Paul Stewart
Known For
Acting
Born
1908-03-13 in New York City, New York, USA
Died
1986-02-17
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Columbo
as Clifford Paris
Perry Mason
as J. J. Pennington
Perry Mason
as Cameron Burgess
MacGyver
as Dr. Carl Steubens
Mission: Impossible
as Jonas Stone
The Rockford Files
as Julius 'Buddy' Richards
Hawaii Five-O
as Willard Lennox
Ironside
Mannix
as Dr. Halder
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Giuseppe Muretelli
Climax!
as Dave Hennessey
Climax!
as Paul Crichton
Cannon
The F.B.I.
as Reese
Gunsmoke
as Sanders
Remington Steele
as Joseph Barber
The Name of the Game
as Dr. Rubias
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Vincent Noonan
