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