Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger

Nascimento : 1913-05-06, Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Morte : 1993-08-16

História

Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was a British actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame through his appearances in the Gainsborough melodramas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stewart Granger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Stewart Granger
Stewart Granger

Filmes

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
Fine Gold
Two European winemaking families' friendships are destroyed by false accusations after a theft in this melodrama.
Hell Hunters
Martin Hoffmann
A Nazi scientist, wanted as a war criminal, develops a spider serum that turns people into fascist Nazi zombies. A pair of investigators who have devoted their lives to hunting down Nazi war criminals set out to stop him.
A Hazard of Hearts
Old Vulcan
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Himself - Interviewee
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box
O Romance Real de Charles e Diana
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Catherine Oxenberg, a U.S.-born, British-raised professional model, here made her acting debut. Of particular interest was the casting of Dana Wynter as Queen Elizabeth, Stewart Granger as Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland as the Queen Mother, and Ray Milland as a general factotum around the Palace.
Selvagens Cães de Guerra
Sir Edward Matherson
Uma multinacional britânica pretende derrubar um ditador na África central. Então contrata um bando de mercenários em Londres e os envia para resgatar da prisão o democrático líder da oposição, que está gravemente doente. Mas quando a equipe realiza o resgate perfeito, a multinacional consegue fechar um acordo com o ditador e abandona o bando de mercenários que então precisa sair por conta própria da enrascada. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
O Cão do Inferno
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.
Any Second Now
Paul Dennison
A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money. He arranges for her to have an auto accident. However, instead of killing her, the accident only causes her to lose her memory, and the doctors say that it could return at any moment.
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
The Last Safari
Miles Gilchrist
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
The Trygon Factor
Superintendent Cooper Smith
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
Requiem for a Secret Agent
Jimmy Merrill
A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.
Target for Killing
James Vine
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
Folia Sanguinária
David Porter (Vienna segment)
Assassina caçada pela polícia acaba se escondendo na casa de um psiquiatra, que acaba lhe contando três histórias, na tentativa de provar que o crime não compensa. Na primeira, em Viena, na Áustria, um repórter investiga uma organização criminosa que falsifica diamantes. Em Roma, um agente secreto cai nas garras do submundo do crime e quase perde a vida na tentativa de recuperar importantes documentos, que mais tarde descobre serem falsos. Em São Francisco, um detetive particular salva a vida de uma dançarina e suas colegas da boate Flamingo. Todas elas sabem a identidade do homem que quer matar o presidente do Brasil durante o Carnaval no Rio de Janeiro.
O Grito de Guerra dos Comanches
Old Surehand
Old Surehand chega a Mason City seguindo uma nova pista sobre o assassino do irmão, um bandido conhecido como “O General”, que procura há três anos. No entanto, Old Surehand vê-se envolvido num conflito latente entre os colonos e os índios Comanches em estado de guerra e de vingança devido ao assassinato do filho do Chefe. Na companhia do seu fiel amigo Old Wabble, que os as autoridades julgam ser o assassino do irmão de Surehand, e com a ajuda do seu amigo e irmão de sangue de sangue Winnetou, o afável Chefe dos Apaches, Surehand tudo fará para impedir a guerra…
Rampage at Apache Wells
Old Surehand
'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at Shelly Lake. So The Oilprince exchanges the scout of the settlers by one of his minions to give them another route. But soon The Oilprince has to recognize that he has not counted on Winnetou, the righteous leader of the Apaches, and his blood brother Old Surehand.
Red Dragon
Michael Scott
An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
The Crooked Road
Duke Of Orgagna
An investigative reporter travels to a small European country with the hope of exposing its dictator's family secrets.
O Grande Atirador
Old Surehand
