Paul Stewart

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: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1908-03-13

Died: 1986-02-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1937	Ever Since Eve	Cocktail Customer (uncredited)	58
2	1941	Citizen Kane	Raymond	80
3	1941	Johnny Eager	Julio	61
4	1942	The World at War	Narrator (voice)	68
5	1943	Mr. Lucky	Zepp	70
6	1943	Government Girl	Branch Owens	52
7	1948	Berlin Express	Narrator (voice)	62
8	1949	Champion	Tommy Haley	66
9	1949	The Window	Joe Kellerson	69
10	1949	Illegal Entry	Zack Richards	54
11	1949	Easy Living	Dave Argus	59
12	1949	She Loves Me Not	Paul Lawton	0
13	1949	Twelve O'Clock High	Major "Doc" Kaiser (flight surgeon)	71
14	1950	Appointment with Danger	Earl Boettiger	56
15	1950	Edge of Doom	Mr. Craig	59
16	1950	Walk Softly, Stranger	Whitey Lake	50
17	1952	Deadline - U.S.A.	Harry Thompson	68
18	1952	Carbine Williams	'Dutch' Kruger	64
19	1952	Loan Shark	Lou Donelli	55
20	1952	We're Not Married!	Attorney Stone	59
21	1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	Syd Murphy	73
22	1953	The Juggler	Detective Karni	65
23	1953	The Joe Louis Story	Tad McGeehan	59
24	1954	Prisoner of War	Capt. Jack Hodges	39
25	1954	Deep in My Heart	Bert Townsend	68
26	1955	Kiss Me Deadly	Carl Evello	72
27	1955	The Cobweb	Dr. Otto Wolff	58
28	1955	Chicago Syndicate	Arnold 'Arnie' Valent	58
29	1955	Hell on Frisco Bay	Joe Lye	52
30	1956	Confession	Martin Hoeffer	0
31	1956	The Wild Party	Ben Davis	58
32	1957	Not One Shall Die	Kellerman	0
33	1957	Top Secret Affair	Phil Bentley	46
34	1958	King Creole	Charlie LeGrand	64
35	1959	Beyond All Limits	Pendergrest	52
36	1963	A Child Is Waiting	Goodman	68
37	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Questor	64
38	1967	In Cold Blood	Jensen	75
39	1968	Jigsaw	Dr. Simon Joshua	60
40	1969	How to Commit Marriage	Willoughby	48
41	1971	City Beneath the Sea	Barton	41
42	1972	Fabulous Trinity	Charles	50
43	1973	F for Fake	Self	74
44	1975	The Day of the Locust	Helverston	64
45	1975	Carter's Army	Gen. Clark	40
46	1975	Murph the Surf	Avery	10
47	1975	Bite the Bullet	J.B. Parker (uncredited)	64
48	1976	W.C. Fields and Me	Florenz Ziegfeld	78
49	1977	Opening Night	David Samuels	76
50	1978	Revenge of the Pink Panther	Julio Scallini	64
51	1978	The Nativity	Zacharias	60
52	1980	Power	Vince Ianelli	20
53	1980	The Pilot	2nd Mechanic	67
54	1981	S.O.B.	Harry Sandler	59
55	1981	Nobody's Perfekt	Dr. Segal	34
56	1982	Tempest	Phillip's Father	60
57	2010	Hollywood Classic Special		0
58	2018	The Other Side of the Wind	Matt Costello	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	Suspense	Sam Cragg	49
2	1949	Lights Out		53
3	1954	Inner Sanctum		70
4	1954	Climax!	Dave Hennessey	33
5	1954	Climax!	Paul Crichton	33
6	1955	Gunsmoke	Sanders	66
7	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Vincent Noonan	77
8	1957	Panic!		0
9	1957	Perry Mason	J. J. Pennington	77
10	1957	Perry Mason	Cameron Burgess	77
11	1959	Johnny Staccato		56
12	1959	Deadline	Narrator / Host	60
13	1959	Deadline	Host / Narrator	60
14	1961	The Asphalt Jungle		50
15	1961	Cain's Hundred	Alexander Marish	47
16	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Giuseppe Muretelli	55
17	1963	Breaking Point		73
18	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
19	1964	Profiles in Courage	Louis D. Brandeis	50
20	1965	The F.B.I.	Reese	55
21	1966	Mission: Impossible	Jonas Stone	76
22	1967	Ironside		68
23	1967	Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor		59
24	1967	Mannix	Dr. Halder	67
25	1968	The Outsider		52
26	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Willard Lennox	71
27	1968	The Name of the Game	Dr. Rubias	68
28	1968	The Mod Squad		63
29	1971	Cannon		65
30	1971	Columbo	Clifford Paris	81
31	1971	McMillan & Wife		69
32	1972	The Sixth Sense		63
33	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
34	1974	The Rockford Files	Julius 'Buddy' Richards	75
35	1975	Ellery Queen		74
36	1975	Matt Helm	Joe Delphia	74
37	1978	The Dain Curse	The Old Man	62
38	1982	Remington Steele	Joseph Barber	71
39	1985	MacGyver	Dr. Carl Steubens	77

Paul Stewart

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