Harold J. Stone (born Harold Hochstein, March 3, 1913 â€" November 18,
2005) was an American stage, radio, film, and television character
actor.Stone was born to a Jewish acting family. At age six, Stone
debuted on stage with his father, Jacob Hochstein, in the play White
Slaves. A graduate of New York University, he attended the University
of Buffalo to study medicine, but he soon altered those career plans
and decided instead to become a professional actor.After gaining
considerable acting experience in various plays during the 1930s,
Stone was finally cast on Broadway, where between 1939 and the early
1950s he appeared in a series of critically acclaimed productions such
as One Touch of Venus and Stalag 17. Some of his other Broadway
credits include Morning Star (1939), A Bell for Adano (1944), S.S.
Glencairn (1947), Abraham Cochrane (1963), Charley's Aunt (1970), and
Ring Around the Bathtub (1971). Later in his career, after working
extensively in films and television, Stone periodically returned to
the stage, where in the 1960s and 1970s he also directed several
off-Broadway and Broadway productions, including Ernest in Love and
Charley's Aunt.Stone made his motion picture debut in the Alan Ladd
film noir classic The Blue Dahlia (1946). He then went on to work in
small but memorable roles in such films as The Harder They Fall (1956)
with Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956),
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), The Garment Jungle (1957), The
Invisible Boy (1957), Spartacus (1960), The Chapman Report (1962), X:
The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965), Girl Happy (1965), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967, as
Frank Nitti), The Big Mouth (1967), The Seven Minutes (1971), Mitchell
(1975), and Hardly Working (1980).
2005) was an American stage, radio, film, and television character
actor.Stone was born to a Jewish acting family. At age six, Stone
debuted on stage with his father, Jacob Hochstein, in the play White
Slaves. A graduate of New York University, he attended the University
of Buffalo to study medicine, but he soon altered those career plans
and decided instead to become a professional actor.After gaining
considerable acting experience in various plays during the 1930s,
Stone was finally cast on Broadway, where between 1939 and the early
1950s he appeared in a series of critically acclaimed productions such
as One Touch of Venus and Stalag 17. Some of his other Broadway
credits include Morning Star (1939), A Bell for Adano (1944), S.S.
Glencairn (1947), Abraham Cochrane (1963), Charley's Aunt (1970), and
Ring Around the Bathtub (1971). Later in his career, after working
extensively in films and television, Stone periodically returned to
the stage, where in the 1960s and 1970s he also directed several
off-Broadway and Broadway productions, including Ernest in Love and
Charley's Aunt.Stone made his motion picture debut in the Alan Ladd
film noir classic The Blue Dahlia (1946). He then went on to work in
small but memorable roles in such films as The Harder They Fall (1956)
with Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956),
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), The Garment Jungle (1957), The
Invisible Boy (1957), Spartacus (1960), The Chapman Report (1962), X:
The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965), Girl Happy (1965), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967, as
Frank Nitti), The Big Mouth (1967), The Seven Minutes (1971), Mitchell
(1975), and Hardly Working (1980).
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