Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 06, 1913
Deathday: August 16, 1993
Popularity:
1968-01-01
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Popularity:
1960-11-07
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
Popularity:
2000-08-01
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Popularity:
1945-12-11
Overview: The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-11
Popularity:
1978-06-28
Overview: A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
Popularity:
1964-12-08
Overview: Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-08
Popularity:
1965-12-14
Overview: Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-14
Popularity:
1962-10-19
Overview: A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-19
Popularity:
1952-05-08
Overview: In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-08
Popularity:
1953-03-24
Overview: In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-24
Popularity:
1952-11-04
Overview: A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-04
Popularity:
1964-09-16
Overview: During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-16
Popularity:
1943-08-06
Overview: After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-06
Popularity:
1955-06-24
Overview: Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-24
Popularity:
1962-10-04
Overview: Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-04
Popularity:
1954-11-16
Overview: Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
Popularity:
1950-11-09
Overview: Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-09
Popularity:
1953-05-29
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
Popularity:
1955-09-14
Overview: A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
Popularity:
1952-01-28
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-28
Popularity:
1945-02-05
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-05
Popularity:
1987-12-27
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-27
Popularity:
1948-10-04
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
Popularity:
1954-12-29
Overview: In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-29
Popularity:
1965-08-25
Overview: '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.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-25
Popularity:
1945-01-22
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
Popularity:
1956-05-01
Overview: Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
Popularity:
1953-11-13
Overview: In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-13
Popularity:
1961-05-01
Overview: A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
Popularity:
1966-12-16
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-16
Popularity:
1956-04-30
Overview: A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-30
Popularity:
1944-05-08
Overview: Returning to 1870s 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-08
Popularity:
1948-02-19
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-19
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1949-05-31
Overview: A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-31
Popularity:
1957-07-19
Overview: An ex-gunslinger shunned by townsfolk is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-19
Popularity:
1958-07-22
Overview: In the mysterious jungle of India, Harry Black, a skilled hunter, hunts a dangerous tiger which attacked. This tiger has already claimed hundreds of victims. While recovering from his wounds will review the most important moments of his life.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-22
Popularity:
1958-07-29
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-29
Popularity:
1957-05-03
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-03
Popularity:
1988-02-15
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-15
Popularity:
1951-04-01
Overview: Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
Popularity:
1966-09-29
Overview: A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-29
Popularity:
1946-09-20
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
Popularity:
1934-03-01
Overview: A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
Popularity:
1965-02-03
Overview: An investigative reporter travels to a small European country with the hope of exposing its dictator's family secrets.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-03
Popularity:
1965-07-16
Overview: An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-07-16
Popularity:
1982-09-20
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-20
Popularity:
1951-12-06
Overview: An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-06
Popularity:
1967-11-01
Overview: A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
Popularity:
1947-08-26
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-26
Popularity:
1972-02-12
Overview: Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-12
Popularity:
1944-11-20
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-20
Popularity:
1943-11-29
Overview: A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-29
Popularity:
1966-10-15
Overview: A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-15
Popularity:
1946-06-03
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-03
Popularity:
1966-07-28
Overview: A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-07-28
Popularity:
1962-11-14
Overview: 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.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-14
Popularity:
1933-01-01
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
Popularity:
1995-11-16
Overview: The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-16
Popularity:
1939-03-01
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
Popularity:
1987-06-08
Overview: A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-08
Popularity:
1989-07-20
Overview: Two European winemaking families' friendships are destroyed by false accusations after a theft in this melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-20
Popularity:
1985-01-01
Overview: 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
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
Popularity:
1943-03-24
Overview: A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-24
Popularity:
1940-09-28
Overview: A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-28
Popularity:
1948-10-13
Overview: A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-13
Popularity:
1942-10-05
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-05
Popularity:
1934-08-26
Overview: Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-26
Popularity:
1987-12-25
Overview: Alasdair Gray adapts the Robert Louis Stevenson story of the same name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-25
Popularity:
1963-02-14
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
Popularity:
1934-02-09
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-09
Popularity:
1969-02-11
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-11
Popularity:
1937-12-06
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-06
Popularity:
1934-06-20
Overview: 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...
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-20
Popularity:
1934-06-11
Overview: A telephonist falls for her employer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-11
Popularity:
1989-12-20
Overview: Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he was a costumed superhero in his spare time, half of a duo calling itself "Captain Chameleon and the Paraclete of Justice." Now Shelley must find out exactly who murdered her uncle, with the help of her uncle's mysterious and handsome partner in fighting crime.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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