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Dean Stockwell was an American actor with a career spanning seven decades. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh, Song of the Thin Man, The Green Years, Gentleman's Agreement, The Boy with Green Hair, nd Kim. As a young adult, he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway play "Compulsion" and its 1959 film version; and in 1962 he played "Edmund Tyrone" in the film version of Long Day's Journey into Night, for which he won two Best Actor Awards at the Cannes Film Festival. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his starring role in the 1960 film version of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.