Biography
Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American film, television and stage actor with a career spanning over 70 years. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he first came to the public's attention in films including Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), and Kim (1950). As a young adult, he had a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptation of Compulsion; and in 1962 he p...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Neil Young - Boarding House 1978
2024
Director
Neil Young's set in Boarding House consisted of 15 songs, 10 of which were unreleased at the time. This show also marks his first time appearing with ...

The Timekeepers of Eternity
2021
as Bob Jenkins (archive footage)
In this mesmerizing experimental film, a Stephen King television movie is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animatio...

In Hollywood's Backyard: Topanga in the 1970s
2017
as Self
Filmmakers (and canyon residents) Alexander and Anne Christine Von Wetter filmed this documentary for German Television in the early 1970s as a reveal...

Along for the Ride
2016
as Self
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.

Max Rose
2016
as Ben Tracey
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.

Entertainment
2015
as Frank
Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estra...

Rusty Steel
2014
as Hunts
Two Americans brothers, Rusty and Mike, travel to Romania after Rusty inherits their recently deceased uncle's yacht. Once there, they find out their ...

Persecuted
2014
as Dave Wilson
Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther...

Deep in the Darkness
2014
as Phil Deighton
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer ...

C.O.G.
2013
as Hobbs
A gay cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyon...

President Wolfman
2012
as President John Wolfman (archive footage)
Meet John Wolfman - politician, single parent and werewolf. A man whose (hairy) hands are definitely full. Not only is he trying to stop his opponents...

The Dunwich Horror
2009
as Dr. Henry Armitage
In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover t...

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009
as Brother Cavil
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) ...

The Nanny Express
2009
as Jerry Hewitt
With their mother dead, Emily and Ben torment their nannies to quit as fast as their father hires them. Till a nanny named Kate shows up and slowly wi...

Al's Beef
2008
as The Sherrif
Bloodied, barefoot, and branded like cattle, a mysterious woman wanders into a desolate frontier town with an aim to kill the son of a bitch that done...

The Cool School
2008
as Self
How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch.

The Deal: El trato
2006
as Agent Tremayne
Laura loses her family in a tragic fire while living in Spain. Just as she prepares to return home to the States, a member of the American embassy pro...

American Black Beauty
2005
as Tim Lane
After her father dies in a horse riding accident, a displaced city girl named Cheryl is sent to live with a foster family on a farm in the country. He...

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Mark Whiting
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

Buffalo Soldiers
2002
as General Lancaster
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Inferno
2002
as Mayor Bill Klinger
A fire chief is investigating the cause of a string of blazes that threaten to destroy her small town, while at the same time dealing with her teen da...

The Quickie
2001
as Michael
A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival ...

CQ
2001
as Dr. Ballard
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationshi...

In Pursuit
2001
as Charles Welz
An attorney is accused of murdering a powerful man after having an affair with his sultry wife.

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
2000
as Tim Drake (voice)
The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Neo-Gotham's Dark Knight, Terry McGinnis, needs answers as he stands alone to face the old Gotham's most infam...

They Nest
2000
as Sheriff Hobbs
After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediate...

Rites of Passage
1999
as Del Farraday
A father and his two sons go on holiday together hoping to reconcile some of their differences, but when the arrival of two escaped convicts interrupt...

Rites of Passage
1999
Associate Producer
A father and his two sons go on holiday together hoping to reconcile some of their differences, but when the arrival of two escaped convicts interrupt...

The Venice Project
1999
as Senator Campbell
Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and ann...

Water Damage
1999
as Frank Skoufaris
One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides ...

Restraining Order
1999
as Charlie Mason
Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone des...

What Katy Did
1999
as Tramp
A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her aunt, until a tragic accident changes her outlook on l...

Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
1998
as Bophisto
A young boy is taught to use his imagination by his grandfather who casts him in a great adventure back in time. Using a magic coin, he enters the med...

The Rainmaker
1997
as Judge Harvey Hale
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in...

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997
as Self
An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footag...

