caption years_active children birth_place relatives parents birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
stockwell in 2005 1945 -- present 2 north hollywood , california , u.s. guy stockwell -lrb- brother -rrb- harry -rrb- stockwell -lrb- father -rrb- nina olivette -lrb- mother 5 march 1936 dean stockwell1.jpg dean stockwell
 robert dean stockwell actor
dean stockwell

dean stockwell -lrb- born robert dean stockwell , march 5 , 1936 -rrb- is an american actor of film and television , with a career spanning over 65 years .
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 .
more recently , he became widely known for television roles , playing rear admiral albert `` al '' calavicci in the 1989 -- 1993 nbc-tv universal television series `` quantum leap '' , and brother cavil in the sci fi channel 21st-century revival of `` battlestar galactica '' .
he was nominated for the academy award for best supporting actor for `` married to the mob '' -lrb- 1988 -rrb- .
