Harold J. Stone

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Harold J. Stone (March 13, 1913 – November 18, 2005) was an American film and television character actor.

Born Harold Hochstein to a Jewish acting family, he began his career on Broadway in 1939 and appeared in five plays in the next six years, including One Touch of Venus and Stalag 17, following which he made his motion picture debut in the Alan Ladd film noir classic The Blue Dahlia (1946). He went on to work in small but memorable roles in such films as The Harder They Fall with Humphrey Bogart (1956), Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), and Spartacus (1960). Although he would go on to perform secondary roles in a number of films, he became a recognizable face to television viewers for his more than 150 guest appearances on numerous shows (for example, I Spy and The Twilight Zone) from the 1950s through to the early 1980s. In 1964 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Nurses.

In the 1960s and 70s, while continuing to work in television, Stone returned to the stage, directing several off-Broadway and Broadway productions, including Ernest in Love and Charley's Aunt.

[edit] External links

• Harold J. Stone at the Internet Movie Database
• Internet Broadway Database listing