Harold J. Stone

Biography: A third-generation actor, Harold J. Stone made his stage debut at age six with his father, Jacob Hochstein, in the Yiddish-language play White Slaves. Stone had one line--"Mama!"--which he managed to forget on opening night. He didn't act again until after his graduation from New York University. After gleaning valuable experience in radio, he returned to the stage in George Jessel's production of Little Old New York at the 1939 World's Fair. Stone made his Broadway bow shortly afterward in Sidney Kingsley's The World We Make, and thereafter was seldom unemployed. In 1952, he began the first of many TV-series gigs when he replaced Philip Loeb as Jake on The Goldbergs; within a decade, he was averaging 20 TV appearances per year. In films from 1956, the harsh-voiced, authoritative Stone was most often seen as big-city detective (as in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man), generals, and gangsters (he was Frank Nitti in 1967's St. Valentine's Day Massacre). Usually billed at the top of theA third-generation actor, Harold J. Stone made his stage debut at age six with his father, Jacob Hochstein, in the Yiddish-language play White Slaves. Stone had one line--"Mama!"--which he managed to forget on opening night. He didn't act again until after his graduation from New York University. After gleaning valuable experience in radio, he returned to the stage in George Jessel's production of Little Old New York at the 1939 World's Fair. Stone made his Broadway bow shortly afterward in Sidney Kingsley's The World We Make, and thereafter was seldom unemployed. In 1952, he began the first of many TV-series gigs when he replaced Philip Loeb as Jake on The Goldbergs; within a decade, he was averaging 20 TV appearances per year. In films from 1956, the harsh-voiced, authoritative Stone was most often seen as big-city detective (as in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man), generals, and gangsters (he was Frank Nitti in 1967's St. Valentine's Day Massacre). Usually billed at the top of the supporting cast, Stone enjoyed a rare above-the-title starring assignment when he played investigator John Kennedy in the 1959 syndicated TV series Grand Jury. His other weekly-series roles included Hamilton Greeley (a character based on New Yorker maven Harold Ross) in My World and Welcome to It (1969) and Sam Steinberg in Bridget Loves Bernie (1972). In the latter stages of his career, Harold J. Stone unexpectedly found himself a favorite of Jerry Lewis, co-starring in Lewis' The Big Mouth (1967), Which Way to the Front? (1970) and Hardly Working (1980). Expand

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Title: Year: Credit: User score:
tbd Airwolf: Season 3 Sep 28, 1985 Harold J. Stone tbd
tbd Highway to Heaven: Season 2 Sep 18, 1985 Harvey Milsap tbd
tbd Simon and Simon: Season 3 Sep 29, 1983 Becker tbd
tbd Charlie's Angels (1977): Season 5 Nov 30, 1980 Harold J. Stone tbd
tbd Barney Miller: Season 7 Oct 30, 1980 Haddad tbd
tbd Three's Company: Season 4 Sep 11, 1979 Bustamante tbd
tbd Charlie's Angels (1977): Season 1 Mar 21, 1976 Harold J. Stone / John Strauss tbd
tbd Ironside: Season 8 Sep 12, 1974 Harold J. Stone / Mike Martine tbd
tbd The Rockford Files (1974): Season 1 Mar 27, 1974 Sorrell tbd
tbd Ironside: Season 7 Sep 13, 1973 Babe / Harold J. Stone tbd
tbd Mission: Impossible: Season 6 Sep 18, 1971 John Lawson tbd
tbd Hogan's Heroes: Season 6 Sep 20, 1970 Stromberger tbd
tbd Hogan's Heroes: Season 5 Sep 26, 1969 Richter tbd
tbd Hogan's Heroes: Season 4 Sep 28, 1968 Teppel tbd
tbd Ironside: Season 1 Sep 14, 1967 Connolly / Harold J. Stone tbd
tbd I Spy: Season 3 Sep 11, 1967 Zarkas tbd
tbd Get Smart: Season 1 Sep 18, 1965 Groman tbd
tbd Gunsmoke: Season 10 Sep 26, 1964 Jeff Sutro / Jeff Sutro tbd
tbd Gilligan's Island: Season 1 Sep 26, 1964 Alexandri Gregor Dubov 8.5
tbd Bonanza: Season 6 Sep 20, 1964 Chad tbd
tbd Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 1 Sep 14, 1964 Admiral Jiggs Starke tbd
tbd Gunsmoke: Season 9 Sep 28, 1963 Orval Bass tbd
tbd The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 2 Sep 27, 1963 Osterman tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 5 Sep 28, 1962 Harry Maxton tbd
tbd The Untouchables: Season 4 Sep 25, 1962 Flack tbd
tbd The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 1 Sep 20, 1962 Cabdriver tbd
tbd The Untouchables: Season 3 Oct 12, 1961 Actor / Adam tbd
tbd Gunsmoke: Season 7 Sep 30, 1961 Horace Kelk tbd
tbd The Twilight Zone: Season 3 Sep 15, 1961 Grant Sheckly / Grant Sheckly 9.8
tbd The Untouchables: Season 2 Oct 13, 1960 Barney Jurow / Fletcher / Tommy Karpeles tbd