Hugh Stewart
Television Producer, Film director
1910 – 2011
Who was Hugh Stewart?
Hugh St Clair Stewart MBE was a British film editor and producer whose notable contributions included filming Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following its liberation in April 1945.
Born in Falmouth, England, Stewart was educated first at Clayesmore School and then at St John's College at Cambridge where was taught and influenced by F. R. Leavis. He entered the film industry in the early 1930s. He trained as a film editor at Gaumont-British, initially cutting together out-takes from Marry Me and working as assembly cutter on The Constant Nymph that same year. His first film as editor was Forbidden Territory. Among the films he cut were Evergreen, Alfred Hitchcock's original version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dark Journey, Action for Slander, South Riding, St. Martin's Lane, and The Spy in Black.
During World War II, Stewart was commissioned into the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1940 and in 1942 led No. 2 AFPU during the Allied landings in Tunisia. The following year he edited film footage from the fighting into the documentary Desert Victory. In 1944 he co-directed Tunisian Victory with Frank Capra and John Houston, although much of that film was shot in the United States. Stewart went on to lead No. 5 AFPU, covering the D-Day landings, the Battle for Caen and the Rhine Crossing.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1910
Falmouth - Also known as
- H.St.C.Stewart
- Hugh St Clair Stewart
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Clayesmore School
- St John's College, Cambridge
- Died
- May 31, 2011
Denham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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