The Shadow Men
1997
as Stan Mills
Happily married couple Bob and Dez Wilson and their 12-year old son Andy are being attacked by a blinding light when driving home from a daytrip. They...

Air Force One
1997
as Walter Dean
When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossibl...

Living in Peril
1997
as William
The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the...

Midnight Blue
1997
as Katz-Feeney
Shortly before he moves from New York to Los Angeles a banker visits his Atlanta branch. One evening he is propositioned, by a high-class call girl. T...

McHale's Navy
1997
as Capt. Wallace B. Binghampton
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit ...

Last Resort
1996
as Grey Wolf
Nine young men and women, deemed unmanageable by both anguished parents and a society grown weary of drug users, gang members and thieves, are given o...

Unabomber: The True Story
1996
as Ben Jeffries
The real story behind the hunt for Theodore J. Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber, a terrorist who sent several bombs through the mail, alarming ...

Naked Souls
1996
as Duncan
Edward is busy trying to unlock the secrets of reading and recording people's thoughts. He is very involved with his work leaving little room for girl...

Mr. Wrong
1996
as Jack Tramonte
A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and ...

Twilight Man
1995
as Hollis Deitz
Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when ...

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
1995
as Aaron Bliss
Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami...

Madonna - Innocence Lost
1994
as Tony Ciccone
Pop-singer and actress Madonna's rise to fame is chronicled in this made-for-television movie. Terumi Matthews stars as the dancer-turned-musician, wh...

The Innocent
1994
as Capt. Jason Flaboe
The owner of a drugstore is killed in a hold-up. The only witness who saw one of the murderers without his mask is Gregory, a nine year old autistic b...

Justice in a Small Town
1994
as Commissioner Sam Caldwell
A civil service worker in Georgia places her family at risk when she agrees to help expose high-level corruption.

Vanishing Son II
1994
as Mickey Jo
The continuing saga of the Chang brothers: Jian-Wa and Wago. Picking up where it left off, Jian-Wa has left L.A. after a gang fight that involved Wago...

Chasers
1994
as Salesman Stig
Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip...

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
as Jack Lowe
A criminal gang commits a string of violent robberies and murders, culminating in the assassination of the police detective on the case, which may lea...

Bonanza: The Return
1993
as Augustus Brandenburg
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.

Fatal Memories
1992
as Det. Robert Morse
Fact based story about a woman who after 20 years starts having memories of her own molestation by her father and the murder of one of her childhood p...

Shame
1992
as Tim Curtis
A tough female lawyer on holiday ends up in a small Pacific Northwest town where she befriends a local teenage girl and tries to persuade her to to pr...

The Player
1992
as Andy Civella
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991
as Self
Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is profiled in "Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hoppe...

Catchfire
1990
as John Luponi
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to ge...

Sandino
1990
as Capitain Hatfield
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989
as Self
A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with Shirley Temple, Margaret O'Brien, and numerous oth...

Limit Up
1989
as Peter Oak
Casey is the assistant of commodity trader Peter Oak, but wants to get a license herself. When the diabolic Nike appears and promises to make her succ...

Buying Time
1989
as Detective Novak
Petty thieves Jabber and Reno are blackmailed by the police to uncover the identity of a mobster who is killing the city's drug dealers. While relucta...

Married to the Mob
1988
as Tony Russo
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Howard Hughes
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by ...

Smokescreen
1988
as Michael Dattalico
Gerald Price, who is a clerk at at advertising agency, is tired of being lowest in rank. When he meets the girl of his dreams he has to deal with her ...

The Blue Iguana
1988
as Detective Carl Strick
To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked IRS agents. Tasked with ...

Jorge, Um Brasileiro
1988
as Mário
After arguing with his ex-girlfriend, truck driver Jorge hits the road again, while remembering the past and questioning his friendship with his manip...

The Time Guardian
1987
as Boss
In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the Cit...

The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987
as James McLaughlin
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and...

Banzai Runner
1987
as Billy Baxter
A highway patrolman goes after a ring of hit-and-run drivers known as "Banzai runners," who have fast, expensive cars and stage illegal, dangerous hig...

Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
as Chip Cain
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...

Gardens of Stone
1987
as Capt. Homer Thomas
A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. ...

Blue Velvet
1986
as Ben
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a ...

Papa Was a Preacher
1986
as John White
Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The ...

To Kill a Stranger
1986
as John Carver
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who ...

To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
as Bob Grimes
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counter...

The Legend of Billie Jean
1985
as Muldaur
Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one da...

The Sweet Scent of Death
1984
as Greg Denver
An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by visiting a countryside mansion, but soon the trip tur...

Dune
1984
as Doctor Wellington Yueh
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spi...

Paris, Texas
1984
as Walt
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked ou...

Alsino and the Condor
1982
as Frank
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops whe...

Human Highway
1982
as Otto Quartz
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. Ho...

Human Highway
1982
Screenplay, Director
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. Ho...

Wrong Is Right
1982
as Hacker
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in th...

Born to Be Sold
1981
as Marty Helick
A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through...

She Came To The Valley
1979
as Pat Westall
Based on the book by Cleo Dawson, this film follows the struggle of a female settler as she becomes involved in a political conflict during the Spanis...

Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978
as Hissar
Daniel is thrown into the lion's den for his part in a plot, and the rest is the familiar Bible story.

A Killing Affair
1977
as Kenneth Switzer
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. Durin...

Tracks
1976
as Mark
A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls...

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as Paul Levell
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

One Away
1976
as Pete Bass
Two brothers plot to get their third brother out of jail.

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
1975
as Narrator (voice)
Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. ...

Cop on the Beat
1975
as Det. Callan
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1...

Win, Place or Steal
1975
as Billy
Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and (2) they invariably lose. One day they hit upon a scheme...

The Pacific Connection
1974
as Miguel
Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist in their oppression the Governor hires a Samurai ...

The Werewolf of Washington
1973
as Jack Whittier
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn int...

The Loners
1972
as Stein
On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Togeth...

The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972
as Freddy Duncan
Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.

Paper Man
1971
as Avery Jensen
A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three...

The Last Movie
1971
as Billy the Kid
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.

The Failing of Raymond
1971
as Raymond
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.

The Dunwich Horror
1970
as Wilbur Whateley
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previo...

Psych-Out
1968
as Dave
Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor kno...
The Ping-Pong Match
1968
as Ping Pong Player
A short film that was directed by Toni Basil.

Rapture
1965
as Joseph
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph dev...
Pas de Trois
1964
Director
A short film documenting the making of Bruce Conner's Breakaway.

Long Day's Journey Into Night
1962
as Edmund Tyrone
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy d...

Sons and Lovers
1960
as Paul Morel
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman f...

Compulsion
1959
as Judd Steiner
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.

The Careless Years
1957
as Jerry Vernon
A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, t...

Gun for a Coward
1956
as Hade (Harry) Keough
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion...

Cattle Drive
1951
as Chester Graham, Jr.
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and t...

Kim
1950
as Kim
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English s...

The Happy Years
1950
as John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whos...

Stars in My Crown
1950
as John Kenyon
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a ...

The Secret Garden
1949
as Colin Craven
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...

Down to the Sea in Ships
1949
as Jed Joy
During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark...

The Boy with Green Hair
1948
as Peter
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new c...

Deep Waters
1948
as Donny Mitchell
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

Gentleman's Agreement
1947
as Tommy Green
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

Song of the Thin Man
1947
as Nick Charles Jr.
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947
as Andrew MacBean
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

The Arnelo Affair
1947
as Ricky Parkson
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

A Really Important Person
1947
as Billy Reilly
A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.

The Mighty McGurk
1947
as Nipper
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.

Home Sweet Homicide
1946
as Archie Carstairs
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying ...

The Green Years
1946
as Robert Shannon as a child
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stan...

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
as Dean (uncredited)
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Anchors Aweigh
1945
as Donald Martin
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew...

The Valley of Decision
1945
as Paulie
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the we...
Paperman
N/A
A group of college students creates a fake person to get a credit card -- but their plan turns into something that leaves three of them dead.