Stephen Joyce

Stephen Joyce is an American actor of theater, television and film. He was born March 7, 1931 in New York City, to Stephen James Joyce and Ruth Rita Reilly. The family moved to Brooklyn, and he attended parochial schools, Xavier High, a Jesuit Military school and Fordham University where he majored in theater. At the beginning of the Korean War he joined the Air Force and spent two years in the Far East. He is married to Billie Jean Jones, they have three children. A few weeks after his discharge he was cast as the juvenile lead In a George Montgomery movie Street of Sinners (1956). Later movie roles would include The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Irish Whiskey Rebellion (1972) The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) One Police Plaza (1980) A Stranger is Watching (1982) The Red Spider (1988) Stranger on my Land (1988), Billy Bathgate (1991), and Invasion (1992. Rarely has an actor worked as consistently as Mr. Joyce at no less than three of the Shakespeare Festivals and seven of the