Paul Stewart

Known for ActingBorn 1908-03-13Died 1986-02-17New York City, New York, USA

Paul Stewart (March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor known for his tough, guttural voice. He frequently portrayed villains and mobsters throughout his lengthy career. Born Paul Sternberg in New York City, Stewart graduated from Columbia University and made his Broadway theatre debut in the play Two Seconds in 1931. A few years later he met Orson Welles, who invited him to join the Mercury Theatre, where he participated in the notorious 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. He was a founding member of AFTRA. Sternberg's many screen credits include Citizen Kane, Twelve O'Clock High, Champion, Kiss Me Deadly, The Bad and the Beautiful, In Cold Blood, The Day of the Locust, S.O.B., and W.C. Fields and Me, in which he portrayed Florenz Ziegfeld. On television, he appeared in Playhouse 90, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alcoa Theatre, Dr. Kildare, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, It Takes a Thief, Mannix, The Name of the Game, McMillan & Wife, Mission Impossible,The Rockford Files, Lou Grant, and Remington Steele, among many others. He also directed some television episodes, among them "Little Girl Lost", from the Twilight Zone. Stewart was married to big band singer/actress Peg La Centra from 1939 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 77. He was characterized in the 1999 television movie RKO 281.Read more

Movies & web series

The Twilight Zone

W.C. Fields and Me

Columbo

Matt Helm

Panic!

MacGyver

Inner Sanctum

87th Precinct

Citizen Kane

Opening Night

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Rockford Files

The Nativity

Perry Mason

Ellery Queen

Mission: Impossible

In Cold Blood

Profiles in Courage

F for Fake

Philip Marlowe

Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor

Breaking Point

Deadline

Remington Steele

The Other Side of the Wind

Hawaii Five-O

The Bad and the Beautiful

Power

Kiss Me Deadly

The Streets of San Francisco

The Pilot

Jigsaw

The Name of the Game

McMillan & Wife

Twelve O'Clock High

Half Hour to Kill

Ironside

A Child Is Waiting

Mannix

Deadline - U.S.A.

The Window

Mr. Lucky

Cannon

The Juggler

The Dain Curse

Deep in My Heart

The World at War

Bite the Bullet