Paul Stewart
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.
97 acting credits · 14 directing credits
Acting · 97
Columbo
1971
Perry Mason
1957
Mannix
1967
MacGyver
1985
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The Rockford Files
1974
Dr. Kildare
1961
Climax!
1954
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The F.B.I.
1965
Cannon
1971
Remington Steele
1982
The Name of the Game
1968
Gunsmoke
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Mod Squad
1968
McMillan & Wife
1971
Lights Out
1949
Suspense
1949
Ellery Queen
1975
Cain's Hundred
1961
Citizen Kane
1941
The Outsider
1968
Matt Helm
1975
Breaking Point
1963
The Sixth Sense
1972
Johnny Staccato
1959
Inner Sanctum
1954
Profiles in Courage
1964
Panic!
1957
Cassie & Co.
1982
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
Deadline
1959
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
1967
LA 2017
1971
On Trial
1956
In Cold Blood
1967
Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
The Dain Curse
1978
Bite the Bullet
1975
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
Deadline - U.S.A.
1952
King Creole
1958
Twelve O'Clock High
1949
Opening Night
1977
S.O.B.
1981
Mr. Lucky
1943
Power
1980
Champion
1949
The Day of the Locust
1975
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
F for Fake
1973
We're Not Married!
1952
The Window
1949
Johnny Eager
1941
Tempest
1982
The Cobweb
1955
Appointment with Danger
1950
W.C. Fields and Me
1976
A Child Is Waiting
1963
City Beneath the Sea
1971
Prisoner of War
1954
Carter's Army
1975
Berlin Express
1948
Hell on Frisco Bay
1955
The Pilot
1980
Easy Living
1949
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Top Secret Affair
1957
Carbine Williams
1952
Chicago Syndicate
1955
Government Girl
1943
Deep in My Heart
1954
Illegal Entry
1949
Edge of Doom
1950
The Nativity
1978
The Juggler
1953
Loan Shark
1952
Nobody's Perfekt
1981
The Joe Louis Story
1953
Jigsaw
1968
Ever Since Eve
1937
Fabulous Trinity
1972
Murph the Surf
1975
How to Commit Marriage
1969
The World at War
1942
Not One Shall Die
1957
Beyond All Limits
1959
The Wild Party
1956
Confession
1956
She Loves Me Not
1949
O+ omikron plus
2013
Directing · 14
The Twilight Zone
1959
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Lawman
1958
The Defenders
1961
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Peter Gunn
1958
Checkmate
1960
M Squad
1957
87th Precinct
1961
Going My Way
1962
Philip Marlowe
1959
Michael Shayne
1960
Kings Row
1955
Half Hour to Kill
1958