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Harold J. Stone is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 3 march 1913 at New York City (USA)

Harold J. Stone

Harold J. Stone
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Birth name Harold Hochstein
Nationality USA
Birth 3 march 1913 at New York City (USA)
Death 18 november 2005 (at 92 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Harold J. Stone (March 3, 1913 – November 18, 2005) was an American stage, radio, 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). In 1949, he co-starred on the short-lived live television sitcom The Hartmans. He then went on to work in small but memorable roles in such films as The Harder They Fall (1956) with Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), The Garment Jungle (1957), The Invisible Boy (1957), Spartacus (1960), The Chapman Report (1962), X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Girl Happy (1965), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967, as Frank Nitti), The Big Mouth (1967), The Seven Minutes (1971), Mitchell (1975) and Hardly Working (1980).

Although Stone went 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 dating from the 1950s to the early 1980s, including but not limited to the following:

U.S. Marshal, Stagecoach West (the 1960 episode "Red Sand" with Dean Jones), The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Cimarron City, The Restless Gun, The Alaskans, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Sugarfoot, The Islanders, The Tall Man, The Roaring 20's, Empire, I Spy, The Virginian, The Untouchables, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Mr. Novak, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Big Valley, Trackdown (3 episodes), Going My Way, Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes, Mannix, Get Smart, Griff, and Charlie's Angels.

On January 14, 1958, he played the brutal Rafe Larkin, "The Last Comanchero", in the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Cheyenne, with Clint Walker in the title role. In the story line, Larkin is captured in the New Mexico Territory and has been jailed by Cheyenne Bodie, acting as a marshal, to await trial for the murder of a couple and the burning of their ranch house. Edd Byrnes plays Benji Danton, the son of the slain couple whose girlfriend is being held hostage by Larkin's only surviving son. The key to resolution of the story is illuminating material left by an itinerant photographer seeking to capture the spirit of the Old West.

In the 1961–1962 season, Stone appeared three times in Stephen McNally's ABC crime drama Target: The Corruptors!. In 1963, he appeared with Marsha Hunt in the ABC medical drama Breaking Point in an episode which was nominated for an Emmy Award for writing. In September 1964, he appeared in the Western series, Bonanza ("The Hostage"). Also in 1964, Stone appeared on Daniel Boone starring Fess Parker (in the episode entitled "The Fluellen Family" as Greenbriar). Stone was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in CBS's The Nurses.

In the 1960s and 1970s, while continuing to work in television, most notably as a regular on 1973's short-lived Bridget Loves Bernie, Stone returned to the stage, directing several off-Broadway and Broadway productions, including Ernest in Love and Charley's Aunt.

Usually with

Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
(3 films)
Roger Corman
Roger Corman
(3 films)
Paul Baxley
Paul Baxley
(2 films)
Russell Rouse
Russell Rouse
(2 films)
Dick Miller
Dick Miller
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Harold J. Stone (29 films)

