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Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 – August 16, 1993), born James
Lablache Stewart, was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and
romantic leading roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular
leading man in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
He was born in London, and educated at Epsom College. The grandson of the actor
Luigi Lablache, he was obliged to change his name in order to avoid being confused
with the famous American actor James Stewart. As Granger reported in an interview
once, his off-screen friends called him "Jimmy".
 Acting
career
In 1933, he made his film debut as an extra. His first starring role was in the
Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a film that helped
to make him a huge star in Britain. In the early 1950s, he moved to Hollywood and
starred in a number of swashbucklers and other adventure films for which his
theatrical voice, stature (6'3" 191 cm) and dignified profile made him a natural,
such as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Scaramouche (1952) and the 1952 remake of The
Prisoner of Zenda, but he was just as dashing in comedies, as demonstrated by his
performance in North To Alaska with John Wayne.
In Germany, Granger acted in the role of Old Surehand in three western movies
adapted from novels by German author Karl May, with French actor Pierre Brice
(playing the fictional Indian chief Winnetou), in Unter Geiern (Frontier Hellcat)
(1964), Der Ölprinz (Rampage at Apache Wells) (1965) and Old Surehand (Flaming
Frontier) (1965).
He was united with Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, also a Karl May movie hero, in Gern
hab' ich die Frauen gekillt (Killer's Carnival) (1966). In the German Edgar Wallace
movie series of the 1960s, he was seen in The Trygon Factor (1966). Towards the end
of his career, Granger even starred in a German soap-opera called Das Erbe der
Guldenburgs (The Guldenburg Heritage) (1987).
Personal
life
He was married three times:
Elspeth March (1938–1948); (two children, Jamie and Lindsay)
Jean Simmons (1950–1960), (with whom he had starred in Adam and Evelyne and
Footsteps in the Fog); (one child)
Caroline LeCerf (1964–1969); (one daughter Samantha)
In 1956, Granger became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
He died in Santa Monica, California from prostate cancer at the age of 80.
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