Biography
Paul Stewart (March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor known for his tough, guttural voice. He frequently portrayed villains and mobsters throughout his lengthy career. Born Paul Sternberg in New York City, Stewart graduated from Columbia University and made his Broadway theatre debut in the play Two Seconds in 1931. A few years later he met Orson Welles, who invited him to join the Mercury Theatre, where he participated in the notorious 1938 radio broadcast of The Wa...
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Complete Filmography

The Other Side of the Wind
2018
as Matt Costello
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts...
Hollywood Classic Special
2010
Compilation hodgepodge.

Tempest
1982
as Phillip's Father
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in f...

Nobody's Perfekt
1981
as Dr. Segal
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychia...

S.O.B.
1981
as Harry Sandler
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes ...

The Pilot
1980
as 2nd Mechanic
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an ...

Power
1980
as Vince Ianelli
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade...

The Nativity
1978
as Zacharias
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.

Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
as Julio Scallini
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car...

Opening Night
1977
as David Samuels
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about agin...

W.C. Fields and Me
1976
as Florenz Ziegfeld
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields...

Bite the Bullet
1975
as J.B. Parker (uncredited)
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo...

Murph the Surf
1975
as Avery
Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called th...

Carter's Army
1975
as Gen. Clark
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their...

The Day of the Locust
1975
as Helverston
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with ...

F for Fake
1973
as Self
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his nam...

Fabulous Trinity
1972
as Charles
In a Wild West town, Miss Nora, a beautiful smuggler, meets Scott, a bounty hunter that goes to Mexico with her for work issues. While they are in Mex...

City Beneath the Sea
1971
as Barton
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. gover...

How to Commit Marriage
1969
as Willoughby
A young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's pare...

Jigsaw
1968
as Dr. Simon Joshua
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.

In Cold Blood
1967
as Jensen
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality...

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Questor
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M...

A Child Is Waiting
1963
as Goodman
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her lif...

Beyond All Limits
1959
as Pendergrest
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned...

King Creole
1958
as Charlie LeGrand
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. S...

Top Secret Affair
1957
as Phil Bentley
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.

Not One Shall Die
1957
as Kellerman
A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core c...

The Wild Party
1956
as Ben Davis
An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.

Confession
1956
as Martin Hoeffer
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

Hell on Frisco Bay
1955
as Joe Lye
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

Chicago Syndicate
1955
as Arnold 'Arnie' Valent
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two...

The Cobweb
1955
as Dr. Otto Wolff
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.

Kiss Me Deadly
1955
as Carl Evello
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thug...

Deep in My Heart
1954
as Bert Townsend
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

Prisoner of War
1954
as Capt. Jack Hodges
American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.

The Joe Louis Story
1953
as Tad McGeehan
The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not onl...

The Juggler
1953
as Detective Karni
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Syd Murphy
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...

We're Not Married!
1952
as Attorney Stone
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally m...

Loan Shark
1952
as Lou Donelli
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharker...

Carbine Williams
1952
as 'Dutch' Kruger
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine autom...

Deadline - U.S.A.
1952
as Harry Thompson
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
as Whitey Lake
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

Edge of Doom
1950
as Mr. Craig
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

Appointment with Danger
1950
as Earl Boettiger
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S...

Twelve O'Clock High
1949
as Major "Doc" Kaiser (flight surgeon)
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deal...

She Loves Me Not
1949
as Paul Lawton
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student

Easy Living
1949
as Dave Argus
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Illegal Entry
1949
as Zack Richards
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked w...

The Window
1949
as Joe Kellerson
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking h...

Champion
1949
as Tommy Haley
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Berlin Express
1948
as Narrator (voice)
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.

Government Girl
1943
as Branch Owens
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

Mr. Lucky
1943
as Zepp
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

The World at War
1942
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War.

Johnny Eager
1941
as Julio
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Citizen Kane
1941
as Raymond
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, ty...

Ever Since Eve
1937
as Cocktail Customer (uncredited)
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Ma...