Jeffrey Stone spent 14 years in the film industry in Hollywood, Italy and Spain. The start to his career came as the model for "Prince Charming" in Disney's "Cinderella". He went on to play "D'Artagnan" in the TV series, The Three Musketeers (1956) (aka The Three Musketeers). He appeared in numerous movies and guest appearances on TV. He was under...
Hollywood was the best time of my life. I was young and in an industry full of glamour and excitement, the whole ball of wax. Looking back, the big imponderable is what would have happened if I hadn't left the States. Famous film writer? Director? Character actor? Who knows. But I have no regrets. Nope, no regrets what-so-ever!
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Lives in Malaysia, a resident there for the past 40 years, where he continues to write novels and screenplays. [July 2007]
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At one time operated a perfume business in Singapore called Perfumes of the Orient. Also opened the first steak house and laundromat there. Also opened some antique shops in Malaysia.
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After leaving the country he trekked through Tahiti, Bora Bora, Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Then traveled to Burma, Thailand, India, Vietnam and Japan before resettling in Malaysia.
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His acting career was fatally jeopardized in the early 1960s due to an unfortunate connection to gangster Mickey Cohen. He left Hollywood and moved to New York to write commercials and a few series episodes but could not get representation. He co-wrote the script for the film Unearthly Stranger (1963). Eventually left the country.
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Turned down the role of Zorro in the late 1950s Disney TV series.
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More recently published the novel "Letters to Rainbow", a sexy adventure story set in modern day Asia. A sequel entitled "The Other Side of Rainbow" is set to be published toward the end of 2007.
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Changed his name in 1954 from John Fontaine to Jeffrey Stone because it was too close to the name of actress Joan Fontaine. During their Selznick years at the same studio, the actors kept receiving each mail for the other. One time at a premiere he was even embarrassingly introduced as Joan Fontaine.
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Faked his age and joined the Navy at age 16 and served during WWII. Received a medical discharge due to an ear infection that result in perforated ear drums.
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Spent much of his childhood raised at the Soldiers' & Sailors' Children's Home, an orphanage in Knightstown, Indiana. His father, whom he didn't know, was killed in a car accident when he was a toddler. He didn't live with his mother and stepfather until much later. The youngest of three boys, his oldest brother was a Marine who died in WWII.
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Briefly married to actress Barbara Lawrence in 1947; he had one son, Robin, via his marriage to second wife/actress Corinne Calvet in the 1950s.
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