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Sam also plays the piano and guitar, is a good dancer, sings baritone, and his favorite song is John Lennon's 'Imagine'. Sam also knows several kinds of martial arts such as Judo, Karate, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo, and has been afraid of heights since he was 9 years old. Sam has a photographic memory, an IQ of 267, likes dry or light beer, and microwave popcorn.

He soon found himself trapped in the past, leaping into other peoples' bodies, putting 'right what once went wrong'. Under pressure to prove his theories or lose funding, he stepped into the unfinished project accelerator and vanished. Stockwell died on Novemdue to natural causes at the age of 85.Samuel 'Sam' Beckett invented a theory about time traveling and led a group of scientists to the desert to develop a top-secret project: Quantum Leap. In 2015, he was forced to retire from acting after suffering a stroke. Outside of acting, Stockwell embraced environmental issues and exhibited works of art, notably collages and sculptures. When the show ended after five seasons, Stockwell remained gainfully employed for another decade, still frequently seen as political or military authority figures (Navy Secretary Edward Sheffield in JAG (1995), Defence Secretary Walter Dean in Air Force One (1997)) or evil alien antagonists (Colonel Grat in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), humanoid Cylon John Cavil in Battlestar Galactica (2004)). The role won him a Golden Globe Award in 1990 and a new generation of fans.

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His television career also flourished, as cigar-smoking, womanizing rear admiral Al Calavicci in the popular science fiction series Quantum Leap (1989). Stockwell, the former child star, has aged very well, becoming an exceptionally interesting, mature actor.' Stockwell subsequently enjoyed high billing in David Lynch's noirish psycho-thriller Blue Velvet (1986) and received an Oscar nomination for his Mafia don Tony 'The Tiger' Russo in Married to the Mob (1988). New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby wrote of his performance 'Mr.

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He nonetheless managed to make a comeback with a co-starring role in the Wim Wenders road movie Paris, Texas (1984). By the early 80s, work opportunities had become scarcer and Stockwell was compelled to briefly sideline as a real estate broker.

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Keeping a considerably lower profile during the 70s, he became a frequent TV guest star in popular crime dramas like Mannix (1967), Columbo (1971) The Streets of San Francisco (1972) and Police Story (1973). Later in the decade, he made a gleeful comeback in low budget psychedelic counterculture ( Psych-Out (1968)) biker films ( The Loners (1972)) and horror comedies ( The Werewolf of Washington (1973)). Stockwell dropped out of show biz for some time in the 60s to join the hippie scene at which time he befriended Neil Young and Dennis Hopper. Despite developing a drinking problem on the set (for which he was chastised by Katharine Hepburn), Stockwell gave a solid performance which he later described as a career highlight. His last film role of note in the early 60s was as Edmund Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). He had already played the part on Broadway in 1957, on this occasion partnering Roddy McDowall. Thereafter, Stockwell segued into television for several years until resurfacing as a mature actor in Richard Fleischer's Compulsion (1959), (based on the infamous Leopold & Loeb murder case), co-starring with Bradford Dillman as one of the two young killers, and Orson Welles. He came to admire his co-star Errol Flynn as a sort of role model. Having won a Golden Globe Award as Best Juvenile Actor for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) (on loan-out to 20th Century Fox), Stockwell went on to play the title role in an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1950). His impish, dimpled looks and tousled brown hair combined with genuine acting talent kept him on the box office front line for more than a decade. Under contract until 1947 (and again from 1949 to 1950), Stockwell became a highly sought-after child star in films like Anchors Aweigh (1945), with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, The Green Years (1946) and Song of the Thin Man (1947). Dean was eventually spotted by a talent scout, and, on the strength of his performance, was signed by MGM in 1945. Dean's mother was a one-time Broadway chorine who used the stage moniker 'Betty Veronica.' His older brother was the actor Guy Stockwell.Īt the age of seven, Dean made his stage debut in a Theater Guild production of Paul Osborn's The Innocent Voyage, in which his brother was also cast. He was also a decent tenor whose voice was used for the part of Prince Charming in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). His vaudevillian father was a replacement Curly in the original production of 'Oklahoma!'. Dean Robert Stockwell grew up in North Hollywood, the son of Broadway performers Harry Stockwell and Elizabeth 'Betty' Stockwell (née Veronica).