News that Dean Stockwell ("Detained", Quantum Leap) has passed away at age 85

[Hopeful Romantic]

I saw today that Dean Stockwell, who costarred with Scott Bakula in Quantum Leap and reunited with him in the Enterprise episode "Detained," has passed away.

Here's a nice article about Dean's remarkable career, in the Hollywood Reporter.

Also a statement by Scott Bakula about Dean, also in the Hollywood Reporter.

"He became a dear friend and a mentor and we grew very close over the next five, very intense years," the actor says of their time on the classic sci-fi program.

 

[tomalak301]

He was in three series that I liked, and apparently he was in an episode of Stargate too. He was such a great actor and I really wish we would have seen Grat again. Still, reuniting Bakula and Stockwell for that one episode was great.

 

[thribs]

Just watched Dune with him recently. RIP

 

[JohnChod]

Of course, loved Mr. Stockwell in Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica.

RIP Dean.

The first Neil Young album I ever listened to was After the Goldrush. To this day, I believe it is not only my favorite work by Neil, but probably my favorite album of all time. I was always intrigued at seeing on the album cover that it was inspired by a screenplay by Dean Stockwell. I always thought, 'It's got to be another Dean Stockwell!" It sounds as if the story was really out there, but I think it's a shame that the screenplay no longer exists. I would have loved to have read it.

It appears that the eccentricities of Dennis Hopper were a major reason that the studios stayed away from it. Too bad - an off the wall 60's/70's movie penned by Stockwell with music by Neil Young? 'It would have been glorious!'

 

[somebuddyX]

As a kid I was was always weirded out when I saw him in Beverly Hills Cop II as some rando with a dirty porn stache because I was such a fan of Al and I couldn't separate him in my mind from that role.

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I loved him both as Al and Brother Cavill, night and day in those two performances. Cavill's speech was gold about wanting to be a robot but his stupid human creators made him in their image and all the wonderful stuff in the universe he can't feel or see because of those limitations.

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[Dryson]

Would Dean Stockwell have been a sustainable UFP starship captain in Trek?

 

[Sci]

Would Dean Stockwell have been a sustainable UFP starship captain in Trek?

He was an extremely talented actor who was more than capable of meeting job requirements as a series regular, as he demonstrated numerous times in his decades-long film and TV career and as he demonstrated during his tenure as a series regular on Quantum Leap. Of course he could have done well playing a series lead starship captain on a Star Trek show.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Would Dean Stockwell have been a sustainable UFP starship captain in Trek?

I think he'd have made a fantastic captain.

Growing up, for me he was Al, then later I came to admire him for his superlatively sinister Brother Cavill in BSG.

A sad loss, but 85 years is a decent innings and he certainly succeeded in creating iconic characters that will live on in the hearts and minds of viewers. Here's to you, Mr Stockwell. R.I.P.