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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-07-17 (126 years old)

Place of Birth

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK

John Stuart

Biography:

John Stuart (John Alfred Louden Croall; 18 July 1898 – 17 October 1979) was born to Scottish parents, and was a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to talking pictures in the 1930s and his film career went on to span almost six decades. He appeared in 172 films (including shorts), 123 stage plays, and 103 television plays and series.

Known For

Acting

1978

Superman as 10th Elder

1975

Royal Flash as English General

1974

1963

The Scarlet Blade as Beverley
Paranoiac as Williams
The Human Jungle as Dr. MacRae

1962

Danger by My Side as Terry - Undercover Detective

1960

Sink the Bismarck! as Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
Village of the Damned as Professor Smith
Bottoms Up! as Police Officer

1959

The Mummy as Coroner
Too Many Crooks as Inspector Jensen

1958

The Secret Man as Dr. Warren
Chain of Events as Bank Manager

1957

Quatermass 2 as The Police Commissioner
The Naked Truth as Police Inspector

1956

Tons of Trouble as Doctor
The Last Man to Hang as Magistrate
Eyewitness as Chief Constable

1955

Alias John Preston as Dr. Underwood
The Gilded Cage as Harding
It's a Great Day as Detective Inspector

1954

1953

Street Corner as Magistrate

1952

To the Rescue as Owner of Kennels
The Ringer as Gardener
The Magic Box as 2nd Platform Man at Connaught

1951

1949

Ten Little Indians as Dr. Edward Armstrong
Third Time Lucky as Inspector
The Man from Yesterday as Gerald Amersley
Man on the Run as Det. Inspector Jim McBane

1948

House of Darkness as Crabtree
Escape from Broadmoor as Inspector Thornton
R.U.R. as Alquist

1947

Mine Own Executioner as Dr. John Hayling
The Phantom Shot as Inspector Webb
Mrs. Fitzherbert as Duke of Bedford

1945

Madonna of the Seven Moons as Guiseppe Labardi

1944

Candles at Nine as William Gardener, Turf Commission

1943

Headline as L.B. Ellington
Women Aren't Angels as Major Gaunt

1942

Hard Steel as Alan Saunders
The Missing Million as Inspector Dicker
The Seventh Survivor as Robert Cooper
Banana Ridge as Chief Police Officer Staples

1941

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts as John Cartwright
Ships with Wings as Commdr. Hood

1940

1938

1937

Pearls Bring Tears as Harry Willshire
The Show Goes On as Mack McDonald
Talking Feet as Dr. Roger Hood

1936

Reasonable Doubt as Noel Hampton

1935

Abdul the Damned as Talak Pasha, Officer of Turkish Army
Lend Me Your Husband as Jeff Green
Once a Thief as Roger Drummond
Blind Justice as John Summers
D’Ye Ken John Peel? as Captain Moonlight / Captain Freeman

1934

The Black Abbot as Frank Brooks
Bella Donna as Nigel Armine
The Green Pack as Larry Dean

1933

The Wandering Jew as Pietro Morelli (Phase III)
Love's Old Sweet Song as Paul Kingslake
The Pointing Finger as Lord Rollestone
This Week of Grace as Henry Baring
The House of Trent as John Trent
The Lost Chord as David Graham
Mayfair Girl as Robert Blair
Little Fella as Major Tony Griffiths

1932

The Mistress of Atlantis as Lt. Saint-Avit
Verdict of the Sea as Gentleman Burton
In a Monastery Garden as Michael Ferrier
Men of Steel as James 'Iron' Harg

1931

The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sir Henry Baskerville
Hindle Wakes as Alan Jeffcote
The Wrong Mr. Perkins as Larry Byrne

1930

High Seas as Tony Bracklethorpe
Eve's Fall as Jack Tremaine
The Nipper as Max Nicholson
No Exit as Bill Alden
Kissing Cup's Race as Lord Jimmy Hilhoxton

1929

Taxi for Two as Jack Devenish
Atlantic as Lawrence
Kitty as Alex St. George

1928

Sailors Don't Care as Slinger Woods
Yacht of the Seven Sins as Kilian Gurlitt
Smashing Through as Richard Bristol

1927

Hindle Wakes as Allan Jeffcote
A Woman in Pawn as James Rawdon
The Glad Eye as Maurice
Roses of Picardy as Lieutenant Skene

1926

1925

The Pleasure Garden as Hugh Fielding
We Women as Michael Rivven
A Daughter of Love as Dudley Bellairs

1924

His Grace Gives Notice as Joseph Longley

1923

The Mistletoe Bough as Lord Lovell
The School for Scandal as Charles Surface
Little Miss Nobody as Guy Cheviot

1920

The Great Gay Road as Rodney Foster

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