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Hardly Working, 1h31
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Deanna Lund, Roger C. Carmel, Harold J. Stone, Steve Franken
Roles Frank Loucazi
Rating47% 2.3607152.3607152.3607152.3607152.360715
Bo Hooper (Lewis), a clown, finds himself unemployed when the circus where he works suddenly closes. He winds up living with his sister (Susan Oliver), against the wishes of her husband Robert (Roger C. Carmel). From there he goes from job to job, wreaking havoc along the way. He finally finds some stability as a postal worker, until he finds out that his boss is his girlfriend's father. The father hates all mail carriers because his daughter's ex-husband was one, so he tries to wreck Bo's life, but Bo overcomes the odds and succeeds not only at work, but at impressing the father.
"Mitchell"!, 1h37
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Morgan Paull, Harold J. Stone
Roles Tony Gallano
Rating27% 1.3575951.3575951.3575951.3575951.357595
A trade union lawyer named Walter Deaney (John Saxon) kills a burglar in his house. Only an unorthodox plain-clothes detective named Mitchell (Joe Don Baker) believes that Deaney is guilty of something more than self-defense, but Chief Albert Pallin (Robert Phillips) tells him that Deaney is wanted for "every federal law violation in the book" and is therefore "FBI property."
The Werewolf of Woodstock
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors Harold J. Stone, Michael Parks, Meredith MacRae, Ann Doran, Richard Webb, Belinda Balaski
Roles Lt. Martino
Rating45% 2.281822.281822.281822.281822.28182
After Woodstock has ended, a hippie-hating farmer (Tige Andrews) gets turned into a werewolf when he gets a massive jolt of electricity trying to destroy a leftover piece of equipment one of the bands left behind. The family doctor bandages him up and recommends lots of bed rest, but during the very next electrical storm he transforms into a snarling hairy horror.
The Seven Minutes, 1h55
Directed by Russ Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Wayne E. Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey, Edy Williams, Jay C. Flippen, David Brian
Roles Judge Upshaw
Rating55% 2.760752.760752.760752.760752.76075
After a teenager who purchased the erotic novel The Seven Minutes is charged with rape, an
Which Way to the Front?, 1h32
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray, Joe Besser, Kathleen Freeman, Kaye Ballard, John Wood
Roles . General Buck
Rating46% 2.310982.310982.310982.310982.31098
Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis) is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F. He really wants to fight, so he enlists other 4-Fs and some loyal volunteers from his own service staff and forms his own army. He finances their training and equipment. Once completed, they travel to the front in Italy, with Byers impersonating a Nazi general named Eric Kesselring.
The Big Mouth, 1h45
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Harold J. Stone, Buddy Lester, Jeannine Riley, Susan Bay, Frank De Vol
Roles Thor
Rating55% 2.752512.752512.752512.752512.75251
Gerald Clamson (Lewis) is a bank examiner who loves fishing on his annual two week holiday. Unfortunately one day at the ocean he reels in an injured gangster in a scuba diving suit named Syd Valentine (also played by Lewis). Syd tells Gerald about diamonds he has stolen from the other gangsters and hands him a map. Gerald escapes as frogmen from a yacht machine gun the beach. They swim ashore and locate Syd where they machine gun him. Their leader Thor (Harold J. Stone) ensures Syd's demise by firing a torpedo from his yacht that goes ashore, blowing a crater into the beach.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1h36
Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Gangster films
Actors Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jack Nicholson, Jean Hale, Jan Merlin
Roles Frank Nitti
Rating65% 3.2961953.2961953.2961953.2961953.296195
An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George "Bugs" Moran's activity in the city. Moran, too, wants control of the town's bootlegging and gambling operations. His lieutenants Peter and Frank Gusenberg use threats and intimidation to make tavern owners do business with them in exchange for "protection." Moran gives the order to have a crony of Capone's eliminated as the Chicago body count escalates. Inclusive are flashbacks to a lunchtime attack on Capone at a restaurant outside of Chicago by Hymie Weiss and Moran in September 1926 and the murders of Weiss in October 1926 and Dion O'Banion in November 1924 by Capone's gang.
Girl Happy
Girl Happy (1965)
, 1h36
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone, Gary Crosby, Joby Baker, Nita Talbot
Roles Big Frank
Rating63% 3.150363.150363.150363.150363.15036
Nightclub singer Rusty Wells (Elvis) and his band have just closed their engagement at the club where they work in Chicago, and are just about ready to leave for their annual spring break trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida—that is, until the club's owner, Big Frank (Harold Stone), extends their stay at his club, foiling the band's plans for some sun and fun in Florida.
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, 1h19
Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Dick Miller, Don Rickles
Roles Sam Brant
Rating65% 3.299393.299393.299393.299393.29939
Le Dr Xavier a mis au point un liquide révolutionnaire qui permet d'étendre la vision au-delà du spectre visible. Il décide de le tester sur lui-même et obtient des résultats prometteurs, devenant capable de lire à travers une feuille de papier ou de voir les organes d'une patiente. En poursuivant les essais, il se rend compte que sa vision devient de plus en plus perçante mais aussi de moins en moins supportable…
Showdown
Showdown (1963)
, 1h19
Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Harold J. Stone, Kathleen Crowley, Skip Homeier, L. Q. Jones
Roles Lavalle
Rating61% 3.095963.095963.095963.095963.09596
Two cowboys, Chris Foster and Bert Pickett, go into town. Ben gets in a fight after getting drunk and he and Chris are put in iron collars, chained to a killer, LaValle. They manage to escape but La Valle wants them to rob a bank.
The Chapman Report, 2h5
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Ty Hardin, Glynis Johns, Efrem Zimbalist II
Roles Frank Garnell
Rating55% 2.753562.753562.753562.753562.75356
Los Angeles psychologist Chapman (Andrew Duggan) and his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) are looking for volunteers for their sex survey, and four women volunteer: Sarah Garnell (Shelley Winters), a middle-aged woman who is having an affair with young theater director Fred Linden (Ray Danton); Teresa Harnish (Glynis Johns), a happily married woman who becomes attracted to brawny football player Ed Kraski (Ty Hardin); Naomi Shields (Claire Bloom), an alcoholic nymphomaniac who takes up with an unsavory jazz musician; and Kathleen Barclay (Jane Fonda), a young widow who thinks she is frigid.
The Premature Burial, 1h21
Directed by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Actors Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Alan Napier, Heather Angel, Richard Ney, John Dierkes
Rating64% 3.2462353.2462353.2462353.2462353.246235
Set in the early dark Victorian-era 1830s or 1840s (also similar to Charles Dickens' fiction of rain-soaked London streets), it follows Guy Carrell, who is obsessed with the fear of death. He is most obsessed with the fear of being buried alive. Though his fiancee Emily says he has nothing to be afraid of, he still thinks he will be buried alive (a common fear and in reality an occasional occurrence). So deluded, he seeks help from a few people, including his sister, but he still is haunted by the fear of death and the sense that someone close wants him dead.