storybook about the adventures of Sinbad. A wicked knight takes control of a lovely princess, and only Sinbad can save the day as the future of the world (and the safe return of our Read More

1998
The Shadow Men

Actors: Eric Roberts, Sherilyn Fenn, Dean Stockwell, Brendon Ryan Barrett

Synopsis: In this paranoid sci-fi thriller, a family vainly attempts to get friends, relations, and authorities to believe that the black-clad aliens they once encountered are now stalking them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1998
Living in Peril

Actors: Rob Lowe, James Belushi, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: An architect in search of a place to work in peace finds his attention continually diverted by his eccentric neighbors and a menacing stalker in this made-for-television psychological thriller starring James Belushi and Rob Lowe. Walter Woods (Lowe) has rented an apartment in a run-down Los Read More

1997
McHale's Navy

Actors: Tom Arnold, Tim Curry, Dean Stockwell, David Alan Grier, Debra Messing

Synopsis: The most disorganized crew in the Navy returns in this updated adaptation of the once-popular TV sitcom. Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale (Tom Arnold) has retired from the U.S. Navy and is living on the old PT boat he used to command. He spends his days making the rounds of the Caribbean Island of San Read More

1997
Close to Danger

Synopsis: Recovering from a disastrous romance, graduate student Jennifer Cole (Lisa Rinna) is attracted to the brilliant, charismatic and unpredictable aspiring author Adam (Rob Estes), whose manuscript she has been hired to type. Adam's proposed novel concerns a serial killer who has systematically Read More

1997
The Rainmaker

Actors: Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing Read More

1997
Air Force One

Actors: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: In this action drama, Harrison Ford plays James Marshall, a onetime combat hero in the Vietnam War who is now President of the United States. While visiting the former Soviet Union, Marshall gives a speech in which he supports a get-tough attitude against both terrorists and a right-wing general Read More

1997
Mr. Wrong

Actors: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack, Dean Stockwell, Joan Plowright

Synopsis: Popular comic and television personality Ellen DeGeneres had her first starring role in a feature film in this black comedy. Martha Alston (DeGeneres) is a thirtysomething single working as a producer for a talk show. Ever since Martha's younger sister got married, her parents have been after her Read More

1996
Unabomber: The True Story

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Robert Hays, Tobin Bell

Synopsis: This real-life drama follows a determined postal inspector as he doggedly tracks down the notorious unabomber who terrorized the mail system during the mid-1990s. It also centers on the accused terrorist's brother, who played a key role in the investigation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Twilight Man

Actors: Tim Matheson, Dean Stockwell, L. Scott Caldwell

Synopsis: In this high-tech psychological thriller, Tim Matheson plays Jordan Cooper, a college professor and successful author whose life appears to be just the way he'd like. However, one day he goes to the doctor for his annual checkup and discovers all of his computerized medical records have been Read More

1996
The Langoliers

Actors: Patricia Wettig, Bronson Pinchot, Dean Stockwell, Mark Lindsay Chapman

Synopsis: Ten passengers on a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston discover that they are not the only people on the plane, but after making an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine, they discover that they are the only people on the planet. This film was based off the Stephen King short story Four Past Read More

1995
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

1995
Naked Souls

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Brian Krause, Clayton Rohner, David Warner, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: In this thriller, a handsome young scientist thinks he has the opportunity of a lifetime when an elderly experimenter offers to fund and provide a lab for his thought-transference experiments. The younger scientist is working with the memories of dead serial killers. The elder wants to swap Read More

1995
The Innocent

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Polly Draper, Dean Stockwell, Keegan Macintosh, Jeff Kober

Synopsis: An autistic boy is a police officer's only hope at catching some robbers in this made-for-TV crime drama. Kelsey Grammer stars as Detective Frank Marlow, a cop assigned to track down some thieves who committed murder. He pins his hopes on a eight-year-old autistic boy (Keegan MacIntosh) who was Read More

