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
1977
- Supernatural as Mr Pettifer
1975
- Royal Flash as English General
1974
- The Carnforth Practice as Judge
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
- Village of the Damned as Professor Smith
- Sink the Bismarck! as Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
- Bottoms Up! as Police Officer
1959
- The Mummy as Coroner
- Too Many Crooks as Inspector Jensen
1958
- The Revenge of Frankenstein as Inspector
- Chain of Events as Bank Manager
- Further Up the Creek as Admiral
- The Secret Man as Dr. Warren
1957
- Quatermass 2 as The Police Commissioner
- The Naked Truth as Police Inspector
- The Betrayal
1956
- Johnny, You're Wanted as Surgeon
- Eyewitness as Chief Constable
- The Last Man to Hang as Magistrate
- Space School
- Tons of Trouble as Doctor
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Pinot
- Alias John Preston as Dr. Underwood
- John and Julie as Palace Policeman
- The Gilded Cage as Harding
- 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 Magic Box as 2nd Platform Man at Connaught
- The Ringer as Gardener
- To the Rescue as Owner of Kennels
1951
- The Railway Children
- Mr. Denning Drives North as Wilson
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
- Escape from Broadmoor as Inspector Thornton
- R.U.R. as Alquist
1947
- The Phantom Shot as Inspector Webb
- Mine Own Executioner as Dr. John Hayling
- 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
- Penn of Pennsylvania as Bindle
- The Big Blockade as Royal Navy: Naval Officer
- Banana Ridge as Chief Police Officer Staples
- Hard Steel as Alan Saunders
- The Seventh Survivor as Robert Cooper
- The Missing Million as Inspector Dicker
1941
- Ships with Wings as Commdr. Hood
- Old Mother Riley's Ghosts as John Cartwright
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
- Talking Feet as Dr. Roger Hood
- Pearls Bring Tears as Harry Willshire
1936
- Reasonable Doubt as Noel Hampton
1935
- Blind Justice as John Summers
- Once a Thief as Roger Drummond
- D’Ye Ken John Peel? as Captain Moonlight / Captain Freeman
- Abdul the Damned as Talak Pasha, Officer of Turkish Army
- Lend Me Your Husband as Jeff Green
1934
- The Black Abbot as Frank Brooks
- The Blue Squadron as Colonel Mario Spada
- Bella Donna as Nigel Armine
- The Green Pack as Larry Dean
1933
- The Wandering Jew as Pietro Morelli (Phase III)
- The Pointing Finger as Lord Rollestone
- The Lost Chord as David Graham
- Mayfair Girl as Robert Blair
- Love's Old Sweet Song as Paul Kingslake
- Enemy of the Police as John Meakin
- Little Fella as Major Tony Griffiths
- This Week of Grace as Henry Baring
- The House of Trent as John Trent
1932
- Number Seventeen as Barton
- The Mistress of Atlantis as Lt. Saint-Avit
- In a Monastery Garden as Michael Ferrier
- 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
- The Nipper as Max Nicholson
- Kissing Cup's Race as Lord Jimmy Hilhoxton
- No Exit as Bill Alden
- Eve's Fall as Jack Tremaine
- Children of Chance as Gordon
- High Seas as Tony Bracklethorpe
1929
- Atlantic as Lawrence
- Kitty as Alex St. George
- Taxi for Two as Jack Devenish
1928
- Yacht of the Seven Sins as Kilian Gurlitt
- Sailors Don't Care as Slinger Woods
- The Flight Commander as John Massey
- Smashing Through as Richard Bristol
- Mademoiselle Parley Voo as John Smith - Theater Manager
1927
- Hindle Wakes as Allan Jeffcote
- Mademoiselle from Armentieres as Johnny
- The Glad Eye as Maurice
- Roses of Picardy as Lieutenant Skene
- London Love as Harry Raymond
- A Woman in Pawn as James Rawdon
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 Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots as George Douglas
- His Grace Gives Notice as Joseph Longley
- The Alley of Golden Hearts as Jack
1923
- The School for Scandal as Charles Surface
- The Mistletoe Bough as Lord Lovell
- Little Miss Nobody as Guy Cheviot
1920
- The Great Gay Road as Rodney Foster