Bandidos disfarçados de índios atacam os colonos semeando o terror e a sede de vingança nos colonos, mas Winnetou e Old Surehand estão determinados a desmascarar os bandidos e manter a paz entre os colonos e os índios, enquanto protegem a bela Annie Dillman que transporta uma fortuna que tem de entregar ao pai no Arizona.
A Invasão Secreta
Maj. Richard Mace
Os nazistas prendem um general italiano que estava planejando mudar de lado e levar o seu exército para o lado dos Aliados. O QG dos Aliados envia um pequeno grupo de soldados, um pouco desajustados, para resgatar o general da prisão e continuar com seus planos. e 14.
The Shortest Day
Avvocato (uncredited)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Commando
Captain Le Blanc
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Sodoma e Gomorra
Lot
Baseado na bíblica história de Sodoma e Gomorra, cidades dominadas pelas tentações e pelo pecado, o filme conta a saga de Lot (Stewart Granger). Lot, homem justo e sobrinho de Abraão, retira o povo hebreu do deserto e conduz a duas cidades, Sodoma e Gomorra. Lá o povo hebreu, com excessão de Lot, é, aos poucos, dominados pelos prazeres e pelo pecado, corrompendo a carne e o espírito. Tais corrupções despertarão a ira de Deus, e Lot, como líder do povo, irá tentar salvar seu povo do maior castigo divino sobre a terra.
O Espadachim de Siena
Thomas Stanswood
Na Toscana do século XVI, o espadachim Thomas Stanswood é contratado pelo duque espanhol Don Carlos para proteger sua noiva, uma mulher fria e arrogante. Stanswood acaba descobrindo que o pai dela foi assassinado por Don Carlos quando ele ainda almejava o controle da cidade.
The Secret Partner
John Brent
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Fúria no Alaska
George Pratt
Faroeste que mistura comédia e aventura, cuja ação ambientada durante a corrida do ouro no Alasca, conta a história dos amigos Sam (Wayne) e George (Stewart Granger) se aventurando no garimpo. George pede a Sam que busque sua namorada Jennie em Seattle. Mas quando Sam descobre que ela casou-se com outro, ele arquiteta um plano para levar um novo amor para George e convida uma bela dançarina (Capucine) para ser a substituta de Jennie.
The Whole Truth
Max Poulton
On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their affair to Carol. Later, at a party at Max's villa, investigator Carliss arrives with news that Gina has been killed and that Max is a murderer suspect.
O Rugido da Morte
Harry Black
Durante uma caçada a um feroz tigre que aterroriza um vilarejo indiano, o ex-militar Harry Black reencontra sua ex-mulher Chris e o atual marido, Desmond, que conheceu Black em um campo de concentração na Segunda Guerra.
A Arma de um Bravo
Tom Early
Pistoleiro quer a redenção e volta para sua cidade depois de alguns anos longe de casa. Sua esposa morreu e seu filho de 17 anos o culpa por essa perda. Com sua fazenda a beira falência, Tom Early (Stewart Granger) tenta reerguer sua vida e reconquistar a confiança de seu filho, com a ajuda de um novo amor, a bela Jo (Rhonda Fleming). Mas seu passado o condena e inescrupuloso e poderoso empresário local tenta tomar seu rancho. Tom sabe que terá que usar seus recursos de pistoleiro para superar essa crise.
Dois Amores e uma Cabana
Sir Philip Ashlow
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
A Encruzilhada dos Destinos
Col. Rodney Savage
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
A Última Caçada
Sandy McKenzie
A Última Caçada(The Last Hunt). Sandy McKenzie (Stewart Granger), um famoso caçador de búfalos, cansado da profissão, tenta investir por volta de 1880 no negócio de gado mas não alcança muito sucesso. Ele encontra o temível pistoleiro Charlie Gilson (Robert Taylor), que conhece a reputação de Sandy e o convence a partir para mais uma caçada de búfalos. Gilson só pensa no dinheiro e não se importa com quem tem que matar para conseguir, homem ou animal.
Footsteps in the Fog
Stephen Lowry
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
O Tesouro de Barba Rubra
Jeremy Fox
John Mohune, um menino de dez anos, é deixado pela mãe moribunda aos cuidados do mulherengo Jeremy Fox, chefe de um bando de contrabandistas. Juntos, eles vivem várias aventuras na caça a um tesouro.
Tentação Verde
Rian X. Mitchell
Rian X. Mitchell é um explorador inglês empenhado em enriquecer encontrando esmeraldas nas montanhas da Colômbia. Em uma de suas escavações, ele encontra berílio (mineral de pouco valor mas que costuma indicar a presença de esmeraldas) e depois chega a uma antiga mina espanhola. Mas ao sair do local ele é roubado e ferido por bandoleiros. Com a ajuda de um padre, que o leva a uma fazenda de café de propriedade de um casal de irmãos, ele se recupera.
O Belo Brummel
Beau Brummell
Lavishly told story of George Bryan Brummel, a commoner born in the era of Napoleon who uses wit, brilliance and sartorial flair to align himself with the future King George IV. Lush settings in authentic locations and Taylor in Regency …