1994
Chasers

Actors: Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Crispin Glover, Matthew Glave, Gary Busey

Synopsis: In director Dennis Hopper's comedy reminiscent of The Last Detail, Rock Reilly (Tom Berenger), a gruff naval veteran who plays by the rules, arrives at a Marine base, in tow with his wheeler-dealer companion Eddie Devane (William McNamara), and finds himself assigned to escort the voluptuous Toni Read More

1994
Madonna: Innocence Lost

Synopsis: Pop-singer and actress Madonna's meteoric rise to fame is chronicled in this trashy made-for-television movie of her life. Terumi Matthews stars as the dancer-turned-musician, who came to New York City in search of fame and fortune. Based on the book Madonna: Unauthorized, the docudrama follows Read More

1994
Vanishing Son 2

1994
Bonanza: The Return

Actors: Ben Johnson, Michael Landon, Jr., Emily Warfield

Synopsis: None of the original cast members of the long-running (1959-73) TV western series Bonanza are on hand for the 1993 TV movie Bonanza: The Return. However, Michael Landon Jr., son of the series' "Little Joe," shows up as Joe's son Benj Cartwright; and Dirk Blocker, son of Dan "Hoss" Blocker, has a Read More

1994
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Michael Gross, Mary Kay Place, Brent Jennings, Bruce A. Young

Synopsis: When a gang leader murders the partner and friend of a police detective, the cop vows to get revenge, but as his quest for justice continues, it is at times unclear which is the hunter and which is the hunted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Justice in a Small Town

Actors: Kate Jackson, John Shea, Dean Stockwell, Rand Courtney, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Caring more about justice than her own safety, a courageous Georgian civil service employee agrees to testify about the corruption rampant in the highest levels of her agency. Unfortunately, her testimony will also endanger the lives of her family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Quantum Leap: Season 05

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Quantum Leap gets under way with the controversial two-part episode in which time traveler Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lee Harvey Oswald, thereby inaugurating a tortuous odyssey leading right up to the tragic events of November 22, 1963. Somehow Read More

1993
The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

4/10/92
Quantum Leap: Season 04

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Reluctant time traveler Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) continues "leaping" in and out of other people's bodies, for purposes apparently known only to his holographic advisor-observer, Al (Dean Stockwell), in season four of Quantum Leap. The season opener, "The Leap Back: June 15, 1945," offers the Read More

1992
Friends and Enemies

Actors: Roger Rignack

Synopsis: In this English-language, Italian-made film, a group of lifelong buddies find their friendships tested to the limit when one of their number picks a fight in a bar and nearly kills the man. They have just come from playing an important baseball game together. The friends decide not to call the Read More

1992
Shame

Actors: Amanda Donohoe, Dean Stockwell, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: In this drama, a town finds itself unable to keep its shameful secret any longer when a meddlesome female lawyer roars into town aboard her motorcycle and begins encouraging a rape victim to press charges. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Papa Was a Preacher

Synopsis: In this drama, set during the 1950s, a Methodist minister's family from a prosperous Dallas church relocate to a tiny Texas town in the boonies to save a failing run-down church. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Fatal Memories

Actors: Shelley Long, Dean Stockwell, Helen Shaver

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Fatal Memories is based on a true story. Shelley Long stars as a California woman whose repressed memories suddenly burst forth. She promptly accuses her father of murder that occurred 20 years earlier. Then she experiences flashes of recollection suggesting that her father was Read More

1992
Backtrack

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Fred Ward, John Turturro

Synopsis: Originally prepared for European release under the title Catchfire, Backtrack wasn't given a wide distribution until 1991, and then only to capitalize on the Oscar win of Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster. In Backtrack, Foster plays a youngish innocent who witnesses a mob hit. Professional Read More

