Biography

Jeffrey Stone spent 14 years in the film industry in Hollywood, Italy, and Spain. His career began as the model for "Prince Charming" in Disney's "Cinderella". He went on to play D'Artagnan in the The Three Musketeers (1956) (aka The Three Musketeers). He appeared in numerous movies and guest appearances on TV. He was under contract to David O. Selznick, Leonard Goldstein of 20th Century-Fox and Universal Studios. He also wrote for the commercial film industry and wrote the story for Unearthly Stranger (1963) - now a cult film. In 1955, he married Corinne Calvet and they spent the next few years filming in France, Italy and Spain. In 1960, they divorced. He went to Hong Kong in 1961 and wrote and directed Strange Portrait (1966), starring Jeffrey Hunter and Mai Tai Sing.

Stone spent the next 40 years traveling throughout India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia, after beginning his Asian travels and experiences from Tahiti. In his travels in Borneo, he visited the Penan and Dyak tribes (former headhunters) and explored prehistoric forests, living in the long houses, and traveling with the tribes. He was one of the very few foreigners to shoot the famous Barum River rapids, learned to use the blow pipe and was an honorary member of the Dyak Tribe. He wrote one Khmer Bronze reference book and one Romantic Adventure novel, both published. He spent spends his time writing adventure novels using Southeast Asia as a background. He died at age 85 in Penang, Malaysia.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Louise Little (updated by Robert Sieger)