Stone was also cast in seven films with Greta Garbo, including in the role of Doctor Otternschlag in the 1932 drama Grand Hotel.

[5] After obtaining his public education in Worcester, Lewis joined the United States Army during the Spanish–American War, serving as a lieutenant and later being deployed to China to train troops.

For eight years, he held the role as leading man with the Oliver Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles.

For the summer of 1913 Stone appeared at Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado, as the leading man for the season.

[1] He showed up in First National's 1920 Nomads of the North to good effect playing a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman.

He played adventurers in the dinosaur epic The Lost World (1925) with Wallace Beery and The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) with Boris Karloff, and a police captain in Bureau of Missing Persons (1933).

During the heyday of the series, Stone also appeared with Rooney in the short subject Andy Hardy's Dilemma, which promoted charitable donations to the Community Chest.

"The court ruled for Stone even though derricks ringed the beach ..."[8] In the 1930s he owned a 104-foot luxury yacht named Serena.

[1] He reportedly suffered a heart attack while chasing away some neighborhood kids[1] who were throwing rocks at his garage or trampling his meticulously kept prized garden.

Another published report states that on that date Stone and his third wife were watching television when they heard a racket in the back yard.

When he investigated, Stone found lawn furniture once again floating in the pool and glimpsed three or perhaps four teenage boys running toward the street.