James Lablache Stewart (6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993), better known as Stewart Granger, was an English actor.
He rose to fame through his roles in the 40s Gainsborough Pictures melodramas in the UK and became a popular heroic and romantic leading man from the 40s to the early 60s. He had a ten years career in Hollywood from 1950 to 1960.
He was married three times, including to Elspeth March (1938-1948) and to Jean Simmons (1950-1960).
Selected filmography:
- The Man in Grey (1943) as Peter Rokeby
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) as Apollodorus
- King Solomon's Mines (1950) as Allan Quatermain
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) as Rudolf Rassendyl / King Rudolf V
- Scaramouche (1952) as André Moreau aka "Scaramouche"
- Young Bess (1953) as Thomas Seymour
- Salome (1953) as Claudius
- The Little Hut (1957) as Sir Philip Ashlow
- North to Alaska (1960) as George Pratt
- Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) as Lot
- Old Surehand (1965) as Old Surehand
- The Virginian (1971) as Colonel Alan MacKenzie
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972) as Sherlock Holmes
- The Wild Geese (1978) as Sir Edward Matherson