1991
Son of the Morning Star

Actors: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: This second half of the sweeping TV adaptation of Evan S. O'Connell's novel (see entry 129099 for details on Part One) stars Gary Cole as George Armstrong Custer, leader of the 7th Cavalry of the Great Plains in the early 1870s. Custer's efforts to maintain peace with the surrounding Native Read More

1991
Quantum Leap: Season 03

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: The third-season opener of Quantum Leap finds time-traveling Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) "leaping" into the body of his own teenaged self, the better to avert the many tragedies that will befall his family in years to come. In later episodes, Sam again assumes the shape of a woman -- twice, in Read More

1991
Quantum Leap: What Price Gloria?

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1991
Making of "Son of the Morning Star"

Synopsis: Learn about the work which went into the creation of the miniseries . ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Sandino

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Dean Stockwell, Ángela Molina, Victoria Abril

Synopsis: Guerilla wars against the major powers have been a factor in Central American politics for a long time. This biographical drama is based on the life of Nicaragua's prototypical 20th century guerilla, Augusto C. Sandino (born as Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino). His name and life were the Read More

1990
Quantum Leap: Season 02

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Season two of Quantum Leap finds unwilling time traveler Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) trapped in someone else's body back in 1960 -- while in the present, Sam's holographic observer-advisor, Al (Dean Stockwell), is fervently begging a Senate committee to keep the Quantum Leap program alive. Later Read More

1990
Limit Up

Actors: Nancy Allen

Synopsis: In this Faustian tale, a Chicago Grain Exchange employee (Nancy Allen) signs a pact with the Devil in order to get a leg up in soybean futures. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

11/3/89
The Time Guardian

Actors: Tom Burlinson, Nikki Coghill, Carrie Fisher, Dean Stockwell, Henry Salter

Synopsis: When a 4039 AD city is threatened by malevolent cyborgs, a group of humans from the city time-travels to a desert in 1988 Australia, hoping to repair damages inflicted by the robotic baddies. It is here that, with the help of a 20th-century geologist, the group attempts to defend themselves and Read More

8/4/89
Quantum Leap: Pilot

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: Season 01

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Reluctant time-traveler Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) certainly gets a workout "leaping" from one person's body to another during the inaugural season of Quantum Leap -- and so, by extension, does Sam's holographic observer-advisor, Al (Dean Stockwell). The first episode, "Genesis: September 13, 1956 Read More

1989
Jorge Um Brasileiro

Actors: Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Dean Stockwell, Gloria Pires, Denise Dummont

Synopsis: Produced in Brazil, but with an eye on the American market, Jorge um Brasileiro features Hollywood's Dean Stockwell and home-grown star Carlos Alberto Riccelli. The two leading men play truck drivers, whose friendship is threatened when Mario (Stockwell) is promoted. Jorge (Riccelli) is certain Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: Camikazi Kid

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: The Color of Truth

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: Catch a Falling Star

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Buying Time

Actors: Jeff Schultz, Laura Cruickshank, Page Fletcher, Les Toth, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Police recruit two young car-wash attendants to go undercover in this forgettable exploitation feature. Posing as waiters in a retirement home, they uncover a plot involving the drugging of horses to win bets on the races. Dean Stockwell walks through his routine role of the scheming police Read More

1989
Married to the Mob

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the Read More

8/19/88
Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn't buying this: to hear Coppola tell it, Tucker Read More

8/12/88
The Blue Iguana

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, James Russo, Pam Gidley, Tovah Feldshuh

Synopsis: In exchange for staying out of jail, down-and-out bounty hunter Vince Holloway (Dylan McDermott) agrees to work for corrupt IRS agents Vera (Tovah Feldshuh) and Strick (Dean Stockwell). Holloway travels to Diablo, a country run by criminals, to intercept a transfer of funds between crooked banker Read More

4/22/88
The Fabulous Fifties

Synopsis: History. A review of the news of the fifties. Reviews: General Douglas MacArthur's retirement speech; President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; the Korean war; the death of Stalin; testing the hydrogen bomb; the Suez Canal crisis; the Cold War; Cuba's Castro. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Murder, She Wrote: Deadpan

