RIP: Dean Stockwell, 85

[thewayne]

What a career! Born into a family of performers going back into vaudeville, Dean had a career spanning over five decades: he was a child actor, appeared in Long Day's Journey Into Night, Battlestar Galactica which led to many TV series roles, his recurring series as the holographic sidekick Al to Sam in Quantum Leap. But what I did not know, and will henceforth cherish, is he voiced Duke Nukem.

You had an amazing career, sir. Rest in peace, you've earned it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/dean-stockwell-dead-obit-1255247

Comments

[elayna]

Oh, that’s sad. I loved Dean.

[dewline]

I think it was his work on Quantum Leap that eventually got him the "Brother(s) John Cavil" role on "Second Galactica"...and yes, it was indeed an amazing career he had.

I was just thinking the other day...

[dauntless_heart]

...with the renewed interest in Dune, how he played Dr. Yueh in 1984.

My hubby and I are also big Quantum Leap fans...

Re: I was just thinking the other day...

[thewayne]

Quantum Leap was such a unique and fun series, and so much relied upon the chemistry between Sam and Al.  It's unlikely it would have been as successful without that chemistry.

[silveradept]

That's him in Duke Nukem 3D? That's...that's something I wouldn't have expected, given his role on Quantum Leap.

[thewayne]

Apparently!  I was equally flabbergasted.  Duke 3D was, IIRC, perhaps the first FPS that I was able to complete that I enjoyed: Quake and Doom were so grim.  I didn't like the misogyny aspects, but I loved the jetpacks and stickybombs and such.

[silveradept]

It was definitely different from Doom and Quake, both in content (the first level in the adult theater) and in the kind of weapons and tools available to do things with. (It was also the first game where the rating system setting actually changed things.) I never finished that much pay the first few shareware levels, so maybe at some nostalgic point, I'll go back and actually play it.

[thewayne]

The graphics were terrible, but all games at that time had pretty terrible graphics.