RIP Dean Stockwell, Quantum Leap’s Beloved Al

Dean Stockwell, Scott Bakula’s stalwart co-star in Quantum Leap and an actor with over 70 years of labor throughout movie, tv, and stage to his title, has handed away on the age of 85.

Deadline experiences that Stockwell died of pure causes on November 7, at house with household. The actor, who started his profession on the age of seven and practically left appearing behind earlier than a string of memorable film roles within the ‘80s and ‘90s—including Lynch’s adaptation of Dune, wherein Stockwell performed Dr. Wellington Yueh, the doctor for House Atreides and its eventual betrayer to House Harkonnen—saved him on the planet of appearing. But off the large display screen, Stockwell will likely be perpetually remembered to style followers for his function within the 1989 NBC sequence Quantum Leap, for which he acquired a number of Emmy nods and a Golden Globe.

Alongside Scott Bakula, Stockwell appeared in each episode of the time-hopping sci-fi sequence as Rear Admiral Al Calavicci—or relatively, a holographic Al using a particular pc named Ziggy—guiding Bakula’s hero Sam Beckett as he leaped by time righting makes an attempt to alter historical past. Years later he’d embody a way more sinister sci-fi icon within the 2004 Battlestar Galactica reboot from Ronald D. Moore, the place he performed John Cavil. Cavil first seems within the present’s second season as a priestly spiritual counselor within the sequence earlier than being revealed as Number One, the human face of one of many a number of Cylon infiltration fashions that built-in himself as a sleeper agent within the surviving remnants of humanity. Stockwell lastly retired from appearing altogether in 2015, taking over touring exhibitions of his paintings below his full title, Robert Dean Stockwell.

Stockwell is survived by his spouse and two youngsters—our ideas exit to his household at this unlucky time.

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