Athole Chalmers Stewart (25 June 1879 – 18 October 1940) was a British stage and latterly
film actor
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, often in authoritarian or aristocratic roles.
On stage, he played in the original production of
Noël Coward
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's ''
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'' at the
Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1925. On film, he played
Dr. Watson
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Raymond Massey
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Holmes
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in ''
The Speckled Band'', in 1931.
Athole is buried in the Churchyard of
St Mary the Virgin, Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire alongside his wife Ellen Frances Stewart OBE, daughter of the late general William Sparkes Hatch.
Selected filmography
Athole appeared in the following films:
* ''
To What Red Hell'' (1929)
* ''
Canaries Sometimes Sing'' (1930)
* ''
The Speckled Band'' (1931)
* ''
The Faithful Heart'' (1932)
* ''
Frail Women'' (1932)
* ''
The Constant Nymph'' (1933)
* ''
Loyalties'' (1933)
* ''
The Four Masked Men'' (1934)
* ''
The Path of Glory
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A " quota ...
'' (1934)
* ''
The Clairvoyant'' (1935)
* ''
While Parents Sleep'' (1935)
* ''
The Amateur Gentleman'' (1936)
* ''
The Tenth Man'' (1936)
* ''
Where's Sally?'' (1936)
* ''
Dusty Ermine'' (1936)
* ''
Jack of All Trades'' (1936)
* ''
Return of a Stranger'' (1937)
* ''
Doctor Syn
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'' (1937)
* ''
Action for Slander
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'' (1937)
* ''
The Singing Cop'' (1938)
* ''
His Lordship Regrets'' (1938)
* ''
Climbing High'' (1938)
* ''
Thistledown'' (1938)
* ''
The Four Just Men'' (1939)
* ''
I Killed the Count'' (1939)
* ''
Confidential Lady'' (1939)
* ''
The Spy in Black
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'' (1939)
* ''
Poison Pen'' (1939)
* ''
They Came by Night'' (1940)
* ''
Old Mother Riley in Society'' (1940)
* ''
Tilly of Bloomsbury'' (1940)
* ''
Meet Maxwell Archer'' (1940)
* ''
It Happened to One Man'' (1940)
References
External links
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1879 births
1940 deaths
British male stage actors
British male film actors
20th-century British male actors
Actors from the London Borough of Ealing
People from Ealing
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