Henry Stuart (actor)

Henry Stuart
Born	1 February 1885 Cairo, Egypt
Died	1942
Other names	Henry Eduard Hess
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1923-1942 (film)

Henry Stuart (1885–1942) was a British-Swiss film actor known for his work in Germany. Stuart was born in Cairo, but educated in Britain. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, intending to become a painter. After moving into the German film industry following the First World War, Stuart played a number of prominent supporting roles in productions such as Joyless Street (1925). Stuart's film career largely ended with the arrival of sound, and he worked increasingly on the stage. His final film appearance was a small role in the Nazi agfacolor epic Münchhausen (1943), released after his death.

Filmography

• A Glass of Water (1923)
• Joyless Street (1925)
• The Wig (1925)
• The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925)
• Wrath of the Seas (1926)
• The Man in the Fire (1926)
• Two and a Lady (1926)
• The Street of Forgetting (1926)
• Derby (1926)
• Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1927)
• The Girl Without a Homeland (1927)
• Flirtation (1927)
• The Woman with the World Record (1927)
• Excluded from the Public (1927)
• The Beggar from Cologne Cathedral (1927)
• Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden (1927)
• Sajenko the Soviet (1928)
• Give Me Life (1928)
• Der Ring der Bajadere (1928)
• Favorite of Schonbrunn (1929)
• Scandal in Baden-Baden (1929)
• The Right to Love (1930)
• Germanin - Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat (1943)
• Münchhausen (1943)

Bibliography

• Isenberg, Noah William. Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. Columbia University Press, 2009.

External links

• Henry Stuart at IMDb