ONSLOW STEVENS
Onslow Stevens
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- (Onslow Stevens in Counsellor at Law, 1933)
Biography
BIO
Onslow Stevens was born Onslow Ford Stevenson in Los Angeles, in 1902. His theatrical family was a fixture at the Pasadena Playhouse and included actor father Houseley Stevenson (1879-1953), film costume designer Edward Stevenson (1906-1968) and film production manager/editor Houseley Stevenson Jr. (1914-1997).
Stevens began acting at the Pasadena Playhouse as a young man before making his film debut for RKO Radio Pictures in 1931 at the age of 29. He became a busy supporting actor, appearing in more than 85 motion pictures through 1962. Chronic alcoholism dampened his later career.
Stevens also debuted on Broadway in the hit play Stage Door (1936-1937) and was cast in another 7 productions through 1957.
He married five times:
- Phyllis Cooper (m. 1934), divorced;
- Ann Buchanan (m. 1936-1942), divorced;
- Vicki Clark (m. 1944-1946), divorced;
- Marley Shofner (m. 1959-1960), divorced;
- Rose Heit (1961-1977);
Stevens was severely injured in a nursing home under suspicious circumstances and succumbed to pneumonia in Los Angeles, in 1977, at the age of 74.