Tom Stechschulte

Thomas Andrew Stechschulte (November 1948 – June 7, 2021) was an American film and television actor. His most prominent role may have been that of the presidential candidate Robert Arthur in The Manchurian Candidate. He has also had guest appearances on the television series Law & Order (as Judge Harold Rockwell), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Mrs. Columbo.

Stechschulte was a prolific audiobook narrator, having performed, among others: Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and The Road, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, Harold Keith's Rifles for Watie, and Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island. He gave voice to several members of the Holland Family in various James Lee Burke novels, alternating with Will Patton. He also narrated the Watchmen: Motion Comic series.

He died on June 7, 2021, at the age of 72.

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