
He took his professional name Stewart Granger to avoid confusion with James Stewart. His early English movies were "A Southern Maid" (1933), "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945) and "Captain Boycott" (1947). . Stewart left MGM during the 1960's co-producing mostly what would be considered mediocre "B" films in England, Germany, Italy and Serbia. Some of his better productions were "Sodom and Gomorrah" (1962) "Frontier Hellcat" (1964) "The Last Safari" (1967) and "Wild Geese" (1978).
He appeared as Old Surehand in three of Karl May’s Euro-westerns: “Frontier Hellcat” (1964), “Flaming Frontier” and “Rampage at Apache Wells” (both 1965)
Upon returning to the US in the 1970's, Hollywood was not interested in his services and he turned exclusively to TV movies and character acting for many major television shows. Finally a few of his television character acting appearances...Colonel Alan MacKenzie "The Men From Shiloh" and then revamped as "The Virginian." "Hotel" "The Wizard" and "Murder, She Wrote". Then in 1989, he made his Broadway debut opposite Rex Harrison and Glynis Jons in "The Circle," which won excellent reviews. He died at age 80 in Santa Monica, California a naturalized citizen of the United States from prostate cancer.
Today we remember Stewart Granger on what would have been his 100the birthday.
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