Onslow Stevens was an American

United States

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 stage, television and film actor.

Career

Born Onslow Ford Stevenson in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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, he was the son of character actor

Character actor

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 Housley Stevenson. Stevens became involved in performing in 1928, appearing in Under the Roof at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where his entire family worked as performers, directors and teachers. His first major success came from his performance in the Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 play Stage Door

Stage Door

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. He then went on to star in over 80 films, at first as the lead actor, but mostly in character roles later in his career.

Death

He spent the last years of his life in a nursing home

Nursing home

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 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California

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, where, according to his wife, he was abused by his fellow patients. He died of pneumonia

Pneumonia

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 after suffering a broken hip in 1977, at the age of 74. His interment was located in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery

Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery

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 with an unmarked grave.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Onslow Stevens has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hollywood Walk of Fame

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 at 6349 Hollywood Boulevard.

Selected filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1931	The Gay Diplomat	Lieutenant	Uncredited
1932	Heroes of the West	Tom Crosby
1933	Peg o' My Heart Peg o' My Heart (1933 film) Peg o' My Heart is a 1933 film adaptation of the play of the same name by J. Hartley Manners. It starred Marion Davies as a poor Irish girl who stands to inherit a fortune if she satisfies certain conditions.-Cast:...	Sir Gerald "Jerry" Markham
	Secret of the Blue Room Secret of the Blue Room Secret of the Blue Room is a 1933 murder mystery film starring Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, and Paul Lukas. It is based on the German film Geheimnis des Blauen Zimmers. A woman's suitor challenges his two rivals to each spend a night in a room in which several murders occurred years before at 1...	Frank Faber
1934	The Vanishing Shadow The Vanishing Shadow The Vanishing Shadow is a Universal film serial.-Plot:Stanley Stanfield is the inventor of the Vanishing Ray, a wearable device which, when active, leaves only the user's shadow still visible. After meeting with a fellow eccentric scientist, Carl Van Dorn, a prototype is built. Stanley intends...	Stanley Stanfield
1935	A Notorious Gentleman	John Barrett
	The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers (1935 film) The Three Musketeers is the first English-language talking picture version of Alexandre Dumas, père's novel of the same name. It stars Walter Abel, Ian Keith, Margot Grahame, and Paul Lukas.-Plot:...	Aramis
1936	Under Two Flags	Sidi-Ben Youssiff
1937	Flight From Glory Flight From Glory Flight From Glory is a 1937 B movie about a run-down air cargo company in South America in the early days of aviation.-Plot:Ellis runs an air service transporting supplies from a tiny, remote outpost over the Andes Mountains to some mines, using worn-out planes and pilots no one else will employ...	Ellis
1939	When Tomorrow Comes When Tomorrow Comes (film) When Tomorrow Comes is a 1939 romantic drama film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. A waitress falls in love with a man who later turns out to be a married concert pianist. Bernard B...	Jim Holden
1940	Mystery Sea Raider Mystery Sea Raider -Cast:* Carole Landis as June McCarthy* Henry Wilcoxon as Captain Jimmy Madden* Onslow Stevens as Carl Cutler* Kathleen Howard as Maggie Clancy* Wally Rairden as Blake, 3rd Mate * Sven Hugo Borg as Sven* Henry Victor as Cmdr. Bulow...
1941	The Monster and the Girl The Monster and the Girl The Monster and the Girl is a science fiction/horror black-and-white film released by Paramount Pictures, on a low budget.-Plot:A gangster named Scot Webster attempts to save his sister, Susan from the clutches of rival gangster W.S Bruhl...	J. Stanley McMasters	Alternative titles: The Avenging Brain D.O.A.
1942	Sunset Serenade	Gregg Jackson
1943	Appointment in Berlin	Rudolph Von Preissing
1944	Hands Across the Border	Brock Danvers
1945	House of Dracula House of Dracula House of Dracula was an American horror film released by Universal Pictures Company in 1945. It was a direct sequel to House of Frankenstein and continued the theme of combining Universal's three most popular monsters: Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula and The Wolf Man...	Dr. Franz Edlemann	Alternative title: The Wolf Man's Cure
1946	O.S.S. O.S.S. (film) O.S.S. is a 1946 war film starring Alan Ladd, Colton Winters and Geraldine Fitzgerald about the Office of Strategic Services....	Field
	Canyon Passage Canyon Passage Canyon Passage is a 1946 Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and set in frontier Oregon. Featuring love triangles and a Native American uprising, it was adapted from the Saturday Evening Post novel Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox...	Jack Lestrade
