Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart

1908-03-13 New York City, New York, USA 58 Credits

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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The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind

2018

as Matt Costello

6.7
Acting

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

Acting

Compilation hodgepodge.

Tempest

Tempest

1982

as Phillip's Father

6.0
Acting

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

Nobody's Perfekt

1981

as Dr. Segal

3.4
Acting

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.

S.O.B.

1981

as Harry Sandler

5.9
Acting

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

The Pilot

1980

as 2nd Mechanic

6.7
Acting

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

Power

1980

as Vince Ianelli

2.0
Acting

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

The Nativity

1978

as Zacharias

6.0
Acting

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

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther

1978

as Julio Scallini

6.4
Acting

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

Opening Night

1977

as David Samuels

7.6
Acting

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

W.C. Fields and Me

1976

as Florenz Ziegfeld

7.8
Acting

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

Bite the Bullet

1975

as J.B. Parker (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

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

Murph the Surf

1975

as Avery

1.0
Acting

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

Carter's Army

1975

as Gen. Clark

4.0
Acting

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

The Day of the Locust

1975

as Helverston

6.4
Acting

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

F for Fake

1973

as Self

7.4
Acting

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

Fabulous Trinity

1972

as Charles

5.0
Acting

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

City Beneath the Sea

1971

as Barton

4.1
Acting

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

How to Commit Marriage

1969

as Willoughby

4.8
Acting

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

Jigsaw

1968

as Dr. Simon Joshua

6.0
Acting

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

In Cold Blood

1967

as Jensen

7.5
Acting

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

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965

as Questor

6.4
Acting

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

A Child Is Waiting

1963

as Goodman

6.8
Acting

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

Beyond All Limits

1959

as Pendergrest

5.2
Acting

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

King Creole

1958

as Charlie LeGrand

6.4
Acting

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

Top Secret Affair

1957

as Phil Bentley

4.6
Acting

A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.

Not One Shall Die

Not One Shall Die

1957

as Kellerman

Acting

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

The Wild Party

1956

as Ben Davis

5.8
Acting

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

Confession

1956

as Martin Hoeffer

Acting

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

Hell on Frisco Bay

1955

as Joe Lye

5.2
Acting

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

Chicago Syndicate

Chicago Syndicate

1955

as Arnold 'Arnie' Valent

5.8
Acting

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

The Cobweb

1955

as Dr. Otto Wolff

5.8
Acting

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

Kiss Me Deadly

1955

as Carl Evello

7.2
Acting

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

Deep in My Heart

1954

as Bert Townsend

6.8
Acting

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

Prisoner of War

Prisoner of War

1954

as Capt. Jack Hodges

3.9
Acting

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

The Joe Louis Story

1953

as Tad McGeehan

5.9
Acting

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

The Juggler

1953

as Detective Karni

6.5
Acting

A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952

as Syd Murphy

7.3
Acting

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!

We're Not Married!

1952

as Attorney Stone

5.9
Acting

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

Loan Shark

1952

as Lou Donelli

5.5
Acting

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

Carbine Williams

1952

as 'Dutch' Kruger

6.4
Acting

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.

Deadline - U.S.A.

1952

as Harry Thompson

6.8
Acting

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Walk Softly, Stranger

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950

as Whitey Lake

5.0
Acting

A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

Edge of Doom

Edge of Doom

1950

as Mr. Craig

5.9
Acting

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

Appointment with Danger

Appointment with Danger

1950

as Earl Boettiger

5.6
Acting

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

Twelve O'Clock High

1949

as Major "Doc" Kaiser (flight surgeon)

7.1
Acting

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

She Loves Me Not

1949

as Paul Lawton

Acting

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student

Easy Living

Easy Living

1949

as Dave Argus

5.9
Acting

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Illegal Entry

Illegal Entry

1949

as Zack Richards

5.4
Acting

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

The Window

1949

as Joe Kellerson

6.9
Acting

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

Champion

1949

as Tommy Haley

6.6
Acting

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

Berlin Express

1948

as Narrator (voice)

6.2
Acting

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

Government Girl

1943

as Branch Owens

5.2
Acting

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky

1943

as Zepp

7.0
Acting

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

The World at War

1942

as Narrator (voice)

6.8
Acting

Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War.

Johnny Eager

Johnny Eager

1941

as Julio

6.1
Acting

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

1941

as Raymond

8.0
Acting

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

Ever Since Eve

1937

as Cocktail Customer (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Ma...