John Stuart
Born: 1898-07-17 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
Died: 1979-10-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1991
- The Emperor's New Clothes ... (Music)
1983
- Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet ... (Music)
- David Copperfield ... (Music)
1978
- Superman as 10th Elder
1975
- Royal Flash as English General
1964
- Theatre 625 as Ardrossan
1963
- The Human Jungle as Dr. MacRae
- The Scarlet Blade as Beverley
- Paranoiac as Williams
1962
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook as Anaesthetist
- Danger by My Side as Prison Governor
1960
- Bottoms Up! as Police Officer
- Village of the Damned as Professor Smith
- Sink the Bismarck! as Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
1959
- The Mummy as Coroner
- Too Many Crooks as Inspector Jensen
1958
- The Revenge of Frankenstein as Inspector
- The Secret Man as Dr. Warren
- Chain of Events as Bank Manager
- Further Up the Creek as Admiral
1957
- The Naked Truth as Police Inspector
- Quatermass 2 as The Police Commissioner
1956
- Eyewitness as Chief Constable
- Tons of Trouble as Doctor
- Johnny, You're Wanted as Surgeon
- The Last Man to Hang as Magistrate
- Space School
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Pinot
- The Gilded Cage as Harding
- Alias John Preston as Dr. Underwood
- John and Julie as Palace Policeman
- It's a Great Day as Detective Inspector
1954
- Mark Saber as George Hilton
- The Men of Sherwood Forest as Moraine
- The Lost Planet
1953
- Street Corner as Magistrate
1952
- The Ringer as Gardener
- The Magic Box as 2nd Platform Man at Connaught
- To the Rescue as Owner of Kennels
1951
- Mr. Denning Drives North as Wilson
- The Railway Children
1949
- Man on the Run as Det. Inspector Jim McBane
- The Man from Yesterday as Gerald Amersley
- Third Time Lucky as Inspector
- Ten Little Indians as Dr. Edward Armstrong
1948
- House of Darkness as Crabtree
- R.U.R. as Alquist
- Escape from Broadmoor as Inspector Thornton
1947
- Mrs. Fitzherbert as Duke of Bedford
- The Phantom Shot as Inspector Webb
- Mine Own Executioner as Dr. John Hayling
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
- Penn of Pennsylvania as Bindle
- The Seventh Survivor as Robert Cooper
- The Missing Million as Inspector Dicker
- Banana Ridge as Chief Police Officer Staples
1941
- Old Mother Riley's Ghosts as John Cartwright
- Ships with Wings as Commdr. Hood
1940
- Old Mother Riley in Society as Tony Morgan
1938
- The Claydon Treasure Mystery as Peter Kerrigan
1937
- The Show Goes On as Mack McDonald
- Pearls Bring Tears as Harry Willshire
- Talking Feet as Dr. Roger Hood
1936
- Reasonable Doubt as Noel Hampton
1935
- Blind Justice as John Summers
- Abdul the Damned as Talak Pasha, Officer of Turkish Army
- Lend Me Your Husband as Jeff Green
- D’Ye Ken John Peel? as Captain Moonlight / Captain Freeman
- Once a Thief as Roger Drummond
1934
- The Green Pack as Larry Dean
- Bella Donna as Nigel Armine
- The Blue Squadron as Colonel Mario Spada
- The Black Abbot as Frank Brooks
1933
- This Week of Grace as Henry Baring
- The House of Trent as John Trent
- Little Fella as Major Tony Griffiths
- Love's Old Sweet Song as Paul Kingslake
- The Wandering Jew as Pietro Morelli (Phase III)
- The Pointing Finger as Lord Rollestone
- Mayfair Girl as Robert Blair
- The Lost Chord as David Graham
- Enemy of the Police as John Meakin
1932
- Number Seventeen as Barton
- In a Monastery Garden as Michael Ferrier
- The Mistress of Atlantis as Lt. Saint-Avit
- Men of Steel as James 'Iron' Harg
- Verdict of the Sea as Gentleman Burton
1931
- Hindle Wakes as Alan Jeffcote
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sir Henry Baskerville
- The Wrong Mr. Perkins as Larry Byrne
1930
- Elstree Calling
- No Exit as Bill Alden
- High Seas as Tony Bracklethorpe
- The Nipper as Max Nicholson
- Eve's Fall as Jack Tremaine
- Kissing Cup's Race as Lord Jimmy Hilhoxton
- Children of Chance as Gordon
1929
- Atlantic as Lawrence
- Kitty as Alex St. George
- Taxi for Two as Jack Devenish
1928
- Smashing Through as Richard Bristol
- The Flight Commander as John Massey
- Sailors Don't Care as Slinger Woods
- Yacht of the Seven Sins as Kilian Gurlitt
- Mademoiselle Parley Voo as John Smith - Theater Manager
1927
- Hindle Wakes as Allan Jeffcote
- A Woman in Pawn as James Rawdon
- Roses of Picardy as Lieutenant Skene
- The Glad Eye as Maurice
- London Love as Harry Raymond
- Mademoiselle from Armentieres as Johnny
1926
- The Tower of London
- Baddesley Manor: The Phantom Gambler as Stephen Ellis
1925
- The Pleasure Garden as Hugh Fielding
- A Daughter of Love as Dudley Bellairs
- We Women as Michael Rivven
1924
- The Alley of Golden Hearts as Jack
- The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots as George Douglas
- His Grace Gives Notice as Joseph Longley
1923
- The School for Scandal as Charles Surface
- Little Miss Nobody as Guy Cheviot
- The Mistletoe Bough as Lord Lovell
1920
- The Great Gay Road as Rodney Foster