I've recently become a huge fan of Stockwell. He's had a really remarkable career. He's been working fairly steadily since he debuted on Broadway with his brother when he was seven years old. His first film was released in 1945, when he was nine, and he's completed work on two films slated for release this year. He's done everything--TV, film, and theatre, and across pretty much every genre: comedy, drama, documentary, horror, musicals, romance, science fiction, suspense, and westerns. He's worked with a slew of interesting people--for example: Robert Altman, Lionel Barrymore, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Melvyn Douglas, Errol Flynn, Harrison Ford, Katherine Hepburn, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Elia Kazan, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, Myrna Loy, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Herbert Marshall, Jack Nicholson, Margaret O?Brien, Reginald Owen, Gregory Peck, William Powell, Vincent Price, Jason Robards, Frank Sinatra, Harry Dean Stanton, Meryl Streep, Orson Welles, Wim Wenders, Teresa Wright, Fred Astaire, Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Lloyd Bridges, Paul Henreid, Ida Lupino, Karl Malden, Walter Matthau, David Niven, John Wayne, and Shelley Winters--just a sampling. He was Dennis Hopper's best friend and roommate. Oh, and he's a visual artist, too.
I enjoy watching him in pretty much everything, though he's been in so much that his films run the gamut from schlock to absolute brilliance, from obscure low-budget flicks to mega productions. I think my favorite of his early films (of those I've seen so far) is The Happy Years, and The Secret Garden is great, too. I love Long Day's Journey Into Night--for me, a film with Dean Stockwell and Jason Robards AND Katherine Hepburn is just plain candy. One of my absolute favorite films ever is the relatively little-known Rapture from 1965, in which Stockwell stars with Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi (who starred in the 1962 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner Sundays and Cybele), and Gunnel Lindblom (Ingmar Bergman regular). And I love Paris, Texas and Married to the Mob. I'd love to see TCM air some of his less frequently shown films like Home Sweet Homicide, The Careless Years, Rapture (of course), The Last Movie, and some of his work on TV programs like Matinee Theatre, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Kraft Suspense Theatre. They should definitely get him in studio if he's willing. And if he's not willing, they should try harder to talk him into it.
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I've recently become a huge fan of Stockwell. He's had a really remarkable career. He's been working fairly steadily since he debuted on Broadway with his brother when he was seven years old. His first film was released in 1945, when he was nine, and he's completed work on two films slated for release this year. He's done everything--TV, film, and theatre, and across pretty much every genre: comedy, drama, documentary, horror, musicals, romance, science fiction, suspense, and westerns. He's worked with a slew of interesting people--for example: Robert Altman, Lionel Barrymore, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Melvyn Douglas, Errol Flynn, Harrison Ford, Katherine Hepburn, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Elia Kazan, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, Myrna Loy, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Herbert Marshall, Jack Nicholson, Margaret O?Brien, Reginald Owen, Gregory Peck, William Powell, Vincent Price, Jason Robards, Frank Sinatra, Harry Dean Stanton, Meryl Streep, Orson Welles, Wim Wenders, Teresa Wright, Fred Astaire, Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Lloyd Bridges, Paul Henreid, Ida Lupino, Karl Malden, Walter Matthau, David Niven, John Wayne, and Shelley Winters--just a sampling. He was Dennis Hopper's best friend and roommate. Oh, and he's a visual artist, too.
I enjoy watching him in pretty much everything, though he's been in so much that his films run the gamut from schlock to absolute brilliance, from obscure low-budget flicks to mega productions. I think my favorite of his early films (of those I've seen so far) is The Happy Years, and The Secret Garden is great, too. I love Long Day's Journey Into Night--for me, a film with Dean Stockwell and Jason Robards AND Katherine Hepburn is just plain candy. One of my absolute favorite films ever is the relatively little-known Rapture from 1965, in which Stockwell stars with Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi (who starred in the 1962 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner Sundays and Cybele), and Gunnel Lindblom (Ingmar Bergman regular). And I love Paris, Texas and Married to the Mob. I'd love to see TCM air some of his less frequently shown films like Home Sweet Homicide, The Careless Years, Rapture (of course), The Last Movie, and some of his work on TV programs like Matinee Theatre, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Kraft Suspense Theatre. They should definitely get him in studio if he's willing. And if he's not willing, they should try harder to talk him into it.