STEWART GRANGER
Name: Stewart Granger
Birth name: James Lablache Stewart
Born: 6 May 1913 London, England
Died: 16 August 1993 Santa Monica, California
Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 - August 16, 1993), born James Lablache Stewart,
was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading
roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular leading man in
the 40s, 50s and 60s.
He was born in London, and educated at Epsom College. The grandson of the actor
Luigi Lablache, he was obliged to change his name in order to avoid being
confused with the famous American actor James Stewart. As Granger reported in an
interview once, his off-screen friends called him "Jimmy".
In 1933, he made his film debut as an extra. His first starring role was in the
Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a film that
helped to make him a huge star in Britain. In the early 1950s, he moved to
Hollywood and starred in a number of swashbucklers and other adventure films for
which his theatrical voice, stature (6'3" 191 cm) and dignified profile made him
a natural, such as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Scaramouche (1952) and the 1952
remake of The Prisoner of Zenda, but he was just as dashing in comedies, as
demonstrated by his performance in North To Alaska with John Wayne.
In Germany, Granger acted in the role of Old Surehand in three western movies
adapted from novels by German author Karl May, with French actor Pierre Brice (playing
the fictional Indian chief Winnetou), in Unter Geiern (Frontier Hellcat) (1964),
Der Ölprinz (Rampage at Apache Wells) (1965) and Old Surehand (Flaming Frontier)
(1965).
He was united with Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, also a Karl May movie hero, in
Gern hab' ich die Frauen gekillt (Killer's Carnival) (1966). In the German Edgar
Wallace movie series of the 1960s, he was seen in The Trygon Factor (1966).
Towards the end of his career, Granger even starred in a German soap-opera
called Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (The Guldenburg Heritage) (1987).
Name: Stewart Granger
Birth name: James Lablache Stewart
Born: 6 May 1913 London, England
Died: 16 August 1993 Santa Monica, California
Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 - August 16, 1993), born James Lablache Stewart,
was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading
roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular leading man in
the 40s, 50s and 60s.
He was born in London, and educated at Epsom College. The grandson of the actor
Luigi Lablache, he was obliged to change his name in order to avoid being
confused with the famous American actor James Stewart. As Granger reported in an
interview once, his off-screen friends called him "Jimmy".
In 1933, he made his film debut as an extra. His first starring role was in the
Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a film that
helped to make him a huge star in Britain. In the early 1950s, he moved to
Hollywood and starred in a number of swashbucklers and other adventure films for
which his theatrical voice, stature (6'3" 191 cm) and dignified profile made him
a natural, such as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Scaramouche (1952) and the 1952
remake of The Prisoner of Zenda, but he was just as dashing in comedies, as
demonstrated by his performance in North To Alaska with John Wayne.
In Germany, Granger acted in the role of Old Surehand in three western movies
adapted from novels by German author Karl May, with French actor Pierre Brice (playing
the fictional Indian chief Winnetou), in Unter Geiern (Frontier Hellcat) (1964),
Der Ölprinz (Rampage at Apache Wells) (1965) and Old Surehand (Flaming Frontier)
(1965).
He was united with Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, also a Karl May movie hero, in
Gern hab' ich die Frauen gekillt (Killer's Carnival) (1966). In the German Edgar
Wallace movie series of the 1960s, he was seen in The Trygon Factor (1966).
Towards the end of his career, Granger even starred in a German soap-opera
called Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (The Guldenburg Heritage) (1987).