Paul Stewart
0 FOLLOWERS • 43 CREDITS • MAR 13, 1908 - FEB 17, 1986 • 77
Biography
Paul Stewart (March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor known for his tough, guttural voice. He frequently portrayed villains and mobsters throughout his lengthy career.
Born Paul Sternberg in New York City, Stewart graduated from Columbia University and made his Broadway theatre debut in the play Two Seconds in 1931. A few years later he met Orson Welles, who invited him to join the Mercury Theatre, where he participated in the notorious 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. He was a founding member of AFTRA.
Sternberg's many screen credits include Citizen Kane, Twelve O'Clock High, Champion, Kiss Me Deadly, The Bad and the Beautiful, In Cold Blood, The Day of the Locust, S.O.B., and W.C. Fields and Me, in which he portrayed Florenz Ziegfeld. On television, he appeared in Playhouse 90, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alcoa Theatre, Dr. Kildare, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, It Takes a Thief, Mannix, The Name of the Game, McMillan & Wife, Mission Impossible,The Rockford Files, Lou Grant, and Remington Steele, among many others. He also directed some television episodes, among them "Little Girl Lost", from the Twilight Zone.
Stewart was married to big band singer/actress Peg La Centra from 1939 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 77. He was characterized in the 1999 television movie RKO 281.
Known For
Perry Mason
Ironside
The Rockford Files
Gunsmoke
Columbo
The Name of the Game
Hawaii Five-O
Dr. Kildare
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Cain's Hundred
The F.B.I.
Remington Steele
Suspense
MacGyver
Mission: Impossible
Ellery Queen
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Outsider
Profiles in Courage
Climax!
Cannon
Mannix
McMillan and Wife
The Day of the Locust
S.O.B.
The Pilot
Power
The Other Side of the Wind
King Creole
F for Fake
Citizen Kane
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
The Dain Curse
Appointment with Danger
Lights Out
Production Credits
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