The American actor, who also played in “Dune”, “Blue Velvet” and “Paris, Texas” and won two interpretation awards in Cannes, died on Sunday at the age of 85 years.
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The American actor Dean Stockwell, known for his role of Admiral Al Calavicci in the Quantum Code series, died on Sunday, November 7, at the age of 85, said his family at Deadline , confirming information from TMZ . The comedian died in his sleep at his home, said his entourage at Variety magazine
Especially known in France for its role as a caustic hologram alongside Scott Bakula in the series broadcast on M6 in the 1990s, Dean Stockwell already had a long cinematographic career behind him. In particular, he obtained an appointment to the best role in the best role in 1988 for widow but not too much, from Jonathan Demme, and also played in great films like Dune and Blue Velvet, David Lynch, and Paris, Texas, from Wim Wenders .
Born March 5, 1936 in Hollywood, the comedian made his cinema debut at the age of 7. He embodies Gregory Peck’s son in the invisible wall, the Kim of Rudyard Kipling in the movie of the same name Victor Saville, the young Peter in the Green Hair Boy of Joseph Losey. At 16, with more than twenty films to his credit, he lets everything fall and runs the roads for five years.
Dean Stockwell returns to the profession in 1957. He plays in particular in lovers and sons, the genius of evil – for which he obtained in 1959 the masculine interpretation price at the Shared Cannes Film Festival with Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles – and long Journey to the night – Male interpretation price at the Shared Cannes Film Festival with Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson in 1962.
In 1985, he turns in Federal Police Los Angeles, William Friedkin, and in 1986 in Blue Velvet, David Lynch – he who, during a glaucous nightmare evening, sings in play-back on a record of Roy Orbinson, light up with a lamp on foot …
It offers on the stone gardens, Francis Ford Coppola, the Beverly Hills 2 cop, Tony Scott, then Tucker, always with Coppola. Its popularity has further increased on television when it joined the cast of Battlestar Galactica in 2006.