Hugh Stewart

Hugh St Clair Stewart MBE (14 December 1910 – 31 May 2011) was a British film editor and producer. He filmed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following its liberation in April 1945 and has been called "one of the most significant producers of British comedy films in the twentieth century."

Film editor

Born in Falmouth, England, Stewart was educated first at Clayesmore School and then at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was taught and influenced by F.R. Leavis. He entered the film industry in the early 1930s. He trained as a film editor at Gaumont-British, initially cutting together out-takes from Marry Me (1932) and working as assembly cutter on The Constant Nymph that same year. His first film as editor was Forbidden Territory (1934). Among the films he cut were Evergreen (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's original version of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Dark Journey (1937), Action for Slander (1937), South Riding (1938), St. Martin's Lane (1938), and The Spy in Black (1939). and the comedy duo of Morecambe and Wise.

The Intelligence Men The Early Bird 1966 That Riviera Touch 1967 The Magnificent Two 1980 High Rise Donkey