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Harold J. Stone

January 01, 1970

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

Harold J. Stone
Stone in 1972
Born
Harold Hochstein

(1913-03-03)March 3, 1913
DiedNovember 18, 2005(2005-11-18) (aged 92)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actor, stage director
Years active1939–1986
Spouse(s)Jean (m. ?–1960) (her death) (2 children)
Miriam
​
(m. 1962⁠–⁠2005)​
(his death) (1 child)[1]

Early life and stage career edit

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 edit

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 sitcom The Hartmans. He also performed as Jake Goldberg in the comedy-drama The Goldbergs and as Lieutenant Hauser in the crime series The Walter Winchell File.[4] In 1958, he played Rafe Larkin in the episode "The Last Comanchero" on the ABC/Warner Bros. Western series Cheyenne, and the next year he co-starred as a principal investigator in the syndicated series Grand Jury.[5] In the 1961–1962 season, Stone appeared three times in Stephen McNally's ABC crime drama Target: The Corruptors!. Then, in 1963, he appeared with Marsha Hunt in the ABC medical drama Breaking Point. In September 1964, he appeared in the Western series Bonanza in the episode "The Hostage". Also in 1964, Stone performed as the character of Greenbriar in the episode "The Fluellen Family" on the action-adventure series Daniel Boone.

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 U.S. Marshal, Stagecoach West, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Cimarron City, The Restless Gun, The Alaskans, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Sugarfoot, The Islanders, The Tall Man, The Roaring 20's, Empire, I Spy, The Virginian, The Untouchables, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Mr. Novak, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Big Valley, Trackdown (three episodes),[citation needed] Going My Way, Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes (three episodes), Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Get Smart, Griff, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Welcome Back Kotter, Three's Company, Barney Miller (three episodes) and Charlie's Angels.

Personal life and death edit

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 edit

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 CBS dramatic series The Nurses.[7]

Filmography edit

Television appearances (selected) edit

  • 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)

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Nelson, Valerie J. (November 19, 2005). . Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Harold Stone, 92, Character Actor, Dies". The New York Times. November 22, 2005. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  3. ^ "("Harold Stone" search results)". Playbill. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  4. ^ a b Lentz, Harris M. III (2006). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2005: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. pp. 353–354. ISBN 978-0-7864-5210-1. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  5. ^ Erickson, Hal (November 5, 2001). Syndicated television: The first forty years, 1947-1987. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Classics. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-7864-1198-6.
  6. ^ a b c Terrace, Vincent (October 6, 2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  7. ^ . Television Academy. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Harold J Stone news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message Harold J Stone born Harold Hochstein March 3 1913 November 18 2005 was an American stage radio film and television character actor 2 Harold J StoneStone in 1972BornHarold Hochstein 1913 03 03 March 3 1913DiedNovember 18 2005 2005 11 18 aged 92 Woodland Hills Los Angeles California U S Occupation s Actor stage directorYears active1939 1986Spouse s Jean m 1960 her death 2 children Miriam m 1962 2005 wbr his death 1 child 1 Contents 1 Early life and stage career 2 Film and television 3 Personal life and death 4 Awards 5 Filmography 6 Television appearances selected 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and stage career editStone 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 editStone 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 sitcom The Hartmans He also performed as Jake Goldberg in the comedy drama The Goldbergs and as Lieutenant Hauser in the crime series The Walter Winchell File 4 In 1958 he played Rafe Larkin in the episode The Last Comanchero on the ABC Warner Bros Western series Cheyenne and the next year he co starred as a principal investigator in the syndicated series Grand Jury 5 In the 1961 1962 season Stone appeared three times in Stephen McNally s ABC crime drama Target The Corruptors Then in 1963 he appeared with Marsha Hunt in the ABC medical drama Breaking Point In September 1964 he appeared in the Western series Bonanza in the episode The Hostage Also in 1964 Stone performed as the character of Greenbriar in the episode The Fluellen Family on the action adventure series Daniel Boone 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 U S Marshal Stagecoach West The Rifleman Gunsmoke Wagon Train Cimarron City The Restless Gun The Alaskans The Barbara Stanwyck Show Sugarfoot The Islanders The Tall Man The Roaring 20 s Empire I Spy The Virginian The Untouchables Wanted Dead or Alive Mr Novak The Twilight Zone Route 66 Have Gun Will Travel The Big Valley Trackdown three episodes citation needed Going My Way Gilligan s Island Hogan s Heroes three episodes Hawaii Five O Mannix Get Smart Griff Alfred Hitchcock Presents Welcome Back Kotter Three s Company Barney Miller three episodes and Charlie s Angels Personal life and death editStone 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 editIn 1964 Stone was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in the CBS dramatic series The Nurses 7 Filmography editThe 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 LoucaziTelevision appearances selected editWagon 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 References edit a b c d Nelson Valerie J November 19 2005 Harold Stone 92 Busy Character Actor Often Played Villain Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on 22 August 2017 Retrieved 22 August 2017 a b Harold Stone 92 Character Actor Dies The New York Times November 22 2005 Retrieved 30 March 2012 Harold Stone search results Playbill Archived from the original on August 22 2017 Retrieved August 22 2017 a b Lentz Harris M III 2006 Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2005 Film Television Radio Theatre Dance Music Cartoons and Pop Culture McFarland pp 353 354 ISBN 978 0 7864 5210 1 Retrieved 22 August 2017 Erickson Hal November 5 2001 Syndicated television The first forty years 1947 1987 Jefferson N C McFarland Classics p 28 ISBN 978 0 7864 1198 6 a b c Terrace Vincent October 6 2011 Encyclopedia of Television Shows 1925 through 2010 2nd ed Jefferson N C McFarland p 136 ISBN 978 0 7864 6477 7 Awards Search Harold J Stone Television Academy Archived from the original on 22 August 2017 Retrieved 22 August 2017 External links edit nbsp Biography portal nbsp New York City portal nbsp California portal nbsp Theatre portal nbsp Film portal nbsp Television portal nbsp Judaism portal Harold J Stone at Find a Grave Harold J Stone at 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