Henry Stuart (actor)

Henry Stuart (born February 1, 1885 as Court Henry Eduard Hess in Cairo , Egypt , † after 1942) was a British-Swiss actor , film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

The son of a British colonial official came to England shortly before the turn of the century and lived temporarily in Paris . He attended the Munich Art Academy with the intention of becoming a painter. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War he was in Vienna , where he made his first contact with film people.

He spent the war in England, then returned to Germany and began his career as a silent film actor here in 1922. As a rule, he personified perfect gentlemen and noble lovers. In the classic Die joudlose Gasse he played the bank clerk Egon Stirner, for whose favor his fiancée, the destitute Maria Lechner ( Asta Nielsen ), murdered a supposed competitor.

In 1928 he went to India and directed the film The Ring of the Bajadere there . In the sound film, Stuart remained largely unemployed. He became a Swiss citizen and in 1941 produced a sound film version of Der Ring der Bajadere under the title Krishna. Adventure in the Indian jungle in German cinemas. He played in Berlin , especially at the English Theater of German Actors, and worked for the radio and as a manuscript and title translator.

Filmography (selection)

Unless otherwise stated, as an actor:

1923: A glass of water 1925: The wig 1925: The joyless alley 1925: The adventure of Sybille Brant 1926: The two and the lady 1926: The man in the fire 1926: Derby. An excerpt from the world of trotting 1926: The Road to Oblivion 1926: The sunken fleet 1927: The girl without a home 1927: In camera 1927: The beggar from Cologne Cathedral 1927: love affair

1927: The woman with the world record 1927: When people are ripe for love 1928: give me life 1928: The secret power 1929: Scandal in Baden-Baden 1929: The Ring of the Bajadere (also director) 1929: Schönbrunn's favorite 1930: The right to love 1938: The Power of Life (screenplay) 1941: Krishna. Adventure in the Indian jungle (only direction, screenplay) 1943: Münchhausen 1943: Germanin - The story of a colonial act

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

• Henry Stuart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Henry Stuart at filmportal.de
• Biography with photo on cyranos.ch
• Images by Henry Stuart In: Virtual History