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Leonard Stone
Highest Rated: 92% Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Lowest Rated: 9% Hardly Working (1981)
Birthday: Nov 3, 1923
Birthplace: Salem, Oregon, USA
Leonard Stone was a prolific character actor with more than 130 television and film credits in a career that has spanned 50 years. Stone may well be best known for his role as Mr. Beauregarde, the father of golden ticket winner and blueberry gum victim Violet Beauregarde in the fantastical 1971 film classic "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." Stone made his TV debut in 1956, appearing on an episode each of "Kraft Theatre" and "Studio One in Hollywood." During the 1960s, Stone appeared seemingly everywhere, with recurring guest parts on such TV institutions as "Perry Mason" and "Mission: Impossible," along with a key supporting role on the lesser-known comedy "Camp Runamuck," on which he played Doc Joslyn for 13 episodes from 1965 to 1966. In the 1970s, alongside his appearance in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," Stone was on four episodes of the crime mystery "Mannix" and began multi-episode stints on such comedies as "Barney Miller" and "Alice," and on the crime mystery "Quincy M.E.," all of which ran into the '80s. Stone's most notable late-career gig began in 1988, as Judge Paul Hanson on the hit procedural drama "L.A. Law," on which he appeared in 10 episodes over the course of six years. He died in 2011, just one day before of his 88th birthday.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blood Money | Dominic Restrelli (Character) | - | 1999 |
65% |
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American Pop | Leo Stern (Voice) | - | 1981 |
9% |
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Hardly Working | Ted Mitchell (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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Zuma Beach | Johnson (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Other Side of Hell | Morelli (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deadman's Curve | Herb Alpert (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl in the Empty Grave | Harry (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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The Runaways | Captain Baker (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beg, Borrow... or Steal | Mr. Brubaker (Character) | - | 1973 |
92% |
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | Mr. Sam Beauregarde (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror in the Sky | Harry Burdick (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man | Congressman Parmel (Character) | - | 1971 |
33% |
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Getting Straight | Lysander (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zigzag | Jim Harris (Character) | - | 1970 |
40% |
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The Big Mouth | Fong (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre | Benedict Sloane (Character) | - | 1964 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brooklyn South | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
97% | 82% | Hill Street Blues | Mo "Mouse" Feldstein (Guest Star) | 1983 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barney Miller | Ernest Lun (Guest Star) | 1975 1977 1980-1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Day at a Time | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dukes of Hazzard | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | 88% | All in the Family | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eight Is Enough | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 87% | M*A*S*H | Colonel Bidwell (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sanford and Son | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bob Newhart Show | Dr. Ned Podbillion (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Blue Knight | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Sammy Elias (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | Lt. Galvin (Character) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Davey (Guest Star) | 1963 1965 1973-1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix |
Wexler (Character), Hal Seagrave (Guest Star) |
1971 1973-1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Lt. Tanner (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Apple's Way | Frank Goode (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Me and the Chimp | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Mace (Guest Star) | 1969 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Partridge Family | George Clauson (Guest Star) | 1970 |
71% | 88% | The Good Guys | Gunner (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | James Barrett (Guest Star) | 1968-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Lost in Space | Farnum (Guest Star) | 1967-1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cimarron Strip | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Harlan Keen (Guest Star) | 1962 1964-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964-1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963-1964 |
92% | 86% | The Outer Limits | Dr. Phillip Gainer (Character) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Longden (Character) | 1957 |