Tributes paid to Quantum Leap star Dean Stockwell who has died, aged 85

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Oscar and Emmy-nominated actor Dean Stockwell, famous for his role on Quantum Leap has died aged 85. He had a career in film, TV and theatre that lasted more than 70 years.

A family spokesman said Mr Stockwell had died at home of natural causes, reports Wales Online. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and Kim (1950).

As a young adult, he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of Compulsion and in 1962, Stockwell played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day's Journey into Night, for which he won a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. Read