Synopsis: When one of her former students adapts her novel Mainly Murder as a stage play, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is honored to attend the show's opening night. Not long afterward, the reviews come out, with one critic lavishing praise on the production, and the critic's chief rival penning a devastating Read More

1988
Palais Royale

Actors: Kim Cattrall, Matt Craven, Kim Coates, Dean Stockwell, Brian George

Synopsis: Gerald (Matt Craven) is a country boy who takes a job in Toronto as a bookkeeper for an advertising agency. He hopes to someday launch his own successful ad campaigns and daydreams about the beautiful model on the billboard outside his office window. Gerald meets the model Odessa (Kim Catrall) and Read More

1988
Beverly Hills Cop II

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox, John Ashton

Synopsis: Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has seemingly smoothed out his differences with his Beverly Hills superior Bogomil (Ronny Cox), but there's trouble ahead for both men, not to mention two other holdovers from the first Cop film, officers Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton). Read More

5/20/87
Gardens of Stone

Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career soldier Sgt. Clell Hazard, who has come to the sad conclusion that Vietnam is unwinnable and that America should Read More

5/8/87
Hunter: Bad Company

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) want to find out why a teenage girl named Angie (Lar Park Lincoln) was involved in a gunstore robbery in which she was wounded and left for dead by her accomplices. It turns out that Angie is the daughter of Brother Hobarts (Dean Stockwell), leader Read More

1987
The Gambler III: The Legend Continues

Actors: Kenny Rogers

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie is the second follow-up to the astonishingly successful Kenny Rogers as the Gambler (1980). Rogers returns as Old West gambler Brady Hawkes, while Bruce Boxleitner, Rogers' co-star in 1983's The Gambler: The Adventure Continues, is also back as Hawkes' sidekick Billy Read More

1987
Blue Velvet

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his Read More

9/19/86
Banzai Runner

Actors: Dean Stockwell, John Shepherd, Charles Dierkop, Dawn Schneider, Ann Cooper

Synopsis: Starring Dean Stockwell and Charles Dierkop, Banzai Runner concerns a modern-day phenomenon, common among the very rich. Each year, an every-man-for-himself race is staged in the desert, with fat-cat motorists driving the custom cars at supersonic speed up and down the supposedly deserted highway. Read More

1986
To Live and Die in L.A.

Actors: William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro

Synopsis: William Friedkin's crime thriller, based on a book by U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, concerns an arrogant Secret Service official who wants to get his man at any price. Willem Dafoe plays Eric Masters, an ultra-smooth counterfeiter who has managed to sidestep the police for years. He Read More

1985
The Sweet Scent of Death

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama an American ambassador and his wife encounter problems when they visit their pastoral retreat in the English countryside and discover a portrait covered in blood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
The Legend of Billie Jean

Actors: Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater, Richard Bradford, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: With their father dead and their mother busy trying to land a steady beau, pretty teen Billy Jean Davy (Helen Slater) and her younger brother, Binx (Christian Slater), spend their time riding Binx's moped and dreaming of life in Vermont -- several climate zones away from the humid, omnipresent Read More

1985
Citizen Soldier

1984
Dune

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

1984
The A-Team: A Small and Deadly War

Synopsis: The A-Team surfaces in Los Angeles to take on a corrupt police S.W.A.T. unit which hires itself out for private assassinations. Though Hannibal (George Peppard) and company are as usual resourceful, they find themselves up against a crack squad of well-trained villains armed with powerful Read More

1983
To Kill a Stranger

Actors: Angélica María, Dean Stockwell, Donald Pleasence, Aldo Ray, Sergio Aragones

Synopsis: In this unexceptional thriller, not released theatrically, Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one Read More

