Person Details

Birthday: 1961-03-25 22:19:45

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Galveston, Texas, USA

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Movie Involvements: 46

TV Involvements: 5


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Stockwell (born March 25, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, writer and former model. Stockwell was born John Stockwell Samuels IV in Galveston, Texas, the son of an attorney. His first feature film as an actor came in 1981's So Fine. His well known roles came in the 1983 comedy film Losin' It as Spider; later that year, he starred in the John Carpenter horror movie Christine as Dennis Guilder and the 1985 comedy film, My Science Project as Michael Harlan. In 1986 he appeared in Top Gun as Cougar. He made guest appearances on TV shows including The Young Riders and Friday the 13th: The Series. He began his career as international model, spending much of his time in Italy. During his time as a model, John became a friend of Andy Warhol and Stockwell was mentioned frequently in the artist's memoirs,The Warhol Diaries. Stockwell directed several films, including Cheaters (2000), Crazy/Beautiful (2001), Blue Crush (2002), Into the Blue (2005), Turistas (2006), and Heart (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Stockwell (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Friday the 13th: The Series
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7

Friday the 13th: The Series

(1987) Tim Ayres
Top Gun
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7

Top Gun

(1986) Lt. Bill 'Cougar' Cortell
The L Word
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8

The L Word

(2004) Self
North and South
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7

North and South

(1985) Billy Hazard
Christine
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7

Christine

(1983) Dennis Guilder
Nixon
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7

Nixon

(1995) Staffer #1
Breaking the Girls
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5

Breaking the Girls

(2013) David Layton
Eddie and the Cruisers
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7

Eddie and the Cruisers

(1983) Keith Livingston

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2013 David Layton
2007 Self
2004 Lui-même
Lui-même
Lui-même
Self
2000 News Producer
1997 Robert Renaud
N/A
Victor Mallick
Jack Martin
1996 Grant
1995 Staffer #1
Andy Aldrich
1994 Peter Rubin
1991 Capt. Jack Hassler
David Phipps
1989 Malcolm Barrington
Malcom Barrington
1987 Brad Sedgwick
Tim Ayres
1986 Phillip Chandler
Lt. Bill 'Cougar' Cortell
Randy McDevitt
Lee
1985 Billy Hazard
Michael 'Mike' Harlan
1983 Dennis Guilder
Scott Massey
Keith Livingston
1982 Spider
1981 Jim Sterling
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2008 Producer
2006 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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