Randy Stone (August 26, 1958 â€" February 12, 2007) was an American
actor, producer, casting director, Emmy and Academy Award winner. He
was a co-founder of The Trevor Project.Stone began his acting career
in 1976 as a child actor on Charlie's Angels. However, most of his
acting roles were as an adult. He appeared in two episodes of Space:
Above and Beyond, and did two film roles. His most notable
performance, however, was as the hapless gay Los Angeles millionaire
Michael Beebe in the second-season episode Beware of the Dog on the
television series Millennium.However, Stone's primary career was as a
casting director. He began this career with The Landsberg Company in
1981. His first job was casting the NBC series Gimme A Break!. He was
head of casting at 20th Century Fox Television, and was responsible
for casting David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on The X-Files and
Lance Henriksen on Millennium. In 1998, Stone, who was gay, was
terminated at Fox and filed a complaint with the California State
Labor Commission that he had been illegally discriminated against on
the basis of his sexual orientation. The company refused to comply
with the Commission's decision.Among his more notable film and
television casting jobs were the film Jaws 3-D (1983), the made-for-TV
movie The Ryan White Story (1989), Cameron Crowe's directorial film
debut Say Anything... (1989), the made-for-TV movie The Incident
(1990) and the television series Space: Above and Beyond.
actor, producer, casting director, Emmy and Academy Award winner. He
was a co-founder of The Trevor Project.Stone began his acting career
in 1976 as a child actor on Charlie's Angels. However, most of his
acting roles were as an adult. He appeared in two episodes of Space:
Above and Beyond, and did two film roles. His most notable
performance, however, was as the hapless gay Los Angeles millionaire
Michael Beebe in the second-season episode Beware of the Dog on the
television series Millennium.However, Stone's primary career was as a
casting director. He began this career with The Landsberg Company in
1981. His first job was casting the NBC series Gimme A Break!. He was
head of casting at 20th Century Fox Television, and was responsible
for casting David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on The X-Files and
Lance Henriksen on Millennium. In 1998, Stone, who was gay, was
terminated at Fox and filed a complaint with the California State
Labor Commission that he had been illegally discriminated against on
the basis of his sexual orientation. The company refused to comply
with the Commission's decision.Among his more notable film and
television casting jobs were the film Jaws 3-D (1983), the made-for-TV
movie The Ryan White Story (1989), Cameron Crowe's directorial film
debut Say Anything... (1989), the made-for-TV movie The Incident
(1990) and the television series Space: Above and Beyond.
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