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Mark Stevens (born Richard William Stevens; December 13, 1916 – September 15, 1994) was an American actor, who appeared in films, and on television. He was one of four who played the lead role in the television series Martin Kane, Private Eye; he appeared in 1953–54.

Mark Stevens
Stevens in 1950
Born	Richard William Stevens (1916-12-13)December 13, 1916 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Died	September 15, 1994(1994-09-15) (aged 77) Majores, Spain
Other names	Stephen Richards
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1943–1987
Spouse	Annelle Hayes ​ ​ (m. 1945; div. 1962)​
Children	2

Early Life

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Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Stevens first studied to become a painter before becoming active in theater work. He then launched a radio career as an announcer in Akron, Ohio.

Early Career

Warner Bros – as Stephen Richards

Moving to Hollywood, he became a Warner Bros. contract actor at $100 a week in 1943. The studio darkened and straightened his curly red hair and covered his freckles. At first he was billed as Stephen Richards. They gave him small parts, often uncredited, in films like Destination Tokyo (1943), Passage to Marseille (1944), The Doughgirls (1944), Hollywood Canteen (1944), Objective, Burma! (1945), God Is My Co-Pilot (1945), The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945), Rhapsody in Blue (1945) and Pride of the Marines (1945). He usually played soldiers. Eventually the studio let him go.

Career at 20th Century Fox

He was then signed to 20th Century Fox and changed his name to Mark Stevens at the suggestion of Darryl Zanuck.

His first movie for the studio was Within These Walls (1945), fourth-billed, playing the romantic male lead. Stevens was borrowed by RKO to play the lead role in From This Day Forward (1946) with Joan Fontaine.

Back at Fox Stevens was in The Dark Corner (1946) with Lucille Ball and Clifton Webb, a film noir that attempted to repeat the success of Laura (1944). In 1946, exhibitors voted him the fifth-most promising "star of tomorrow".[1]

Fox put him in the musical I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947), playing Joseph E. Howard. It was a big hit. So too was The Street With No Name (1948), where Stevens played an FBI man going undercover to arrest a gangster played by Richard Widmark, and The Snake Pit (1948), in which he played Olivia de Havilland's loyal husband.

Stevens was in a Western, Sand (1949) and another musical biopic with Haver, Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949), playing Fred Fisher.[2] He supported William Powell in Dancing in the Dark (1949).

Stevens was borrowed by MGM to play Matthew Kinston, one of Deborah Kerr's three suitors in Please Believe Me (1950). For Columbia, he starred in the film-noir Between Midnight and Dawn (1950).

Career after 20th Century Fox

Stevens then signed a contract at Universal: Target Unknown (1951), a war film; Katie Did It (1951), a romantic comedy; Little Egypt (1951) with Rhonda Fleming; Reunion in Reno (1951).

In 1951, he starred in the DuMont series News Gal which was later syndicated on ABC in 1957.

Stevens made Mutiny (1952) for the King Brothers and went to England for The Lost Hours (1952).

He was in Torpedo Alley (1953). Stevens took over the lead role in Martin Kane, Private Eye from 1953 to 1954.

From 1954 to 1956, he played a newspaper managing editor in the series Big Town, having replaced Patrick McVey, who starred in the role from 1950 to 1954. Reruns of Big Town began airing on DuMont under the title City Assignment while new episodes of the series were still appearing on CBS.

Career as a Director

In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed several features: Cry Vengeance (1954), Time Table (1956), Gun Fever (1958), Man on a Raft (1958), The Man in the Water (1963), and Sunscorched (1966).

As an actor only, he was in Gunsight Ridge (1956), September Storm (1960), and Fate is the Hunter (1964).

Later career

From the 1960s Stevens lived in semi-retirement in Spain.^{[citation needed]} His occasional film credits include Spain Again (1969) and The Fury of the Wolfman (1972). In the 1980s he made guest appearances on television shows including Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote.

