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Randy Stone (August 26, 1958 – February 12, 2007) was an American actor and casting director, and Academy Award winner. ==Career== Stone began his acting career in 1976 as a child actor on ''Charlie's Angels''. However, most of his acting roles were as an adult. He appeared in two episodes of ''Space: Above and Beyond'', and did two film roles. His most notable performance, however, was as the hapless gay Los Angeles millionaire Michael Beebe in the second-season episode ''Beware of the Dog'' on the television series ''Millennium''. However, Stone's primary career was as a casting director. He began this career with The Landsberg Company in 1981. His first job was casting the NBC series ''Gimme A Break!''. He was head of casting at 20th Century Fox Television, and was responsible for casting David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on ''The X-Files'' and Lance Henriksen on ''Millennium''. In 1998, Stone, who was gay, was terminated at Fox and filed a complaint with the California State Labor Commission that he had been illegally discriminated against on the basis of his sexual orientation. The company refused to comply with the Commission's decision. Among his more notable film and television casting jobs were the film ''Jaws 3-D'' (1983), the made-for-TV movie ''The Ryan White Story'' (1989), Cameron Crowe's directorial film debut ''Say Anything...'' (1989), the made-for-TV movie ''The Incident'' (1990) and the television series ''Space: Above and Beyond''. In later years, he also produced several films. He was executive producer for the film ''Little Man Tate'', Jodie Foster's directorial debut motion picture. (During the 2007 Academy Awards, Foster referred to his death, and called him her "best friend.") He and co-producer Peggy Rajski won an Oscar for the 1994 short film ''Trevor'', a comedy-drama about a gay teenage boy's attempted suicide.〔There was a tie for the Oscar in 1995. ''Trevor'' shared the Oscar with the short film ''Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life'' (1993).〕 A revised version for television co-starred Ellen DeGeneres. In 2006, Stone wrote and executive produced the made-for-TV movie ''A Little Thing Called Murder'', starring Judy Davis, based on the story of murderer Sante Kimes. It won him the International Press Academy's Satellite Award for Motion Picture Made for Television. The 2008 motion picture, ' was dedicated in his memory in the closing credits. Stone died of heart disease at his home in Beverly Hills, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Randy Stone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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