1983
Paris, Texas

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson

Synopsis: Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he stumbles into a bar and collapses. A German doctor of dubious credentials finds a phone number in Travis' wallet, which belongs to his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Walt is Read More

1983
Human Highway

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, Charlotte Stewart

Synopsis: Rock legend Neil Young directed this bizarre bit of sci-fi-accented satire under his nom de cinema Bernard Shakey, as well as starring as Lionel Switch, an amiable but half-bright auto mechanic who has a furious crush on Charlotte Goodnight (Charlotte Stewart), a waitress at the diner next Read More

1982
Alsino Y El Condor

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Alejandro Parodi, Delia Casanova

Synopsis: Alsino & the Condor is a multinational production, utilizing financing from Nicaragua, Mexico, Cuba and Costa Rica. The film is related from the point of view of Alsino (Alan Esquivel), an impoverished Nicaraguan lad. While his country and its rotting buildings crumble all around him, the Read More

1982
Wrong Is Right

Actors: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths (a significantly bigger stretch in 1982, when the film was released.) Star Sean Connery plays Read More

1982
Baby Broker

Actors: Lynda Carter, Dean Stockwell, Harold Gould, Sharon Farrell, Philip Sterling

Synopsis: A compassionate social worker puts her own life in jeopardy when she begins investigating a powerful businessman suspected of selling babies on the black market. Kate Carlin (Lynda Carter) has dedicated her entire life to helping children. When Kate discovers that a local businessman has been Read More

1981
One Away

Synopsis: In this actioner, an ingenious gypsy breaks free from a South African correctional facility and despite a massive manhunt, manages to keep ahead of the cops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Daniel in the Lion's Den

1979
A Killing Affair

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth Montgomery, O.J. Simpson, John Mahon

Synopsis: Ingredients essential to this made-for-TV movie are a famous former pro football player, an interracial romance, and a brutal murder. Yes, the football player is O.J. Simpson, but the film was made a full 17 years before the death of Nicole Brown Simpson. In A Killing Affair, Simpson is cast as Read More

1977
She Came to the Valley

Synopsis: Based on the book by Cleo Dawson, this film follows the struggle of a female settler as she becomes involved in a political conflict during the Spanish-American War. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Tracks

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell, Topo Swope, Michael Emil

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom directed this moody meditation on the Vietnam War and one of its disturbed veterans. Dennis Hopper stars a sergeant who travels across the United States with the body of a fallen comrade, on a train to his friend's final burial place. As the train wends its way across the United Read More

1976
Columbo: Troubled Waters

Synopsis: Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) takes one of his rare vacations in the 90-minute mystery Troubled Waters. Even on a cruise ship, he can't seem to avoid murder. The victim this time is the singer in the ship's band. The top-billed special guest star is Robert Vaughn, so draw your own conclusions. Directed Read More

1975
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Synopsis: Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer is a brilliant, innovative film about the origins of cinema and its most famed forefather, Muybridge. Filmmaker and Cal Arts professor Thom Andersen, over the course of ten years, animated Muybridge's photographic studies of human and animal gesture and Read More

1975
The Return of Joe Forrester

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges stars as plainclothes policeman Joe Forrester. When a gang of robber-rapists besiege his old beat, Forrester voluntarily returns to uniform duty. He hopes that his presence will encourage the frightened residents to help bring the gang to justice, but the most immediate results of Read More

1975
The Streets of San Francisco: The Programming of Charlie Blake

Synopsis: The latest patient of ambitious psychiatrist Norman Jessup (William Smithers) is lifelong lawbreaker Charlie Blake (Dean Stockwell). In his efforts to advance himself, Dr. Jessup has no qualms about exploiting Blake's criminal past. These efforts prove to have their dangerous side when Jessup Read More

1975
Stickfighter

Synopsis: A courageous stick fighter takes on a wicked Spanish governor to fight for the rights of oppressed Filipinos in this martial arts adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Streets of San Francisco: Legion of the Lost

