Stewart Granger

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Stewart Granger (1970)
Granger at a cocktail party in 1946

Stewart Granger (born May 6, 1913 as James Lablache Stewart in London , † August 16, 1993 in Santa Monica , California ) was a British- American actor . In the 1950s he was a sought-after Hollywood actor. One of his best-known roles in German-speaking countries was that of Old Surehand in various Winnetou films.

Life

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Private

ancestry

Born James Lablache Stewart on Old Brompton Road , Kensington , West London, he was the only son of Major James Stewart, OBE and his wife Frederica Eliza (née Lablache). Granger was educated at Epsom College and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art . He was the great-great-grandson of the opera singer Luigi Lablache and the grandson of the actor Luigi Lablache.

Spouse and children

He was married three times:

All marriages ended in divorce.

Beginnings as an actor

James Lablache Stewart began his film career while studying medicine in 1933 as an extra. He was advised to change his name so as not to be confused with American actor James Stewart . Granger was his Scottish grandmother's maiden name. Offscreen friends and colleagues called him Jimmy for the rest of his life, but to the public he became Stewart Granger.

After some success on stage and in touring theater, he rose to become one of the most popular romantic heroes of the decade in 1943 alongside James Mason , Margaret Lockwood and Phyllis Calvert thanks to the overwhelming financial success of The Man in Gray . The Man in Gray depicted James Mason as a depraved nobleman who beats his mistress (Margaret Lockwood) to death with a riding crop after seducing and morally corrupting her. Granger then shot several successful costume dramas alongside Phyllis Calvert, such as Fanny By Gaslight from 1944 and Madonna of the Seven Moons from 1945, the greatest financial success of all British films to date. Granger was also occasionally used in biographies, such as Paganini in The Magic Bow and the noble adventurer Koengismarck in the romantic drama Saraband for Dead Lovers .

Hollywood

In 1949 he went to Hollywood with his second wife Jean Simmons with a contract with MGM , where he quickly rose to become a popular actor in adventure and so-called coat-and-sword films, for example in 1951 when he met George Sanders and the young in Tunis Pier Angeli , alongside Deborah Kerr in the film King Solomon's Diamonds , in Scaramouche, the gallant Marquis , In the Shadow of the Crown , The Heir apparent and in Beau Brummel , who starred him alongside Elizabeth Taylor . In 1955, directed by Fritz Lang , he appeared again in the magnificently equipped adventure film Das Schloß im Schatten (original title: Moonfleet) , as in Scaramouche, albeit in a completely different subject from the 18th century. Other well-known works include the western The Last Hunt (1956), which shows him alongside Robert Taylor as a bison hunter, and the lively western comedy Land of a Thousand Adventures (1960, with John Wayne ).

Comeback and death

Granger tried - like many former old stars after him - to make a comeback in the film business in Europe from the early 1960s. He achieved an increase in his degree of fame in Germany through leading roles in films in the Winnetour series , in which he played Old Surehand in Unter Vultures , Der Ölprinz and Old Surehand . He also played Superintendent Cooper-Smith in the Edgar Wallace film The Secret of the White Nun .

Between 1970 and 1989 Granger was mainly engaged in television series, such as in 1970/71 in the series The People of the Shiloh Ranch . Shortly after the movie The Wild Geese Come , which once again brought up a large number of starring stars, including Richard Burton , Hardy Krüger and Roger Moore , he ended his career in cinema.

As two Bambi awards show, Granger had been firmly established as a popular “star” in Germany since the early 1950s. Granger was considered a difficult character among his fellow actors, he was often described as a difficult person to get along with.

He had his last appearance on German television in 1987 in the ZDF series Das Erbe der Guldenburgs .

In 1956, Granger became a citizen of the United States.

Stewart Granger died of prostate cancer on August 16, 1993 in Santa Monica , California , at the age of 80 .

Others

Granger held an amateur radio license and his callsign was N6KGB.

Awards

  • 1949: Honored with the Bambi
  • 1950: Honored with the Bambi
  • 1956: Honored with the David di Donatello for Between Hate and Love

Filmography (selection)

cinemamovies

watch TV

  • 1969: In a moment ( Any Second Now, TV movie)
  • 1970–1971: The People at Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian, TV series)
  • 1971: The 2 (The Persuaders !, TV series)
  • 1972: The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Movie made for TV)
  • 1973: VIP Swing (TV series)
  • 1975: Churning ( TV show )
  • 1982: The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana ( TV movie)
  • 1983: The Fall Guy ( The Fall Guy, television series)
  • 1983–1987 Hotel ( hotel, TV series)
  • 1985: Murder is Her Hobby ( Murder, She Wrote, TV series)
  • 1985: Love Boat ( The Love Boat , TV series)
  • 1986: In the fire of emotions ( Crossings, television multipart)
  • 1987: The Legacy of the Guldenburgs (TV series)
  • 1987: A Hazard of Hearts ( A Hazard of Hearts, TV movie)
  • 1989: LA conspiracy ( Chameleons, TV movie)
  • 1991: Pros versus crooks ( Pros and Cons, TV series)

literature

  • Stewart Granger: Sparks fly upward. Wm Collins & Sons & Co, London 1981, ISBN 0-24-611403-7 (autobiography 1st part, until 1960; no more published).
  • Christos Tses: Jimmy: Stewart Granger, a life in widescreen format. s. l., Gramlex, 1997, ISBN 3-00-001580-9 .
  • Don Shiach: Stewart Granger: the last of the swashbucklers. Aurum Press 2005, ISBN 1-84513-044-8 .
  • Don Shiach: Stewart Granger - An Acting Life . Reinhard Weber Verlag, Landshut 2007, ISBN 978-3980298780 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Granger, Stewart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart, James Lablache (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1993
Place of death Santa Monica , California