Todos os Irmãos Eram Valentes
Mark Shore
Sailor Joel Shore (Robert Taylor) vai à procura de seu irmão caçador de baleias, Mark (Stewart Granger), que está perdido durante uma missão desastrosa no mar. Joel e sua esposa Priscilla (Ann Blyth), acabam encontrando Mark em uma ilha tropical, mas, para sua surpresa, o infortúnio e a tragédia o transformaram em um homem perturbado e desesperado. Em pouco tempo, Mark começa a buscar um relacionamento romântico com Priscila, levando a uma rivalidade feroz e um motim violento.
A Rainha Virgem
Thomas Seymour
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Salomé
Commander Claudius
No reinado do imperador Tibério, o profeta galileu João Batista prega contra o rei Herodes e a rainha Herodíades. Esta última quer João morto, mas Herodes teme prejudicá-lo devido a uma profecia. Então entra em cena a bela princesa Salomé, a enteada há muito ausente de Herodes. Herodias vê o desejo crescente do rei por Salomé como seu meio de dobrar o rei à sua vontade. Mas Salomé e seu amante Cláudio estão (ao contrário das Escrituras) se aproximando da conversão à nova religião. E a famosa dança climática acabou tendo implicações inesperadas ...
O Prisioneiro de Zenda
Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
Scaramouche
Andre Moreau
Na França pré-revolucionária, a rainha Maria Antonieta pede a seu primo Noel, marquês de Maynes, que descubra a identidade de Marcus Brutus, um panfleteiro que ataca com seus folhetos a decadente aristocracia. Logo se descobre que ele é Philippe de Valmorin, grande amigo do aventureiro André Moreau. Este tenta ajudá-lo a fugir mas não consegue impedir que Philippe seja morto pelo marquês em um duelo de floretes. Moreau nada pudera fazer, pois o marquês era tido então como o melhor espadachim da França. Só lhe resta fugir, se escondendo em uma companhia teatral, sob a máscara ridícula do cômico Scaramouche. Mas Moreau jurou vingança e se dedica a aperfeiçoar sua esgrima a fim de desafiar o marquês para um duelo mortal.
Terras do Norte
Jules Vincent
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
The Light Touch
Sam Conride
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
Três Grandes Amigos
Pvt. Archibald Ackroyd
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
As Minas do Rei Salomão
Allan Quartermain
Allan Quatermain é um caçador de tesouros que é convencido por Jesse Huston a ajudá-la a procurar o pai.
Adam and Evelyne
Adam Black
The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes the girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.
Woman Hater
Lord Terence Datchett
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Count Philip Konigsmark
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Blanche Fury
Philip Thorn
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
Captain Boycott
Hugh Davin
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
The Magic Bow
Nicolo Paganini
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Caravan
Richard Darrell
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
César e Cleópatra
Apollodorus
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Waterloo Road
Ted Purvis
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Nino
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
Love Story
Kit Firth
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.
Fanny by Gaslight
Harry Somerford
Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
The Lamp Still Burns
Laurence Rains
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
O Homem de Cinzento
Swinton Rokeby / Peter Rokeby
Clarissa se casa com o marquês de Rohan, que a trata com cruel indiferença, porém sua amiga Hesther a apresenta a outro patife, o atrevido e imoral Rokeby.
Thursday's Child
David Penley
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
Secret Mission
Sub-Lieutenant Jackson
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
Comboio
Sutton
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
So This Is London
Laurence
American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.
Under Secret Orders
Bit part (uncredited)
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.
I Spy
Extra
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
Over the Garden Wall
An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic consequences...
Give Her a Ring
A telephonist falls for her employer.
A Southern Maid
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
A Rainha Imortal
Regiment Soldier
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
The Song You Gave Me
Waiter
Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
Infected Paradise
Bobby Stewart
A group of holiday makers set out on an escape from the monotony of their daily routines, only to have their lives turned upside down when the peaceful escape they had planned turns into a fight for their lives.