1973
The Werewolf of Washington

Actors: Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Read More

1973
Mission: Impossible: The Pendulum

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: "Nightfall" is the code name of a widespread terrorist attack planned by a secret organization called the Pendulum. The IMF must learn the nature of the attack, and also bring down Pendulum leader Gunnar Malstrom (Dean Stockwell). As an interesting change of pace, the viewer is given far more plot Read More

1973
Win, Place, or Steal

Synopsis: Three rollicking bumblers get into all sorts of slapstick trouble as they attempt their get-rich schemes at the race track in this comedy. The film is alternately titled The Big Payoff. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
The Adventures of Nick Carter

Actors: Robert Conrad, Shelley Winters, Broderick Crawford, Neville Brand, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: Created for the "dime novels" in 1886, scientific detective Nick Carter has been transferred to film and radio several times in the past six decades, though most of these projects have tended to update his adventures. 1972's made-for-TV Adventures of Nick Carter restores the "turn of the century" Read More

1972
The Loners

Actors: Larry O'Leno

Synopsis: Three teens--a half Navajo (Dean Stockwell), a rebellious girl (Pat Stich) and a retarded boy (Todd Susman)--hit the road after they're accused of killing a policeman. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
The F.B.I.: End of a Nightmare

Synopsis: The FBI investigate a series of mysterious assaults in three different states. Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) has one clue to work on: each assault was somehow related to the message "Til Death Do Us Part." The villain of the piece turns out to be escaped convict Darryl Ryder (Dean Stockwell), who Read More

1972
The Last Movie

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams

Synopsis: With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western Read More

1971
Paper Man

Synopsis: "A computer can only give back what the human mind has put into it." So explained screenwriter James D. Buchanan when discussing the made-for-TV melodrama Paper Man. A group of five bright college students decide to take advantage of a computer glitch. Partly as a social experiment, partly as a Read More

1971
The Failing of Raymond

Synopsis: Jane Wyman makes her TV-movie debut in The Failing of Raymond. She plays a middle-aged schoolteacher on the verge of retirement. Just before packing up and heading out, she is terrorized by former student Dean Stockwell. Having flunked out of her class ten years earlier, the demented man intends Read More

1971
The Dunwich Horror

Actors: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sr., Sam Jaffe, Donna Baccala

Synopsis: With a style and tone that wreaks of the late '60s, this cheap-looking adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story plays like an obvious reference to the battle between the establishment and the counterculture. The film stars Dean Stockwell as Wilbur Whateley, a brooding young man who makes a connection Read More

1970
Bonanza: The Medal

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Dean Stockwell guest-stars as Mathew, a former Northern war hero and Congressional Medal of Honor Winner, now living a pauper's existence in Nevada. Ben Cartwright comes to Mathew's aid when the man is victimized by Seth Nagel (Harry Townes), a Southerner determined to avenge the loss of his home Read More

1969
The F.B.I.: The Quarry

Synopsis: Dean Stockwell guests stars as Mike Riley, a two-bit errand boy for the Mafia. Though he could arrest Riley at moment's notice, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) intends to use the man as bait to trap the higher-ups in the Mob. Unfortunately, Erskine may not get the chance: Having been Read More

1968
Psych-Out

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke

Synopsis: Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney has seen in his various attempts to start a rock & roll band. Stoney and his pals transform the square Read More

1968
Rapture

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell, Gunnel Lindblom, Leslie Sands

Synopsis: Raised in the country with only her world-weary, cynical father, a former judge, for company, a young woman grows up believing that she too is angry at the world. Other than her reclusive father, her only human contact comes from her personal maid and a scarecrow that the girl mistakenly believes Read More

1965
Combat!: High Named Today

Synopsis: Dean Stockwell stars as Pvt. Rob Lawson, the latest replacement sent to King Company. The men are aware of Lawson's reputation for raw, unbridled courage; indeed, some have called him a "one man army." But a war requires team players, and Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) is worried that Lawson's Read More