Death

On September 15, 1994, Stevens died of cancer in Majorca, Spain at the age of 77.[3]

For his contribution to the television industry, Mark Stevens has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame at 6637 Hollywood Boulevard.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1943	Destination Tokyo	Admiral's aide	uncredited
1944	Passage to Marseille	Lieutenant Hastings	uncredited
	Roaring Guns	Lance Ferris	as Stephen Richards
	The omar	Lt. Harry Kerry	uncredited
	Hollywood Canteen	Soldier on deck	uncredited
1945	Objective, Burma!	Lt. Barker	as Stephen Richards
	God Is My Co-Pilot	Sgt. Baldridge	as Stephen Richards
	The Horn Blows at Midnight	Angel	uncredited
	Rhapsody in Blue	Steve	uncredited
	Within These Walls	Steve Purcell
	Pride of the Marines	Ainslee	as Stephen Richards
1946	From This Day Forward	Bill Cummings
	The Dark Corner	Bradford Galt
1947	I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	Joe Howard
1948	The Street with No Name	Gene Cordell/George Manly
	The Snake Pit	Robert Cunningham
1949	Sand	Jeff Keane
	Oh, You Beautiful Doll	Larry Kelly
	Dancing in the Dark	Bill Davis
1950	Please Believe Me	Matthew Kinston
	Between Midnight and Dawn	Officer Rocky Barnes
1951	Target Unknown	Capt. Jerome 'Steve' Stevens
	Katie Did It	Peter Van Arden
	Little Egypt	Wayne Cravat
	Reunion in Reno	Norman Drake
1952	Mutiny	Capt. James Marshall
	The Lost Hours	Paul Smith
	Torpedo Alley	Lt. Bob Bingham
1953	Jack Slade	Joseph Alfred Slade
1954	Cry Vengeance	Vic Barron	also director
1956	Time Table	Charlie Norman	also director
1957	Gunsight Ridge	Velvet Clark
1958	Gun Fever	Luke Ram	also director
	Gunsmoke in Tucson	Jedediah (Chip) Coburn
1960	September Storm	Joe Balfour
1963	Escape from Hell Island	Capt. James	also director
1964	Fate Is the Hunter	Mickey Doolan
	Frozen Alive	Dr. Frank Overton	original title: Der Fall X701
1965	Jessy Does Not Forgive... He Kills!	Sheriff Jeff Kinsley	original title: Tierra de fuego
1966	Go with God, Gringo	Smith	original title: Vaya con dios gringo
1969	Cry for Poor Wally	Gaylord Blue – Radio DJ
	Spain Again	Dr. David Foster	original title: España otra vez
1972	The Fury of the Wolfman	Bill Williams	uncredited original title: La furia del Hombre Lobo

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1957	Wagon Train	Nels Stack	'The Nels Stack Story', (with Joanne Dru)
1957	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Capt. John Hunter	episode: "Dangerous Orders"
1958	Zane Grey Theatre	Cort McConnell	episode: "The Stranger"
1962	Rawhide	John Shepard	episode: Incident of the Hunter
1978	The Eddie Capra Mysteries	Ballinger	episode: "How Do I Kill Thee?"
1986	Murder, She Wrote	Nick Brody	episode: "Obituary for a Dead Anchor"

Radio

Year	Program	Role	Notes
1947	Suspense	Jimmy Dawson	episode: "Tree of Life"[4]
1947	Lux Radio Theater	Bradford Gault	The Dark Corner
1947	Suspense	Bill Cummings	episode: From This Day Forward[5]
1952	Cavalcade of America	Thaddeus Fairbanks	episode: "The Yankee and the Scales"[6]

Notes

External links

• Mark Stevens at IMDb
• Mark Stevens at TCMDB
• Mark Stevens at Hollywood Star Walk

На других языках

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[de] Mark Stevens (Schauspieler)

Mark Stevens (eigentlich Richard William Stevens, * 13. September 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio; † 15. September 1994 in Majores, Spanien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Filmregisseur.

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- [en] Mark Stevens (actor)

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[es] Mark Stevens (actor)

Mark Stevens (13 de diciembre de 1916 – 15 de septiembre de 1994) fue un actor cinematográfico y televisivo de nacionalidad estadounidense, conocido por ser uno de los cuatro que encarnaron al personaje principal de la serie televisiva Martin Kane, Private Eye, emitida por la NBC entre 1949 y 1954.

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[ru] Стивенс, Марк

Марк Стивенс (англ. Mark Stevens) (имя при рождении — Ричард Уильям Стивенс, англ. Richard William Stevens) (13 декабря, 1916 — 15 сентября, 1994) — американский киноактёр и режиссёр, «звезда второго эшелона 1940-50-х годов»[1]. «Несмотря на красоту и способности Стивенса, его постоянно (и несправедливо) называли уменьшенной версией Джона Пейна и Алана Лэдда»[1].

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