Jeffrey Stone
| Jeffrey Stone | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Forrest Fontaine 16 December 1926 Detroit, Michigan |
| Died | August 22, 2012 (aged 85) Penang, Malaysia |
| Occupation | Actor, voice-over artist |
| Years active | 1948 - 1966 |
| Spouse(s) |
Barbara Lawrence (m. 1947; div. 1948) Corinne Calvet (m. 1955–60) Christina Lee (m. 1965; div. 1972) |
Jeffrey Stone (December 16, 1926 – August 22, 2012) was an American actor and voice-over artist. Stone was the model and inspiration for Prince Charming in the 1950 Walt Disney animated feature film, Cinderella. While he did not voice the character in the film, Stone did provide some of the movie's additional voices.
Stone was born John Forrest Fontaine on December 16, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in an Indiana orphanage throughout most of his early life after the death of his father. He enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II.
His first marriage to actress Barbara Lawrence from 1947 to 1948 ended in divorce. Stone was then married to his second wife, Corinne Calvet, a French actress, from 1955 to 1960, with whom he had one child. In 1965, he married Christina Lee, but they divorced in 1972.
He made his film debut in a pair of 1948 movies, You Were Meant for Me and Train to Alcatraz. In 1952, he appeared in two films using the stage name John Fontaine, Army Bound and Battle Zone. He then appeared in three films released in 1953 films - Fighter Attack, Bad for Each Other, starring Charlton Heston, and Wonder Valley - as well as the 1954 film noir, Drive a Crooked Road. During the later 1950s, Stone co-starred in Edge of Hell in 1956 and Zsa Zsa Gabor's The Girl in the Kremlin in 1957. He then appeared in four films released in 1958 - The Big Beat, Damn Citizen, The Thing That Couldn't Die and the western, Money, Women and Guns.
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