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Dean Stockwell: Quantum Leap
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Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 Hollywood, California - ) is an American actor best remembered for his role as Al Calavicci on the series Quantum Leap. Stockwell ... plays a [[Cylon] on the reimagined series Battlestar Galactica. Other notable genre appearances include The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible, Night Gallery, The Werewolf of Washington, Enterprise, and the 2004 film The Manchurian Candidate.
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(ATLANTA, GA) - Award winning actor, Dean Stockwell finally makes the leap to Dragon*Con as a first time guest. Though Stockwell has over 125 film and television credits to his name and successfully made the transition from child actor to adult star, fandom probably best remembers him as Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci on the quirky time travel TV series Quantum Leap.
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During the 1940s Stockwell was a popular child actor, appearing with Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) and in The Secret Garden (1949). His success continued into adulthood. Together withJason Robards and Ralph Richardson, he won Best Actor at Cannes for playing in Long Day's Journey into Night (1962); he'd formerly won the award for his performance in Compulsion (1959), shared with Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman. Stockwell ... appeared in Blue Velvet (1986), Air Force One (1997), and The Rainmaker (1997). He also co-starred in television's Quantum Leap (1989–93). He was nominated for an Oscar for playing a mafia don in Married to the Mob (1988).
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Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American film and television actor, active for over 60 years. He played Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci in the NBC television series Quantum Leap, and currently appears in the Sci Fi Channel revival of Battlestar Galactica as Brother Cavil.
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Stockwell came home to Hollywood in 1968, playing the attic-dwelling mystery man in the drug-addled Psych-Out with Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern. With only occasional disappearances he has worked steadily in films and television ever since. He played Harry Dean Stanton's brother in Paris, Texas, the deranged maniac at the heart of Blue Velvet with Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper, the Mafia boss in Married to the Mob with Michelle Pfeiffer, and the producer in Robert Altman's The Player. On TV, he played the cigar-chomping hologram alongside Scott Bakula in TV's Quantum Leap, and had recurring roles on JAG and the new improved Battlestar Galactica.
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Stockwell continues to act, most recently in the recurring role as Secretary of the Navy Sheffield in JAG. He was ... in the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate. Quantum Leap: A Bold Leap Forward, is being developed as a TV movie and would feature Stockwell reprising his role as Al with Sam Beckett's daughter as a new leaper. Stockwell is also currently working on a film with LOTR's star Sean Astin titled Once in a Lifetime.
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