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Dean Stockwell - best known for his role as Admiral Al Calavicci in Quantum Leap - dead at 85 after 70 year career
2021-11-10
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The veteran actor died at his home, peacefully of natural causes on Sunday morning a representative confirmed

  • Stockwell had starred alongside Scott Bakula in all 97 episodes of the sci-fi show which aired over five seasons from 1989 to 1993

  • The actor was critically-acclaimed for the role and earned four Primetime Emmy Nominations and won Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 1990 Golden Globes

  • He was also recognized for his work in film as he earned an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as Tony 'The Tiger' Russo in 1988's Married To The Mob

  • He later found major success when he joined the cast of Battlestar Galactica in 2006 and starred in the series until 2009

  • The acting legend first began his career in the 1940s as he was a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Agreed; as fun as Quantum Leap was, that was his best role IMHO.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-11-10 16:03  

#2  ...His work on the Battlestar reboot was utterly amazing - he played a perfect SOB.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-11-10 05:01  

#1  

In the mid-1960s, Stockwell dropped out of show business, becoming active in the Topanga Canyon hippie subculture as a close friend of visual artists George Herms and Wallace Berman, fellow child actor and "dropout" Russ Tamblyn, and musician Neil Young.[22][23] "I did some drugs and went to some love-ins," he later said. "The experience of those days provided me with a huge, panoramic view of my existence that I didn't have before. I have no regrets."

He reunited with Bakula in a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans, titled "Chasing Ghosts," and the following year appeared in the film Entertainment (2015).

It was reported in January 2017 by his ex-wife Joy, that he had suffered and recovered from a stroke in 2015 and was retired from acting.
Posted by: Woodrow   2021-11-10 01:11  

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