1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Annabel

Synopsis: Inasmuch as this episode was scripted by Robert Bloch, one shouldn't be surprised by its echoes of Bloch's suspense classic Psycho. The titular Annabel (Susan Oliver) is the former girlfriend of nerdy chemist David Kelsey (Dean Stockwell), who obsesses over the girl day and night. Having spent a Read More

1962
Long Day's Journey into Night

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr

Synopsis: Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in Read More

1962
The Twilight Zone: A Quality of Mercy

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi, Jerry Fujikawa

Synopsis: In the last days of WWII, "90-day wonder" Lieutenant Katell (Dean Stockwell) takes charge of a battle-weary American squadron somewhere in the Pacific Theater. With the arrogance of inexperience, Katell demands that Sgt. Causarano (Albert Salmi) lead an attack against a group of wounded and Read More

1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Landlady

Synopsis: New in town, bank clerk Billy Weaver (Dean Stockwell) rents a room from a slightly daffy old woman (Patricia Collinge). After a few days, Billy begins to wonder why he never sees any of the lady's other tenants. While he doesn't get any answers right away, he does find out that his landlady is Read More

1961
Sons and Lovers

Actors: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears

Synopsis: The Motion Picture Production Code was still in effect (albeit weakly) when Sons and Lovers was filmed in 1960, so don't expect a thoroughly frank and faithful adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel. Set in an English mining town, the film focuses on Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell), the sensitive son Read More

1960
Compulsion

Actors: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority. Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated bully. Read More

1959
Fight the Whole World

Synopsis: Made for television, Fight the Whole World stars Dean Stockwell as an orphan who leaves his guardians to join the navy. Returning home, he asks his girl (Nancy Malone) to marry him. But the girl's father, who despises the boy for his lowly station in life, orders him to get out and stay out. The Read More

1958
The Careless Years

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch, Barbara Billingsley, John Stephenson

Synopsis: Former child actor Dean Stockwell makes his first grown-up appearance in The Careless Years. Stockwell plays a mixed-up high schooler who wishes to marry Natalie Trundy, but the girl's parents (played by John Stephenson and Barbara "June Cleaver" Billingsley) feel the couple should complete school Read More

1957
Gun for a Coward

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Chill Wills, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Having inherited a huge cattle ranch from his late father, Will Keough (Fred MacMurray) wants nothing more than to tend to his work and live in peace, but this is made impossible by the tense situation in his own household. Will's two younger brothers, Bless (Jeffrey Hunter) and Hade (Dean Stockwell Read More

1957
Cattle Drive

Actors: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: Cattle Drive stars Joel McCrea as boss drover Dana Mathews. It is Mathews' task to make a man out of Chester Graham Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled-rotten son of railroad executive Chester Graham Sr. (Leon Ames). Accidentally left behind when his dad's train pulls out of a small cow town Read More

1951
Kim

Actors: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Errol Flynn is top-billed in Kim, but the title character is played by Dean Stockwell. The son of an Irish sergeant, young Kim wanders through the streets and hills of Colonial India, disguised as a native boy. Kim's adventures include an episode with a horse trader (Errol Flynn) who is actually a Read More

1950
The Happy Years

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore

Synopsis: Owen Johnson's novel The Lawrenceville School Stories (compiled from short stories originally published in The Saturday Evening Post) was the basis for The Happy Years. The film is set at an early 20th-century boy's prep school; Dean Stockwell plays an habitual troublemaker sent to this school as Read More

1950
Stars in My Crown

Actors: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a number of characters, it focuses on a preacher who moves into the city and helps solve the town's problems. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1950
Down to the Sea in Ships

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Gene Lockhart, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and Dean Stockwell as his grandson Jed. Anxious to embark upon a life on the sea, Jed aligns himself with Joy's first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark). The captain Read More