	Angel on My Shoulder Angel on My Shoulder (film) Angel on My Shoulder is a 1946 American fantasy film about a deal between the Devil and a dead man. It was an independent production, produced by Charles R. Rogers and David W. Siegel, directed by Archie Mayo, written by Harry Segall and Roland Kibbee, and released by United Artists...	Dr. Matt Higgins
1948	Night Has a Thousand Eyes Night Has a Thousand Eyes Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 film noir, starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by John Farrow. The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich.- Plot :...	Dr. Walters	Credited as Onslow Stevenson
1949	Red, Hot and Blue Red, Hot and Blue (film) Red, Hot and Blue is a 1949 musical comedy film starring Betty Hutton as an actress who gets mixed up with gangsters and murder. It has no connection to Cole Porter's play of the same name...	Laddie Corwin
1950	State Penitentiary	Richard Evans
1951	Sirocco Sirocco (film) Sirocco is an American film noir directed by Curtis Bernhardt and written by A.I. Bezzerides and Hans Jacoby. It is based on the novel Coup de Grace written by Joseph Kessel. The drama features Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, among others.-Plot:In 1925 Damascus, the natives are engaged...	Emir Hassan
1952	The San Francisco Story	Captain Jim Martin
1953	The Charge at Feather River The Charge at Feather River The Charge at Feather River is a 1953 Western film directed by Gordon Douglas, was originally released in 3D with lots of arrows, lances, and other weapons flying directly at the audience in several scenes....	Grover Johnson
	A Lion Is in the Streets A Lion Is in the Streets A Lion Is in the Streets is a 1953 drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney as a southern politician loosely based on Huey Long. Cagney's brother William was the producer, while his younger sister Jeanne was a member of the cast. The screenplay was based on a 1945 book by Adria...	Guy Polli
1954	Them! Them! (1954 film) Them! is a 1954 American black and white science fiction film about man's encounter with a nest of gigantic irradiated ants. It is based on an original story treatment by George Worthing Yates. It was developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman and Russell Hughes for Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.,...	Brig. Gen. Robert O'Brien
1955	New York Confidential New York Confidential (film) New York Confidential is a 1955 crime film starring Broderick Crawford and Richard Conte as New York gangsters. It is based on the 1948 book New York: Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.-Plot:...	Johnny Achilles
1956	Tribute to a Bad Man Tribute to a Bad Man Tribute to a Bad Man is a 1956 western film starring James Cagney about a rancher whose harsh enforcement of frontier justice alienates the woman he loves. It was directed by Robert Wise and based on the short story "Hanging's for the Lucky" by Jack Schaefer.-Plot:Rustlers rob horses belonging to...	Hearn
	The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (1956 film) The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film that dramatized the biblical story of the Exodus, in which the Hebrew-born Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. The film, released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956, was directed by...	Lugal
1957	Kelly and Me	Walter Van Runkel
1958	Tarawa Beachhead	General Nathan Keller
1960	All the Fine Young Cannibals All the Fine Young Cannibals All The Fine Young Cannibals is a 1960 film directed by Michael Anderson, based on the novel by Rosamond Marshall starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, and Pearl Bailey....	Joshua Davis
1962	The Couch	Dr. W.L. Janz, M.D.
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1952	This Is the Life This is the Life (TV series) This Is the Life is an American Christian television dramatic series. This anthology series aired in syndication from the 1950s through 1980s. The series was originally produced by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and distributed by the International Lutheran Laymen's League.-Format:This Is...	Mr. Fisher	1 episode
1953	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, is a weekly CBS anthology television series, was telecast on Friday nights from 1951 until 1959. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by Schlitz beer...	Senator Scott Varnum	1 episode
1954	The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse is an American dramatic anthology series that aired on ABC from 1953 to 1955, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. The show was hosted by Arlene Dahl , Anita Colby , and, finally, Polly Bergen -Guest stars:* Claude Akins...	Detective Meers Thompson	2 episodes
1955	Cheyenne	Judge Culver	1 episode
1956	Steve Donovan, Western Marshal Steve Donovan, Western Marshal Steve Donovan, Western Marshal is a 1955-1956 syndicated western television series starring Douglas Kennedy as Marshal Steve Donovan and Eddy Waller as his sidekick, Rusty Lee...	Ben Morgan	1 episode
1957	Have Gun – Will Travel	Dr. Mayhew	1 episode
1958	The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program which originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known...	Major Edward Karn	1 episode
1959	Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....	Sheriff Ben Goddard	1 episode
1960	The Outlaws The Outlaws (1960 TV series) Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory about Stillwater. The program aired 50 one-hour episodes from September 29, 1960, to May 10, 1962. The first season was shot in black-and-white,...	John Kyle	1 episode
1960–1961	The Wonderful World of Disney	General Miles	2 episodes
1961	Laramie Laramie (TV series) Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr...	General Taylor Roberts	1 episode

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