Died 11 days after the death of his first wife actress Gloria Grahame.
In 1964 Stan and his wife, Maria Walek, adopted her eight-year-old
nephew, Sylvester, from Poland. The boy was the first child adopted
from a country behind the Iron Curtain under a proxy adoption
law.
He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
He is best remembered as Leo Gorcey's replacement as the leader of the Bowery Boys in the final entries of Monogram's/Allied Artists' highly popular film series.