Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens was an American actor who worked in film and television, born Richard William Stevens in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied painting, became active in theater, and worked as a radio announcer in Akron before moving to Hollywood in 1943 as a Warner Bros. contract player, first billed as Stephen Richards in small parts in films such as Objective, Burma! (1945). Signed by 20th Century-Fox, he took the name Mark Stevens and played romantic leads, among them the film noir The Dark Corner (1946) and The Snake Pit (1948) as Olivia de Havilland's husband, plus the undercover FBI story The Street with No Name (1948). He later starred in the noir Between Midnight and Dawn (1950), directed and starred in features such as Time Table (1956), led the television series Martin Kane, Private Eye from 1953 to 1954 and Big Town from 1954 to 1956, and appeared in Fate Is the Hunter (1964). He died in 1994.