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STEWART GRANGER
Stewart Granger was an Anglo- American film actor of Scottish and Italian descent, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the 1960s.
His first starring film 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 1949 MGM was looking for someone to play Rider Haggard's hero Allan Quatermain in a film version of King Solomon's Mines. He was offered a seven-year contract by MGM. Following two less successful assignments, Soldiers Three and The Light Touch, in 1952, he starred in Scaramouche in the role of Andre Moreau, the bastard son of a French nobleman. Soon after this came the remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), for which his theatrical voice, stature (6'3"; 191 cm) and dignified profile made him a natural.
In Moonfleet (1955), Granger was cast as an adventurer, Jeremy Fox, in the Dorset of 1757, a man who rules a gang of cut-throat smugglers with an iron fist until he is softened by a 10-year-old boy who worships him and who believes only the best of him.
Bhowani Junction (1956), was adapted from a John Masters novel about colonial India on the verge of obtaining independence.
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