1949
The Secret Garden

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Brian Roper, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous orphan girl Mary Lennox (Margaret O'Brien) is sent to live with her reclusive, long-widowed uncle Archibald Craven (Herbert Marshall). The embittered Craven has an invalid Read More

1949
The Boy With Green Hair

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell, Richard Lyon

Synopsis: Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy (Dean Stockwell) whose head has been completely shaved, small town police call in a psychologist (Robert Ryan) and discover that he is a war orphan named Peter Frye. Moving in with an understanding retired actor named Gramps (Pat O'Brien), Peter starts Read More

1948
Deep Waters

Actors: Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere

Synopsis: In this drama, filmed on location in Maine, the life of a young lobster fisherman is forever changed by an orphan boy. It was the fisherman's girlfriend that got him involved with the troubled lad who had been caught stealing while in a foster home. The fisherman was to provide a good role-model Read More

1948
The Arnelo Affair

Actors: John Hodiak, George Murphy, Frances Gifford, Dean Stockwell, Eve Arden

Synopsis: On the whole, the films of producer-writer-director Arch Oboler seldom came up to the lofty standards of his radio work, but each of his movie projects had a few meritorious moments. One of the better Oboler film efforts was The Arnelo Affair, produced by MGM in 1946. Frances Gifford delivers what Read More

1947
Gentleman's Agreement

Actors: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, June Havoc

Synopsis: Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son (Dean Stockwell) to support, Green is receptive to the invitation of magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker) to write a series of hard-hitting Read More

1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Actors: Van Johnson, Joyce Arling, Janet Leigh, James Bell, William Bishop, Thomas Mitchell, Jim Davis, Charles Dingle

Synopsis: Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted musical, the film is actually a fairly sober adaptation (with slight comic undertones) of a novel by Mackinlay Kantor. In the days following the Civil War, a Missouri farming Read More

1947
Song of the Thin Man

Actors: Leon Ames, Warner Anderson, William Bishop, Bruce Cowling, Bess Flowers

Synopsis: In the sixth and final Thin Man whodunit, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) look into the mysterious killing of bandleader Tommy Drake (Phillip Reed). The police quickly hone in on the owner of a gambling ship, Phil Brant (Bruce Cowling), who was about to lose Drake's band to a Read More

1947
The Green Years

Actors: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: The Green Years was an important rung in the career of child actor Dean Stockwell. He stars as a morose young Irish lad, raised by ultra-strict Scottish relatives of his late mother. He is drawn out of his shell by roguish great-grandfather Charles Coburn. In time, Stockwell grows up to be Tom Drake Read More

1946
Home Sweet Homicide

Actors: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari, Dean Stockwell, James Gleason

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Craig Rice, Home Sweet Homicide is a delightful blend of domestic comedy and murder mystery. Peggy Ann Garner, Dean Stockwell and Connie Marshall play Dinah, Archie and April Carstairs, the precocious offspring of widowed mystery writer Marian Carstairs (Lynn Bari). When a Read More

1946
The Mighty McGurk

Actors: Morris Ankrum, Edward Arnold, Wallace Beery, Charles Judels, Aline MacMahon

Synopsis: It's The Champ all over again, with Wallace Beery as a down-and-out prizefighter and Dean Stockwell as the small boy whom he adopts. Mighty McGurk also borrows from Beery's earlier The Bowery (33) by placing its story in that New York neighborhood in 1900. The final echo from Wally Beery's movie Read More

1946
Anchors Aweigh

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised his shy pal Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) that he will introduce Clarence to all the glamorous movie starlets whom he allegedly knows so well. Actually, the only Read More

1945
The Valley of Decision

Actors: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston S. Foster

Synopsis: Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson) and her employer's son, Paul Scott (Gregory Peck). Paul's father, William (Donald Crisp), owns a Pittsburgh steel mill where Mary's father, Pat (Lionel Barrymore Read More

1945

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