Harold J. Stone

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Harold J. Stone
Stone in 1972
Born	Harold Hochstein (1913-03-03)March 3, 1913
Died	November 18, 2005(2005-11-18) (aged 92) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, stage director
Years active	1939–1986
Spouse(s)	Jean (m. ?–1960) (her death) (2 children) Miriam ​ (m. 1962⁠–⁠2005)​ (his death) (1 child)[1]

Harold J. Stone (born Harold Hochstein, March 3, 1913 – November 18, 2005) was an American stage, radio, film, and television character actor.^[2]

Early life and stage career

Stone was born an only child into a Jewish acting family. At age six, Stone debuted on stage with his father, Jacob Hochstein, in the play White Slaves. A graduate of New York University, he attended the University of Buffalo to study medicine but was forced to drop out to support his mother and fell back on acting.^[1]

After gaining considerable acting experience in various plays during the 1930s, Stone was finally cast on Broadway, where between 1939 and the early 1950s, he appeared in a series of critically acclaimed productions such as One Touch of Venus and Stalag 17. Some of his other Broadway credits include Morning Star (1939), A Bell for Adano (1944), S.S. Glencairn (1947), Abraham Cochrane (1963), Charley's Aunt (1970), and Ring Around the Bathtub (1971).^[3]

Film and television

Stone made his motion-picture debut in the Alan Ladd film noir classic The Blue Dahlia (1946).^[4] He then went on to work in small but memorable roles in such films as The Harder They Fall (1956) with Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), The Garment Jungle (1957), The Invisible Boy (1957), Spartacus (1960), The Chapman Report (1962), X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Girl Happy (1965), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967, as Frank Nitti), The Big Mouth (1967), the Danish film The Olsen Gang in a Fix (1969), The Seven Minutes (1971), Mitchell (1975), and Hardly Working (1980).

By 1949, Stone began to work increasingly on television, as well as in films. That year, he co-starred on the short-lived live television

In 1969–1970, Stone portrayed Hamilton Greeley in the NBC comedy series My World and Welcome to It.^[6]: 737 He also played Sam Steinberg on the 1972-1973 CBS comedy Bridget Loves Bernie, and had the role of Charlie on the CBS comedy Joe and Sons (1975-1976).^{[6][6]: 536}

Stone eventually made more than 150 guest appearances on television series between the 1950s and mid-1980s. Some of those other series are

Stone was married twice. His first wife, Jean, died in 1960. He married again in 1962, but two years later separated from his second wife. He had two sons and one daughter.[1] Stone died on November 18, 2005, at age 92, from natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Retirement Home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.^[1][2]

Awards

In 1964, Stone was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in the

• The Blue Dahlia (1949)
• The Harder They Fall (1956) as Art Leavitt
• Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) as Nick Barbella
• Back from Eternity (1956) as Dealer (uncredited)
• The Wrong Man (1956) as Detective Lieutenant Bowers
• Slander
  (1957) as Seth Jackson
• Man Afraid (1957) as Lieutenant Marlin
• The Garment Jungle (1957) as Tony
• House of Numbers (1957) as Henry Nova - Prison Guard
• The Invisible Boy (1957) as General Swayne
• These Thousand Hills (1959) as Ram Butler
• Spartacus (1960) as David
• The Chapman Report (1962) as Frank Garnell
• Showdown (1963) as Lavalle
• X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963) as Dr. Sam Brant
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as General Varus
• Girl Happy (1965) as Big Frank
• Affair with a Killer (1966) edited a two-part episode (Don't Forget to Wipe the Blood Off) from the television series Seaway together into a feature film.
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) as Frank Nitti
• The Big Mouth (1967) as Thor
• The Olsen Gang in a Fix (1969) as Serafimo Mozerella
• Which Way to the Front? (1970) as General Buck
• The Seven Minutes (1971) as Judge Upshaw
• Pickup on 101 (1972) as 2nd Farmer
• The Photographer (1974) as Lieutenant Luther Jacoby
• The Wild McCullochs (1975) as George
• Mitchell (1975) as Tony Gallano
• Hardly Working (1980) as Frank Loucazi

