Biografie

Has made more than 60 movies and once grumbled that he couldn't stand any of them.

His great grandfather was Italian opera singer Luigi LaBlache, who emigrated to England and became Queen Victoria's singing master.

Adopted his professional name in order not to be confused with American actor James Stewart.

Stewart proposed to Jean Simmons after seeing her as Kanchi in Die schwarze Narzisse (1947).

Took fencing very seriously for his dashing roles in Der Gefangene von Zenda (1952) and Scaramouche - Der Mann mit der Maske (1952). He was so earnest in mastering the skill of fencing that he took lessons from a retired Olympic fencing champion. During his preparation for Scaramouche - Der Mann mit der Maske (1952), his fencing lessons and practice made him wear out a dozen or so pairs of fencing shoes. He adorned the cover of Life Magazine when the film was released and the title was "Stewart Granger: Swashbuckler". Perhaps the only actor superior to him in fencing at that time was Basil Rathbone.

The cinema world is not easy. it's full of envy from little people - heads of studios, for example, who hate people for their attractiveness.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm still an old leading man.

I was a good costume actor, but I shortened my career because I made the wrong choices.

I've never done a film I'm proud of.

[on Joan Collins, 1984] She's common, she can't act - yet she's the hottest female property around these days. If that doesn't tell you something about the state of our industry today, what does?