Rob Stone Net Worth

What Is Rob Stone's Net Worth?

Rob Stone is an American actor, director, producer, and writer who has a net worth of $1 million. Stone is best known for playing Kevin Owens on the ABC sitcom "Mr. Belvedere," appearing throughout the show's six-season run from 1985 to 1990. While many viewers remember him primarily as the eldest child in the Owens family, Stone largely left acting behind after the series and built a second career as a documentary filmmaker.

Stone founded Vienna Productions while he was still working as an actor and went on to produce and direct documentaries and television specials for networks including A&E and the History Channel. His projects have covered subjects ranging from military aviation to filmmaking, sports, medicine, and technology. One of his best-known projects was the 1994 documentary "Blue Angels: Around the World at the Speed of Sound," hosted by Dennis Quaid. Decades later, Stone helped originate and executive produced the 2024 IMAX documentary "The Blue Angels."

Early Life

Rob Stone was born on September 22, 1962, in Dallas, Texas. His father, Dr. Marvin Stone, was a prominent physician and oncologist in Dallas. Rob developed an interest in acting as a teenager and began performing onstage at the Dallas Theater Center.

In 1982, Stone moved to Los Angeles and attended the University of Southern California's drama school while pursuing professional acting opportunities. Within a few years, he began booking television roles.

Acting Career

Stone's early television appearances included roles on "The Facts of Life" and the science-fiction series "V." In 1985, he landed his breakthrough role as Kevin Owens on "Mr. Belvedere."

The sitcom centered on an English butler, played by Christopher Hewett, who goes to work for an American family in suburban Pittsburgh. Bob Uecker and Ilene Graff played parents George and Marsha Owens, while Stone, Tracy Wells, and Brice Beckham played their three children, Kevin, Heather, and Wesley.

Kevin was the family's oldest child, progressing from a somewhat directionless teenager to a young adult over the course of the series. Stone appeared throughout "Mr. Belvedere," which became a durable part of ABC's 1980s comedy lineup.

During the show's run, Stone also took roles in other television productions. He starred opposite Malcolm-Jamal Warner in the 1986 ABC Afterschool Special "A Desperate Exit," which dealt with teen suicide. His other credits included "Silver Spoons," "Rags to Riches," "21 Jump Street," the television movie "Crash Course," and additional ABC Afterschool Specials.

After "Mr. Belvedere," Stone appeared in a pilot for a television adaptation of "Revenge of the Nerds" and guest-starred on "Matlock." However, by then his professional interests had increasingly shifted behind the camera.

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Vienna Productions

Stone began developing his filmmaking career while "Mr. Belvedere" was still on television. He founded Vienna Productions, an independent production company focused primarily on documentaries and television specials.

One of his earliest projects was "The Sidewalk Motel," a short film about homelessness starring his former "Mr. Belvedere" co-star Christopher Hewett. Bruce Springsteen contributed a performance of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" to the project.

Stone's major breakthrough as a documentary filmmaker came with "Blue Angels: Around the World at the Speed of Sound." The film followed the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels during a historic international tour and was hosted by Dennis Quaid. It aired on A&E and received a CableACE Award.

Vienna Productions subsequently produced "Thunderbirds: Thunder Over the Pacific," hosted by Candice Bergen, and "Into the Wild Blue," hosted by Tom Skerritt. Both examined elite military flight teams and aired on the History Channel.

Stone also directed and produced "One Vision," an examination of the art of filmmaking featuring interviews with directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, Ron Howard, Robert Zemeckis, Penny Marshall, Sydney Pollack, and Rob Reiner.

Other Vienna Productions projects have included episodes of "Modern Marvels" and "Mail Call," programming about Title IX and women's sports, and the medical documentary "Sir William Osler: Science and the Art of Medicine," narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.

"The Blue Angels"

Stone's longtime connection to the Blue Angels eventually brought his filmmaking career full circle. After making his first documentary about the flight demonstration squadron in the 1990s, Stone and former Blue Angels commanding officer Greg "Boss" Wooldridge developed the idea for a new film using modern large-format camera technology.

The project evolved into the 2024 documentary "The Blue Angels." Directed by Paul Crowder and produced with collaborators including Glen Powell and J.J. Abrams, the film received unprecedented access to the Navy's flight demonstration squadron and was filmed for IMAX before being released on Amazon Prime Video.

Stone served as an executive producer, more than three decades after directing his first Blue Angels documentary.

Personal Life

Stone is married to Melissa Chan Stone. Unlike many actors associated with a successful childhood or young-adult television role, Stone made a deliberate transition away from performing and toward production and directing.

Through Vienna Productions, he turned what began as a behind-the-scenes interest during his "Mr. Belvedere" years into a decades-long filmmaking career, allowing him to remain in the entertainment industry while working primarily out of the spotlight.

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