I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.

In 1958 he joined Gloria Talbott and Dan Blocker as guest stars in the episode "Mercyday" of the NBC western series The Restless Gun starring John Payne. Career

In 1945 he appeared in a main character role (Donald Martin) in the musical movie Anchors Aweigh alongside Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. During the mid-1970s Stockwell worked as a real-estate broker.

More recently he became widely known for television roles playing Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci in the 1989–1993 television series Quantum Leap and Brother Cavil in the Sci Fi Channel 21st century revival of Battlestar Galactica. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh and The Green Years; as a young adult he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of Meyer Levin's Compulsion a novel based on the true-life story of Leopold and Loeb. Dean Stockwell (born Robert Dean Stockwell March 5 1936) is an American actor of film and television with a career spanning over 65 years.