Birthday: 16 December 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Birth Name: John Forrest Fontaine
Jeffrey Stone spent 14 years in the film industry in Hollywood, Italy and Spain. The start to his career came as the model for "Prince Charming" in Disney's "Cinderella". He went on to play "D'Artagnan" in the TV series, I tre moschettieri (1956) (aka The Three Musketeers). He appeared in numerous movies and ...
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Jeffrey Stone spent 14 years in the film industry in Hollywood, Italy and Spain. The start to his career came as the model for "Prince Charming" in Disney's "Cinderella". He went on to play "D'Artagnan" in the TV series, I tre moschettieri (1956) (aka The Three Musketeers). He appeared in numerous movies and guest appearances on TV. He was under contract to David O. Selznick, Leonard Goldstein of 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios. He also wrote for the commercial film industry and wrote the story for Unearthly Stranger (1963) - now a cult film. In 1955, he married Corinne Calvet and they spent the next few years filming in France, Italy and Spain. In 1960, they were divorced. He went to Hong Kong in 1961 and wrote and directed Strange Portrait (1966), starring the late Jeffrey Hunter, co-starring Mai Tai Sing, from the Hong Kong (1960) TV series, and Barbara Lee from Flower Drum Song (1961).Stone spent the next 40 years traveling throughout India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia, after beginning his S.E. Asian travels and experiences from the Island of Tahiti. In his travels in Borneo, he visited the Penan and Dyak tribes (former head hunters) and explored prehistoric forests, living in the long houses and traveling with the tribes. He is one of the very few foreigners to shoot the famous Barum River rapids, learned to use the blow pipe and is an Honorary member of the Dyak Tribe. He has written one Khmer Bronze reference book and one Romantic Adventure novel, both published. He now spends his time writing adventure novels using S.E. Asia as a background. Show less «
Hollywood was the best time of my life. I was young and in an industry full of glamour and excitemen...Show more »
Hollywood was the best time of my life. I was young and in an industry full of glamour and excitement, the whole ball of wax. Looking back, the big imponderable is what would have happened if I hadn't left the States. Famous film writer? Director? Character actor? Who knows. But I have no regrets. Nope, no regrets what-so-ever! Show less «