Television appearances (selected)

• Wagon Train 'The Zeke Thomas Story' as Zeke Thomas (1957)
• The Rifleman, "The Home Ranch" as Oat Jackford (1958), "Trail of Hate" as "Benjamin Stark" (1960) and "The Bullet" as "The Marshall" (1963)
• Bonanza, "The Hostage" as "Chad Cord" (1964)
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, "Mutiny" as "Admiral Jiggs Starke" (1965)
• The Virginian, "The Laramie Road" as "Ev Clinchy" (1965), "The Mark of a Man" as "Jake" (1966), "Ride to Delphi" as "Einar Carlson" (1966), "Death Wait" as "Grant Buchanan" (1969) and "Holocaust" as "Adam Southcort" (1970)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The It's All Greek to Me Affair" as "Stavros Macropalous" (1967)
• The Hartmans, "The Handyman" (1949)
• The Walter Winchell File, "The Decision" as "Bender" (1957) and "Death Comes in a Small Package: File #37" as "Lieutenant Hauser" (1959)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  • (Season 2 Episode 31: "The Night the World Ended") as "Mr. Halloran" (1957)
  • (Season 3 Episode 28: "Lamb to the Slaughter") as "Lieutenant Jack Noonan" (1958)
  • (Season 6 Episode 38: "Ambition") as "Mac Davis" (1961)
• The Restless Gun, "Sheriff Billy" as "Ben Reed" (1958)
• Trackdown, "The Witness" as "Aaron Yewcic" (1958), "The School Teacher" as "Quince Flanders" (1958) and "Fear" as "Ambrose Hooker" (1959)
• Wanted Dead or Alive, “The Cure” in a comedic role as the reformed town drunk "Harry Simmons" (1960)
• Have Gun Will Travel
  , "A Matter Of Ethics" as "Holgate" (1957), "Helen of Abajinian" as "Samuel Abajinian" (1957) and "The Last Judgement" as "Judge Greenleaf" (1961)
• The Twilight Zone, "The Arrival" as "Grant Sheckly" (1961) (S3E2)
• Cheyenne, "The Last Comanchero" as "Rafe Larkin" (1958) and "The Wedding Rings" as "Perez" (1962)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  • (Season 1 Episode 9: "The Black Curtain") (1962) as Maury Epstein, the Taxi Driver
  • (Season 2 Episode 30: "The Second Verdict") (1964) as Mr. Osterman
• Hogan's Heroes, "Bad Day in Berlin" as "Major Teppel", "The Defector" as "Field Marshal Rudolph Richter", "Look at the Pretty Snowflakes" as "General Strommberger"
• Gunsmoke, "He Who Lives by the Sword" as "Joe Delk" (1957), "Letter of the Law" as "Judge Rambeau" (1958), "Buffalo Hunter" as "Gatluf" (1959), "Miss Kitty" as "Horace" (1961), "Homecoming" as "Orval" (1964), "Hung High" as "Jim Downey" (1964) and "He Who Steals" as "Jeff Sutro" (1965), (but is totally left off the credits as producers listed the wrong actors and characters of the episode).
• Gilligan's Island, "Goodbye Old Paint" as "Alexandre Gregor Dubov" (1965)
• The Big Valley, "Teacher of Outlaws", as the outlaw leader "Sam" (1966)
• Get Smart, "Ship of Spies Part 1" as "Captain Groman" (1966) and "Ship of Spies Part 2" as "Captain Groman" (1966)
• Mission: Impossible, "Blind" as "John Lawton" (1971)
• Welcome Back, Kotter, "Kotter and Son" as "Charlie Kotter" (Gabe's father) (1977)
• Three's Company, "The Loan Shark" as "Bernie Bustamente" (1979)
• Barney Miller, "Kidnapping: Part 1 and 2" as "Mr. Siegel" (1978) and "Homicide: Part 1 and 2" as "Steven Haddad" (1980)
• Highway to Heaven, "Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind" as "Harvey Milsap" (1986)

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