![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1917 in New York City, NY Death: November 18, 2005 in Woodland Hills, CA 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... Full Biography
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