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Harold J. Stone

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
3 March 1911, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death / Ölüm Tarihi
18 November 2005, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. (natural causes)

Birth Name / Gerçek Adı
Harold Jacob Hochstein

Mini Biography / Biyografi
Never a big name but always a reliable staple on TV crime shows during the 1960s and 1970s, Harold J. Stone usually was seen in a strong, unsympathetic vein--an unyielding father or husband, corrupt businessman, menacing crime figure, etc. A sober-looking gent with a block jaw, Romanesque-styled nose and steely gray-black hair, he was also prone to playing ethnic characters of varying origins. The scion of an acting family who established themselves in the Yiddish theater, Stone started on stage with his father as a child. He once entertained a career in medicine, attaining a BA degree at the University of Buffalo Medical School, but acting proved too strong a desire. After initially finding work in radio, Stone made his Broadway bow with "The World We Make" (1939), which led to other productions such as Morning Star" (1940) and "A Bell for Adano" (1944). His unbilled film debut came with the Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake noir classic The Blue Dahlia (1946). He went on to provide a minor shady presence in such "A" films as Humphrey Bogart's The Harder They Fall (1956), Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), the Rocky Graziano biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), the ultimate gladiator spectacle Spartacus (1960) and the gangster epic The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) in which he played Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, but none of these did much to improve his standing. Television, on the other hand, became a steady medium for Stone, and he became a fixture in hundreds of police dramas including _"77 Sunset Strip" (1958/I)_ , "Naked City" (1958), "The Untouchables" (1959), "Mannix" (1967), "Mission: Impossible" (1966), "The Rockford Files" (1974) and "Kojak" (1973). Left a widower by his first wife in 1960, by whom he had two children, he retired in the mid-1980s with his second wife (from 1962), who gave him another child. IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Longtime friend of Jerry Lewis who cast Harold in three of his films.A third-generation actor, his father was Yiddish actor Jacob Hochstein. Harold made his stage debut with him at age 6 in ""White Slaves."" Supposedly he had but one line -- ""Mama"" -- which he failed to remember on opening night. The initial ""J"" in Harold's name stood for Jacob.Following first wife Jean's death in 1960, leaving him with two children, Harold remarried later that year to Miriam. They legally separated in 1964 but never divorced.Jerry Lewis directed him in The Big Mouth (1967) and signed a photograph of the pair from the film: ""For Harold, a beautiful man, an exceptional actor and the kind of performer that makes fair directors look great."".

Personal Quotes / Kişisel Alıntılar
""I don't think there are any roles I haven't played.""