Warren Stevens, Busy Character Actor, Dies at 92 Warren Stevens, a lanky, square-jawed actor with swept-back hair and a husky voice whose face became familiar through his more than 100 roles on television and in movies over six decades, died on Tuesday at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. The cause was chronic lung disease, his publicist, Dale Olson, said. Mr. Stevens, who first made his mark on the Broadway stage in the 1940s, became a versatile and ubiquitous presence on television in the "50s. He played three different characters on episodes of "Have Gun, Will Travel" between 1957 and 1963; three different characters on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" between 1965 and 1967; four characters on "Bonanza" between 1965 and 1970; and four on "Ironside" between 1967 and 1975. While Mr. Stevens would make appearances on dozens of other television series, perhaps his best-known role was in the classic 1956 science fiction movie "Forbidden Planet." He played the ill-fated Doc Ostrow, who perishes at the hand of a mysterious force on the planet Altair IV, 16 light years from Earth, after his spaceship arrives to search for a long-lost colony. In 1952, he had a supporting role as a reporter in the movie "Deadline, U.S.A.," in which Humphrey Bogart played the managing editor of a big-city newspaper seeking to dissuade its owners from selling it simply to free up their capital. Mr. Stevens was among the cast members who gave "conspicuously flavorsome and good" performances, Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times. Among his more than 40 films, Mr. Stevens also had roles in "The Barefoot Contessa," "Gunpoint," "Madigan," "Red Skies of Montana" and "Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell." His more than 60 television roles over the years included appearances (and sometimes recurring roles) on "Return to Peyton Place," "The Twilight Zone," "M*A*S*H," "Rawhide," "The Man From U.N.C.L.E" and "Gunsmoke." In recent years, he appeared with Lou Diamond Phillips, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Majors in the 2004 western "The Trail to Hope Rose" on the Hallmark Channel and in a 2006 episode of "ER." Warren Albert Stevens was born on Nov. 2, 1919, in Clarks Summit, Pa. By his early 20s, he was acting in summer stock in Virginia. After serving as a pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II, he came to New York and joined the Actors Studio. He soon had roles on Broadway in "Galileo," "Sundown Beach" and "The Smile of the World," and in radio soap operas including "The Aldrich Family." His break came in 1949 in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," a gritty account of the inner workings of a New York City police precinct that starred Ralph Bellamy. Brooks Atkinson wrote in The Times that "as a decent young man horrified to find himself a common criminal, Warren Stevens gives a fine, reticent performance." That performance led to a film contract with 20th Century Fox. Mr. Stevens is survived by his wife of 43 years, the former Barbara Fletcher, and their two sons, Adam and Mathew; and a son, Laurence, from a previous marriage, to Susan Huntington.