Henry Stuart
Born	1 February 1885 Cairo, Egypt
Died	26 January 1948 Zollikon, Switzerland
Other names	Court Eduard Henry Hess
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1923-1943 (film)

Henry Stuart (1 February 1885 – 26 January 1948) was a Swiss film actor known for his work in Germany. Stuart was born in Cairo as son of a Swiss doctor, 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). ^[1] 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).

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)

References

Bibliography

• Isenberg, Noah William: Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. Columbia University Press, 2009.
• Treuner, Hermann: Filmkünstler: Wir über uns selbst. Sibyllen-Verlag, 1928 ( online).

External links

• "Henry Stuart". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
• Henry Stuart at IMDb

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