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Zoneboy · 11-03-2011, 01:27 PM

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Character actor Leonard Stone, who played Sam Beauregard, the brash American father of gum-smacking Violet Beauregard in the 1971 children's movie musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, died from cancer on Wednesday, it is reported. He would have turned 88 on Thursday.

With extensive TV credits dating back to the mid-1950s, Stone, a native of Salem, Oregon, appeared on such shows as L.A. Law (as Judge Paul Hanson), General Hospital, M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Night Court, Alice, Barney Miller, All in the Family and Mission: Impossible, according to the Internet Movie Database.

In Willy Wonka, based on the 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Violet (Denise Nickerson) fails to follow the strict rules set down by the candymaker (Gene Wilder) and ends up actually turning violet, much to the dismay of her father.

Stone also had a Broadway career, and received a Tony nomination for his role as George Poppett in the 1959 Bob Fosse musical Redhead, starring Gwen Verdon and set in London at the time of Jack the Ripper.

IMDB reports that Stone and wife (since 1964) Carole H. Kleinman had a daughter – and in 2000 he won $4,250 and a trip to Bermuda on TV's Wheel of Fortune.

Regulus · 11-03-2011, 02:09 PM

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jehobden · 11-03-2011, 07:36 PM

This is a shame, but he did have a good long life. He was also a regular in the short-lived sitcom Camp Runamuck, and he appeared with his Camp Runamuck costar Dave Madden in the first season Partridge Family episode that introduced the group's number #1 song, I Think I Love You.

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Zoneboy Moderator Forum Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 13, 2003 Location: Carthage, NC Posts: 22,549	Actor Leonard Stone 1923-2011 Link Character actor Leonard Stone, who played Sam Beauregard, the brash American father of gum-smacking Violet Beauregard in the 1971 children's movie musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, died from cancer on Wednesday, it is reported. He would have turned 88 on Thursday. With extensive TV credits dating back to the mid-1950s, Stone, a native of Salem, Oregon, appeared on such shows as L.A. Law (as Judge Paul Hanson), General Hospital, MASH, Hill Street Blues, Night Court, Alice, Barney Miller, All in the Family and Mission: Impossible, according to the Internet Movie Database. In Willy Wonka, based on the 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Violet (Denise Nickerson) fails to follow the strict rules set down by the candymaker (Gene Wilder) and ends up actually turning violet, much to the dismay of her father. Stone also had a Broadway career, and received a Tony nomination for his role as George Poppett in the 1959 Bob Fosse musical Redhead, starring Gwen Verdon and set in London at the time of Jack the Ripper. IMDB reports that Stone and wife (since 1964) Carole H. Kleinman had a daughter – and in 2000 he won $4,250 and a trip to Bermuda on TV's Wheel of Fortune. __________________ "It's the way things are. A big tree falls and a new one grows right out of the same ground. Old animals die and young ones take their places. Even people step aside when it's time."* (R.G. Armstrong as the Contractor in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark") Last edited by Zoneboy : 11-03-2011 at 02:05 PM.

11-03-2011, 07:36 PM	#4
jehobden Senior Member Member Join Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: DFW Area, TX Posts: 1,253	This is a shame, but he did have a good long life. He was also a regular in the short-lived sitcom Camp Runamuck, and he appeared with his Camp Runamuck costar Dave Madden in the first season Partridge Family episode that introduced the group's number #1 song, I Think I Love You.