John Stuart
Biography
John Stuart was a Scottish actor who became a leading man in British silent films during the 1920s and later made the change to sound pictures, his screen career lasting almost six decades. Born in Edinburgh, he moved to London as a child. He had no acting training when he began on stage at the Old Vic in 1919 in The Trojan Women. Walter West then gave him a small part in the silent film Her Son in 1920. He went on to star in many silent features, including Alfred Hitchcock's first film as director, The Pleasure Garden (1925). He continued with Hitchcock on the thriller Number Seventeen (1932), playing a detective. In his later years he often played middle-class professionals, and he appeared in the Hammer films The Mummy (1959), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) and Blood of the Vampire (1958), as well as Sink the Bismarck! (1960). He died in 1979.
81years old at death
- Born Edinburgh
- Died London
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 38 years1925 to 1963
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First role
Stuart went back to the stage when the British film industry hit a slump. He first appeared in the West End as Lord Bleane in Somerset Maugham's Our Betters, a play that had 548 performances.
A first
When Stuart opened the new Clapham Pavilion cinema, cheering fans were so enthusiastic that police protection was needed for him.
A first
Stuart's 1929 film Kitty, made with Estelle Brody and directed by Victor Saville, was one of the first British talkies, with dialogue recorded in New York because Britain lacked sound equipment.
John Stuart movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Terence Fisher directed two of these films, Alfred Hitchcock two. Michael Ripper appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Michael Ripper's page
Peter Cushing's page
Oliver Reed's page
Marianne Stone's page
Maurice Denham's page
Lionel Jeffries's page
Terence FisherDirector, 2 films, 1958 to 1959
All films by Terence Fisher
All films by Alfred Hitchcock
Also two films together6 more actors
- Laurence NaismithSink the Bismarck! (1960) and Village of the Damned (1960)
- Charles Lloyd PackThe Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) and Enemy from Space (1957)
- George WoodbridgeThe Mummy (1959) and The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
- Arnold DiamondParanoiac (1963) and The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
- Barbara ShelleyVillage of the Damned (1960) and Blood of the Vampire (1958)
- Michael GwynnVillage of the Damned (1960) and The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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