Philip Stone
Philip Stone was an English actor known for portraying film characters such as "Pa", the father of Alex DeLarge, in A Clockwork Orange ; General Alfred Jodl in Hitler: The Last Ten Days ; Delbert Grady in The Shining ; and Captain Phillip Blumburtt in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. His final film role was as the Bishop in The Baby of Mâcon.
On television, Stone is known for his roles as Detective Sergeant Sowman in Coronation Street, Brigadier Davidson in The Rat Catchers, and Sir John Gallagher in Justice.
Early life
Philip Stone was born in Kirkstall, Leeds. He was the youngest of four children; his father was a secondary school headmaster. He served in the Royal Air Force during the final two years of the Second World War.Career
Stone's professional theatre career began in London in 1947. He performed a range of roles in repertory theatre before moving to London in 1960, becoming a regular on television, often playing "tough-minded authority figures". He appeared in many popular series, including the first two episodes of The Avengers, The Saint, Coronation Street, Justice, Bergerac, Yes Minister, Heartbeat, A Touch of Frost, and Dalziel and Pascoe.Stone was the only actor to appear in three consecutive Stanley Kubrick films. First, he played the central character Alex's "P" in A Clockwork Orange. Subsequently, he played Graham, the Lyndon family lawyer, in Barry Lyndon, and Delbert Grady, the waiter/caretaker who murdered his family in The Shining. Kubrick had seen him perform in David Storey's stage play The Contractor. The only other actor to be credited in three Kubrick films is Joe Turkel who appeared in Kubrick's early films The Killing, Paths of Glory and co-starred with Stone in The Shining.
Stone's other film roles included Thunderball, Where Eagles Dare, Quest for Love, Flash Gordon, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In the Ralph Bakshi animated film The Lord of the Rings, he voiced the role of Théoden.