About Athole Stewart
Lived 1879 – 1940 (aged 61). Athole Stewart was a British actor and film actor.
Athole Chalmers Stewart (25 June 1879 – 18 October 1940) was a British stage and latterly film actor, often in authoritarian or aristocratic roles.
On stage, he played in the original production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1925. On film, he played Dr. Watson to Raymond Massey's Holmes in The Speckled Band, in 1931.
Athole is buried in the Churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire alongside his wife Ellen Frances Stewart OBE, daughter of the late general William Sparkes Hatch.
Selected filmography Athole appeared in the following films:
To What Red Hell (1929) Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930) The Speckled Band (1931) The Faithful Heart (1932) Frail Women (1932) The Constant Nymph (1933) Loyalties (1933) The Four Masked Men (1934) The Path of Glory (1934) The Clairvoyant (1935) While Parents Sleep (1935) The Amateur Gentleman (1936) The Tenth Man (1936) Where's Sally? (1936) Dusty Ermine (1936) Jack of All Trades (1936) Return of a Stranger (1937) Doctor Syn (1937) Action for Slander (1937) The Singing Cop (1938) His Lordship Regrets (1938) Climbing High (1938) Thistledown (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) I Killed the Count (1939) Confidential Lady (1939) The Spy in Black (1939) Poison Pen (1939) They Came by Night (1940) Old Mother Riley in Society (1940) Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940) Meet Maxwell Archer (1940) It Happened to One Man (1940)
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Who was Athole Stewart?
British actor (1879-1940)
When was Athole Stewart born?
Athole Stewart was born on 25 June 1879 in Ealing.
When did Athole Stewart die?
Athole Stewart died on 22 October 1940 in Leighton Buzzard.
What was Athole Stewart's occupation?
Athole Stewart was an actor and film actor.
What nationality was Athole Stewart?
Athole Stewart was British.
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