"I hate to admit it, but you can't do a role unless it's somewhere in your psyche. People don't realize how vast the subconscious is. It's like infinity."
Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American actor.
He started out as a child star, playing Colin Craven in the 1949 film adaptation of The Secret Garden and the title characters of The Boy with Green Hair and the 1950 film adaptation of Kim. As an adult, he was probably best known on TV as Admiral Al Calavicci on Quantum Leap and Brother John Cavil on Battlestar Galactica (2003), and in film for David Lynch's Dune and Blue Velvet, the latter of which featured him memorably lip-syncing to Roy Orbison's "In Dreams".
Stockwell was married to actress Millie Perkins from 1960 to 1962, and to textiles expert Joy Marchenko from 1981 to 2004; he and Marchenko had two children together. His older brother Guy Stockwell (1933–2002) was also an actor, while their father Harry Stockwell (1902–1984) was the voice of the Prince in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
He passed away of natural causes in 2021, at age 85.
TV Tropes filmography:
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Film roles
- Anchors Aweigh (1945): Donald Martin
- Gentleman's Agreement (1947): Tommy Green
- Song of the Thin Man (1947): Nick Charles Jr.
- The Secret Garden (1949): Colin Craven
- Kim (1950): Kim O'Hara
- Stars in My Crown (1950): John Kenyon
- Sons and Lovers (1960): Paul Morel
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962): Edmund Tyrone
- Psych-Out (1968): Dave
- The Dunwich Horror (1970): Wilbur Whateley
- The Last Movie (1971): Billy the Kid
- The Werewolf of Washington (1973): Jack Whittier
- Alsino and the Condor (1979): Condor
- Wrong is Right (1982): Hacker
- Dune (1984): Dr. Wellington Yueh
- Paris, Texas (1984): Walt Henderson
- The Legend of Billie Jean (1985): Muldaur
- Once Bitten (1985): Valet Attendant (uncredited)
- To Live and Die in L.A. (1985): Bob Grimes
- Blue Velvet (1986): Ben
- Beverly Hills Cop II (1987): Chip Cain
- The Blue Iguana (1988): Detective Carl Strick
- Married to the Mob (1988): Anthony "Tony the Tiger" Russo
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988): Howard Hughes
- Son of the Morning Star (1991): General Philip Sheridan
- The Player (1992): Andy Civella
- The Innocent (1994): Captain Jason Flaboe
- The Langoliers (1995): Robert Jenkins
- Air Force One (1997): Defense Secretary Walter Dean
- McHale's Navy (1997): Captain Wallace B. Binghampton
- The Rainmaker (1997): Judge Harvey Hale
- The Shadow Men (1997): Stan Mills
- Buffalo Soldiers (2001): Major General Lancaster
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004): Mark Whiting
- Persecuted (2014): Dave Wilson
Television roles
- Wagon Train (1 episode, 1957): Jimmy Drew
- Wagon Train (1 episode, 1958): Juan Ortega
- Playhouse 90 (1 episode, 1959): Roy Riverlee
- Wagon Train (1 episode, 1959): Rodney Lawrence
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode, 1961): Billy Weaver
- The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1961): Lt. Katell/Lt. Yamuri
- Wagon Train (1 episode, 1961): Will Santee
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1 episode, 1962): David H. Kelsey/William Newmaster
- Combat (1 episode, 1963): Rob Lawson
- Burke's Law (1 episode, 1964): Jay Boy Calhoun
- Kraft Suspense Theatre (1 episode, 1964): Martin Rosetti
- Dr. Kildare (6 episodes, 1965): Dr. Rudy Devereux
- The F.B.I. (1 episode, 1968): Michael Vincent Riley
- Bonanza (1 episode, 1969): Matthew Rush
- Mannix (1 episode, 1971): Chris Townsend
- Columbo (1 episode, 1972): Eric Wagner
- The F.B.I. (1 episode, 1972): Darryl Ryder
- Mission: Impossible (1 episode, 1973): Gunnar Malstrom
- Night Gallery (1 episode, 1973): Charlie Evans
- The Streets of San Francisco (1 episode, 1973): Paul Thomas/Paul Cullen
- Cannon (1 episode, 1975): Tom Longman
- Columbo (1 episode, 1975): Lloyd Harrington
- Ellery Queen (1 episode, 1975): Cliff Waddell
- The Streets of San Francisco (1 episode, 1975): Charlie Blake
- McCloud (1 episode, 1976): Pete Lancaster
- Tales of the Unexpected (1 episode, 1977): Richard Ayres
- Hart to Hart (1 episode, 1982): James Francis
- The A-Team (1 episode, 1983): Police Officer Collins
- Simon & Simon (1 episode, 1983): Dr. Griss
- Miami Vice (1 episode, 1985): Jack Gretsky
- Hunter (1 episode, 1987): Brother Hobarts
- Murder, She Wrote (1 episode, 1988): Elliot Easterbrook
- The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1989): Martin Decker
- Quantum Leap (1989–93): Admiral Al Calavicci
- Lois & Clark (1 episode, 1994): Preston Carpenter
- Chicago Hope (1 episode, 1995): Robert St. Clair
- The Commish (1 episode, 1995): Robert Alladyce
- Nowhere Man (1 episode, 1995): Gus Shepherd
- The Drew Carey Show (1 episode, 1999): Hal
- Stargate SG-1 (1 episode, 2002): Dr. Kieran
- Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, 2002): Colonel Grat
- JAG (11 episode, 2002–04): SecNav Edward Sheffield
- Battlestar Galactica (15 episodes, 2006–09): Brother John Cavil
- Enlisted (1 episode, 2014): Dan
- NCIS: New Orleans (1 episode, 2014): Tom Hamilton
Voice roles
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–92): Duke Nukem
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000): the adult Tim Drake
