--- name: "John Stockwell" canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-stockwell" fi1m_id: "john-stockwell" imdb_id: "nm0007082" tmdb_id: 57082 wikidata_id: "Q944198" roles: ["Actor"] born: "25 March 1961" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:41:13.300425+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # John Stockwell ## Identity John Stockwell - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-stockwell - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** john-stockwell - **IMDb ID:** nm0007082 - **TMDB ID:** 57082 - **Wikidata ID:** Q944198 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockwell_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57082 Actor. Born 25 March 1961 in Galveston, Texas, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 25 March 1961, Galveston, Texas, USA - **Also known as:** جان استاکول - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockwell_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57082 ## Streaming the US now - **Hulu:** [*Top Gun*](https://film.one/film/top-gun.md) (71) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography John Stockwell is an American actor and filmmaker. Born on 25 March 1961 in Galveston, Texas, he began his career as an international model in Italy. He later attended Harvard University and made his feature film debut in a small role in *So Fine* (1981). His early acting roles included *Christine* (1983) as Dennis Guilder and *Top Gun* (1986) as Cougar. Stockwell went on to direct and write several films, including *Crazy/Beautiful* (2001), *Blue Crush* (2002), *Into the Blue* (2005) and *Turistas* (2006). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for writing the television film *Cheaters* (2000). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Top Gun* (1986), Fi1m 71, as Cougar — [page](https://film.one/film/top-gun.md) ## Complete filmography (46) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Armed Response* (2017), Director - *Kickboxer: Vengeance* (2016), Director - *Countdown* (2016), Director - *Cat Run 2* (2014), Director - *Kid Cannabis* (2014), Writer, Director - *In the Blood* (2014), Director - *Breaking the Girls* (2013), as David Layton - *Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden* (2012), Director - *Dark Tide* (2012), Director - *Cat Run* (2011), Director - *Middle of Nowhere* (2008), Director, Producer - *Turistas* (2006), Director, Producer - *Into the Blue* (2005), Director - *The L Word* (2004), series, Director - *Blue Crush* (2002), Director, Screenplay - *Rock Star* (2001), Screenplay - *Crazy/Beautiful* (2001), Director - *Cheaters* (2000), News Producer, Writer, Director - *Breast Men* (1997), as Robert Renaud · Screenplay - *Legal Deceit* (1997), Actor - *Stag* (1997), as Victor Mallick - *The Nurse* (1997), as Jack Martin - *I Shot a Man in Vegas* (1996), as Grant - *Relativity* (1996), series, Actor - *Nixon* (1995), as Staffer #1 - *Aurora: Operation Intercept* (1995), as Andy Aldrich - *Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart* (1994), as Peter Rubin - *Born to Ride* (1991), as Capt. Jack Hassler - *Millions* (1991), as David Phipps - *The Eyes of the Panther* (1989), as Malcolm Barrington - *Nightmare Classics* (1989), series, as Malcom Barrington - *Under Cover* (1987), Director, Writer - *Billionaire Boys Club* (1987), as Brad Sedgwick - *Billionaire Boys Club* (1987), series, as Brad Sedgwick - *Friday the 13th: The Series* (1987), series, as Tim Ayres - *Radioactive Dreams* (1986), as Phillip Chandler - *Top Gun* (1986), as Cougar — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/top-gun.md) - *Dangerously Close* (1986), as Randy McDevitt · Screenplay - *North and South* (1985), series, as Billy Hazard - *City Limits* (1985), as Lee - *My Science Project* (1985), as Michael Harlan - *Christine* (1983), as Dennis Guilder - *Quarterback Princess* (1983), as Scott Massey - *Eddie and the Cruisers* (1983), as Keith Livingston - *Losin' It* (1983), as Spider - *So Fine* (1981), as Jim Sterling ## Gallery - ![John Stockwell](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-35b12440c7b3.jpg) John Stockwell — MiamiFilmFestival, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Director_John_Stockwell_at_MIFF_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Actor/Director John Stockwell at the 2014 Miami International Film Festival presentation of Kid Cannibis Photo by: Alberto Tamargo](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-24d40a15af62.jpg) Actor/Director John Stockwell at the 2014 Miami International Film Festival presentation of Kid Cannibis Photo by: Alberto Tamargo — MiamiFilmFestival, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Director_John_Stockwell_at_MIFF.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![John Stockwell](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-ba90ffadda72.jpg) John Stockwell — Image via TMDB - ![John Stockwell](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-30fb05a924df.jpg) John Stockwell — Image via TMDB - ![John Stockwell](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-76c4c91a7739.jpg) John Stockwell — Image via TMDB - ![John Stockwell](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-8f9431482c7c.jpg) John Stockwell — Image via TMDB - ![John Stockwell](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-dc794d22d0e2.jpg) John Stockwell — Image via TMDB - ![John Stockwell](https://film.one/media/person/118623/gallery-7a3da09c9978.jpg) John Stockwell — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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