Dean Stockwell, well known for his appearances in Quantum Leap and Blue Velvet, has passed away at age of 85 years. According to family spokesman Jay D. Schwartz, he died of natural causes on Sunday morning at his home in Hollywood, Calif.
The Academy Award nominee, Born Robert Dean Stockwell, has several acting jobs. He began his career as a child artist at the age of seven years only, he appeared in Anchors Away alongside Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly.
He had a breakout part in the 1948 antiwar picture The Boy With Green Hair when he was 11 years old. Stockwell became a celebrity as a result of the film, and he felt shunned.
“Wherever I went, I was treated as something different,” In 1988, Stockwell spoke with WHYY’s Fresh Air. “I didn’t feel marked for something special.
I felt I was being treated as something special then, and I didn’t like it and I wanted to get out of it.”
Stockwell changed his identity and left Hollywood after graduating from high school at the age of 16.
He ultimately returned to acting, most famously in Sidney Lumet’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night in 1962, although he spent the most of this period on television.
By the late 1960s, he had returned to acting after few years vacation. When he returned, he found it difficult to find work.
In the 1980s, Stockwell was on the verge of changing occupations entirely. He obtained his real estate licence in New Mexico and advertised in Variety.
Instead, he went on to star in a number of famous films, including Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, David Lynch’s Dune and Blue Velvet, Robert Altman’s The Player, and Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob, for which he received an Academy Award nod for Best Supporting Actor.
Stockwell was most famous for his role as Admiral Al Calavicci in the five-season science fiction television series “Quantum Leap”.
He’d go on to star in programmes like The Tony Danza Show, JAG, and the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica run in the 2000s. After that, he took a break from acting once more, this time to focus on his profession in creative arts, mostly with paper collage.
His wife, Joy Stockwell, and their two children, Austin Stockwell and Sophie Stockwell, survive him.
