Paul Stewart
Acting
Born 1908-03-13
Died 1986-02-17
New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
33 credits
Perry Mason
Columbo
MacGyver
Mission: Impossible
Hawaii Five-O
Mannix
The Rockford Files
Dr. Kildare
Climax!
Remington Steele
The F.B.I.
Gunsmoke
The Name of the Game
Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Citizen Kane
Cain's Hundred
Profiles in Courage
Matt Helm
Cassie & Co.
In Cold Blood
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Revenge of the Pink Panther
The Dain Curse
Deadline
On Trial
The Other Side of the Wind
Kiss Me Deadly
Deadline - U.S.A.
King Creole
Power
F for Fake
The Bad and the Beautiful
Other credits
15 credits
Ironside
Cannon
Lights Out
The Streets of San Francisco
Ellery Queen
McMillan & Wife
The Mod Squad
Inner Sanctum
The Sixth Sense
The Outsider
Johnny Staccato
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
Breaking Point
Panic!
The Asphalt Jungle
Directing
12 credits
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Twilight Zone
Lawman
Peter Gunn
The Defenders
Hawaiian Eye
Checkmate
M Squad
87th Precinct
Going My Way
Philip Marlowe
Michael Shayne
Producing
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