Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticDean Stockwell, who died Sunday at 85, made every movie and television show he was in better.
As an actor, he had a scurrilous twinkle that could light up a scene. He started off as a child star in films like “Gentleman’s Agreement” and “The Boy with Green Hair” — the latter of which I was shocked to discover really was about a boy with green (I’ve never forgotten what a poignant urchin the actor made him).Stockwell was born in Hollywood in 1936, the same year as Dennis Hopper, and if his career had taken a slightly different turn he would have been part of the James Dean/Marlon Brando new-wave-of-Method-Hollywood rat pack. (In his beautiful youth, with dark eyebrows and ripe lips, he resembled a more.
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