Although younger brother Dean Stockwell is perhaps the better known actor of the two, Guy Stockwell was a seriously handsome, reliable performer over the years, appearing in over 30 films and 200 television shows. The son of singing performer Harry Stockwell and Nina Olivette (she also went by the name Betty Veronica), their mother sent both Dean ...
Douglas Stockwell, Kerry Stockwell, Victoria Stockwell
Parents
Harry Stockwell, Nina Olivette
Siblings
Dean Stockwell
Movies
Santa Sangre, The War Lord, Tobruk, Beau Geste, The Gatling Gun, The Plainsman, It's Alive, The King's Pirate, Airport 1975, In Enemy Country, The Monitors, Three Swords of Zorro, And Now Miguel, Blindfold, The Disappearance of Flight 412, Burned at the Stake, Banning, Grotesque, Curse of the Gold M...
TV Shows
Return to Peyton Place, The Richard Boone Show, Adventures in Paradise
Guy's professional career began teaching school in Dutch Flats, California in order to support his young family. He later turned to acting.
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As an acting teacher (from 1960), he patterned his work after Stanislavsky in modeling behavior, while shortcutting psychoanalytic methods used by Lee Strasberg and others in stirring up emotion and motivation.
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Stockwell also made a name for himself as an acting teacher in Los Angeles, where he also produced plays at a number of small theaters. He also taught in the master's program for acting at UCLA.
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He helped create the Los Angeles Art Theater. He also traveled across the country, starring in "Seagull," "Born Yesterday" and "The Misanthrope," and he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles for two years in the masters program for acting. He had two sons and one daughter.
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Son of Nina Olivette and Harry Stockwell. His mother was born Elizabeth Margaret Veronica and also went by "Betty Veronica" as a stage name. She was a vaudeville musical performer who retired to raise Guy and brother Dean. His father provided the singing voice of "The Prince" in the animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
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