Warren Stevens
Warren Albert Stevens was an American stage, screen, and television actor. A founding member of The Actor's Studio in New York, Stevens received notice on Broadway in the late 1940s, and thereafter was offered a Hollywood contract at 20th Century Fox. His first Broadway role was in The Life of Galileo; his first movie role followed in The Frogmen. As a young studio contract player, Stevens had little choice of material, and he appeared in films that included Phone Call from a Stranger, Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie, and Gorilla at Large. A memorable movie role was that of the ill-fated "Doc" Ostrow in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet. He also had supporting roles in The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart and Intent to Kill.
Despite occasional parts in big films, Stevens was unable to break out consistently into A-list movies, so he carved out a career in television as a journeyman dramatic actor.
He co-starred as Lt. William Storm in Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers, a prime time adventure series set in India. Stevens also provided the voice of John Bracken in season one of Bracken's World. He played the role of Elliot Carson in the daytime series Return to Peyton Place during its two-year run.
He appeared in over 150 prime time shows from the 1950s to the early 1980s, including:
Golden Age anthology series (Actors Studio, Campbell Playhouse, The Web, Justice, Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One, The United States Steel Hour, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Route 66,
Mysteries Hawaiian Eye, Perry Mason, The Untouchables, Climax!, Checkmate, Surfside 6, 77 Sunset Strip, Behind Closed Doors, I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, The Mod Squad, Mannix, Cannon, Griff, and Mission: Impossible, as well as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, and Mission: Impossible. He also starred in a variety of Westerns: Laramie, The Rebel, The Man Called Shenandoah), Wagon Train, The Alaskans, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, The Virginian Rawhide, and Have Gun, Will Travel, as well as Tombstone Territory and Stoney Burke. In 1970, he appeared as Paul Carson on "The Men From Shiloh" (rebranded name for The Virginian in the episode titled "Hannah.")
Stevens' appearance in the 1955 movie Robbers' Roost introduced him to Richard Boone, who hired him for a continuing television role on The Richard Boone Show, an award-winning NBC anthology series which lasted for the 1963–1964 season.
In his later years, Stevens' appearances were infrequent. He guest-starred in ER in March 2006 and had two roles in 2007.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.474 |
Birthday | 1919-11-02 |
Place of Birth | Clark's Summit, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Warren Albert Stevens, |
1956
Forbidden Planet
7.3/946
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years,...
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1978
The Amazing Captain Nemo
5.2/14
Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in order to battle a fiendish mad scientis...
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
1968
Madigan
6.143/77
NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice....
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Madigan
1955
Women's Prison
5.7/18
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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Women's Prison
1954
Black Tuesday
5.9/23
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a b...
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1954
The Barefoot Contessa
6.771/229
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film....
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The Barefoot Contessa
1952
Deadline - U.S.A.
6.8/68
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
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1966
Madame X
6.577/39
A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her m...
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1956
Accused of Murder
4.5/14
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked l...
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Accused of Murder
1966
Cyborg 2087
5.8/24
In the future world of the year 2087, freedom of thought is illegal and the thoughts of the world's populations are controlled by the government. A sm...
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Cyborg 2087
1958
The Case Against Brooklyn
5.8/12
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
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The Case Against Brooklyn
1951
The Frogmen
5.9/23
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over...
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The Frogmen
1951
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
6.6/7
Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind.
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2004
The Trail to Hope Rose
5/3
Lou Diamond Phillips and marina Black star together with Lee majors and Ernest Borgnine in a western drama. Lou plays an ex convict who tries to make...
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1956
The Price of Fear
5.8/20
A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.
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1959
No Name on the Bullet
6.6/73
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of...
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No Name on the Bullet
1954
Gorilla at Large
5.6/12
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.
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1958
Man or Gun
2.5/2
Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town...
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Man or Gun
1952
Phone Call from a Stranger
6.4/25
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who...
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Phone Call from a Stranger
1958
Intent to Kill
5.2/4
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on...
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Intent to Kill
1952
Red Skies of Montana
5.2/4
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2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
6.7/11
The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real...
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1962
Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
3.8/4
Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the th...
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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
1952
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
5.6/7
At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character th...
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1955
Duel on the Mississippi
6.5/8
In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet (Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin) will do anything...
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1976
The Student Body
4.4/7
Carrie, Mitzie, and Chicago get in trouble a lot in the women's prison, but are offered early parolement if they agree to become subjects of a study o...
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The Student Body
1956
On the Threshold of Space
4/1
In the early stages of the space program, Capt. Jim Hollenbeck undergoes any experiment needed to ensure success in the new Air Force branch -- even t...
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On the Threshold of Space
1955
Robbers' Roost
5.8/13
Jim "Tex" Wall, searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang of cattle rustlers led by Hank Hays. Both Hays' ou...
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1953
The I Don't Care Girl
6.5/1
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story...
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1968
The Sweet Ride
5.6/5
AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.
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1962
40 Pounds of Trouble
5.4/15
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
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1967
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
0/0
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning...
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1952
O. Henry's Full House
6.5/35
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is...
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1955
The Man from Bitter Ridge
6/15
The Man from Bitter Ridge is a film directed by Jack Arnold. Jeff Carr, a special investigator, arrives in Tomahawk. His assignment is to discover who...
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1979
The Rebels
0/0
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthrigh...
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The Rebels
1956
Dark Meeting
0/0
Billie hires an odd man as the new pin boy at her bowling alley, but quickly fires him because of his violent outbursts. Shortly thereafter, she finds...
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1953
Mr. Matches
0/0
An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's...
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Mr. Matches
1953
Mark of Cain
0/0
A man is released from prison only to find a new kind of prison: society's judgment of an ex-con's continuing guilt. He now lives with his mother, his...
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2007
Carts
0/0
A group of misfit shopping cart attendants deal with another day at their dead end jobs.
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Carts
1953
Shark River
0/1
Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Par...
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Shark River
1957
Gunfire at Indian Gap
5/1
A stagecoach is attacked by a group of outlaws who make off with a pile of money. Unfortunately for Mexican Juan, the sheriff believes he's one of the...
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1962
Belle Sommers
0/0
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
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Belle Sommers
1966
An American Dream
4.6/5
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Debor...
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An American Dream
1958
Hot Spell
6/6
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve...
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Hot Spell
1966
Gunpoint
6/22
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
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1983
Stroker Ace
5/52
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebellin...
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Stroker Ace
2006
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
4.5/3
A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie.
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1980
High Ice
5.8/4
A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share com...
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1991
Samurai Cop
4.553/180
When Japanese organized crime imbeds itself within LA, the police turn to one man to take down the deadly Yakuza — Joe Marshall, aka "The Samurai." Wi...
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