John Stuart
Birthday: 1898-07-17
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
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.
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The Revenge of Frankenstein
Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he ...
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The Wandering Jew
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvar...
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Alias John Preston
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impressi...
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The Scarlet Blade
A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters roy...
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Pearls Bring Tears
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for th...
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Love's Old Sweet Song
'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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Reasonable Doubt
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the ...
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The Gilded Cage
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the ...
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Paranoiac
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly g...
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Number Seventeen
A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detec...
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The Pleasure Garden
Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune....
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Sink the Bismarck!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...
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The Blue Squadron
Two young officers in the Italian Royal Air Force (Knight and Stuart) compete for the hand of the at...
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in t...
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret...
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Hindle Wakes
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy...
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A Woman in Pawn
'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalog...
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Sailors Don't Care
'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Cat...
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The Glad Eye
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an ex...
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Headline
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murd...
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The Mistress of Atlantis
In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of whi...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on th...
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We Women
A sacked skater falls into the clutches of an actor who abandoned a girl and her baby....
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Yacht of the Seven Sins
The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard ar...
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Abdul the Damned
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by t...
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The Pointing Finger
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance....
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention...
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Hard Steel
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition ...
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House of Darkness
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow k...
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This Week of Grace
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, sh...
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The House of Trent
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he...
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The Show Goes On
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer w...
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Johnny, You're Wanted
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on,...
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Talking Feet
An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for...
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Lend Me Your Husband
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital far...
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Village of the Damned
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child...
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Superman
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Cla...
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The Ringer
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him....
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The Missing Million
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an a...
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The Black Abbot
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich ...
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Further Up the Creek
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey...
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Escape from Broadmoor
A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered s...
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Mine Own Executioner
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help....
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Hindle Wakes
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the ...
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Taxi for Two
'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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Women Aren't Angels
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, ...
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Candles at Nine
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is so...
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The Lost Chord
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalo...
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Ten Little Indians
Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely var...
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The Great Gay Road
A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man....
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Verdict of the Sea
When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origin...
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The Tower of London
In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ...
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In a Monastery Garden
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a pri...
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His Grace Gives Notice
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a marri...
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested...
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The Alley of Golden Hearts
A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle...
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Ships with Wings
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for...
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Royal Flash
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19t...
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Quatermass 2
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the ...
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The Seventh Survivor
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat ca...
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Old Mother Riley in Society
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kit...
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Tons of Trouble
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."...
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Children of Chance
A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and...
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Elstree Calling
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television b...
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Banana Ridge
When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion...
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No Exit
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a ...
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Once a Thief
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but thing...
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The Wrong Mr. Perkins
An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name......
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Men of Steel
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attenti...
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Atlantic
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and s...
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The Secret Man
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station....
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R.U.R.
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization thro...
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Bella Donna
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurr...
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The Last Man to Hang
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose....
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Eyewitness
After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads fo...
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The School for Scandal
An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune....
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Mr. Denning Drives North
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character ...
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Street Corner
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th...
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Bottoms Up!
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise th...
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Third Time Lucky
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his m...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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The Man from Yesterday
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has...
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Chain of Events
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences...
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Blind Justice
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to re...
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring ...
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The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen....
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintanc...
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The Phantom Shot
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his th...
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It's a Great Day
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera...
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Kitty
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comfort...
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The Naked Truth
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the per...
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Man on the Run
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds h...
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The Mummy
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally m...
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Too Many Crooks
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Go...
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Roses of Picardy
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son....
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fit...
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A Daughter of Love
A Lord objects to his son's love for a bastard until a society doctor is revealed as her father....
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London Love
A rich man's chauffeur kills his mistress and frames his daughter's fiancé....
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The Flight Commander
In China, a pilot saves British residents from a Bolshevik's massacre plot....
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Mademoiselle from Armentieres
A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy....
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John and Julie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....
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