Ewan Stewart is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 film, television and stage actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

.

Life and career

Stewart was born Andrew Ewan Stewart in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, and is the son of the late Scottish entertainer Andy Stewart

Andy Stewart (musician)

Andrew "Andy" Stewart MBE was a Scottish singer and entertainer.-Career:The use of tartan patriotism and stereotypical Scottish humour goes back to Sir Harry Lauder and music hall songs. In the 1960s this strand was continued by the entertainer Andy Stewart.He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in...

. His mother Sheila is still alive and lives in Arbroath

Arbroath

Arbroath or Aberbrothock is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22,785...

, Scotland. Stewart was educated at Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

's Clifton Hall School

Clifton Hall School

Clifton Hall School is an independent nursery, primary and secondary school for children aged 3 to 18 years old. It is a small co-educational day school with 270 pupils.- The school :...

 and Merchiston Castle School

Merchiston Castle School

Merchiston Castle School is an independent school for boys in the village of Colinton in Edinburgh, Scotland. It has about 480 pupils and is open to boys between the ages of 8 and 18 as either boarders or day pupils; day pupils make up 35% of the school....

 from 1966-1974. He left Scotland to move to London in 1975 and started working in theatres as well as studying drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

.

Stewart's first television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 appearance was in an advertisement

Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...

 for Scottish "Bluebell" matches. His first major TV appearance was in 1979 in the TV remake of All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky...

, with Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas (actor)

Richard Earl Thomas is an American actor, best known for his role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons.- Early life :Thomas was born Richard Earl Thomas in New York,...

 and Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...

.

Stewart is perhaps best known for playing First Officer Murdoch in Titanic

Titanic (1997 film)

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...

(1997). In 2005, Stewart was one of many European actors considered for the vacant role of James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

 for the 007

James Bond (film series)

The James Bond film series is a British series of motion pictures based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond , who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. Earlier films were based on Fleming's novels and short stories, followed later by films with original storylines...

series. In 2008, Stewart starred in the film Ecstasy based on The Undefeated from Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. His work is characterised by raw Scottish dialect, and brutal depiction of the realities of Edinburgh life...

's best-selling novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance is a collection of three novellas by Irvine Welsh.-Lorraine Goes To Livingston:After suffering a stroke, Rebecca Navarro, a best-selling romance novelist, discovers the truth about her corrupt, pornography-loving husband...

. Stewart was the voice actor and motion caption actor for Shen in the video game Heavenly Sword.

Stewart is married and lives in London with his wife, English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actress Clare Byam-Shaw, and his two children, Thomas and Eleanor.

Film

• That Summer
  That Summer
  That Summer is Sarah Dessen's first novel, published in 1996. The movie How to Deal is based on this novel as well as another one of Dessen's novels, Someone Like You....
  
  (1979) – Stu
• Rain on the Roof
  Rain on the Roof
  Rain on the Roof is a television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast by ITV on 26 October 1980.It is the second in a loosely-connected trilogy of plays exploring language and betrayal produced for London Weekend Television by the independent company Potter and producer Kenith Trodd established after...
  
  (1980) – Billy
• Remembrance
  Remembrance
  Remembrance is the act of remembering, the ability to remember or a memorial. It may refer to:-Events:*:Category:Remembrance days**Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, a commemorative day observed by Argentina...
  
  (1982) – Sean
• Who Dares Wins
  Who Dares Wins (film)
  Who Dares Wins is a 1982 British film starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark and Edward Woodward, directed by Ian Sharp. The title is the motto of the elite Special Air Service ....
  
  (1982) – Terrorist (Kevin)
• Fluchpunkt Berlin (1983) – Jack
• Good and Bad at Games
  Good and Bad at Games
  Good and Bad at Games is a UK Television drama that was one of the first programmes broadcast on Channel 4 Television in 1983. The screenplay was written by William Boyd and the lead roles of Cox, Mount and Niles were played by Anton Lesser, Dominic Jephcott and Martyn Stanbridge. A young Rupert...
  
  (1983) – Colenso
• Not Quite Jerusalem
  Not Quite Paradise
  Not Quite Paradise is a 1985 drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. It is also known by the alternative title Not Quite Jerusalem.-External links:...
  
  (1984) – Angus Ross (a kindly ex-British soldier tormented by his past)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 romantic crime drama written and directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, and Alan Howard in the titular roles...
  
  (1988) – Henchman (Harris) Link 2
• Kafka (1991) – The Castle Attendant Link 2
• Rob Roy
  Rob Roy (film)
  Rob Roy is a 1995 historical drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Liam Neeson stars as Robert Roy MacGregor, an 18th century Scottish historical figure who battles with feudal landowners in the Scottish Highlands. Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, and Jason Flemyng also star...
  
  (1994) – Coll (loyal friend of Rob Roy MacGregor) Link 2
• Down Among the Big Boys (1993) – with Billy Connolly as a henchman
• Nervous Energy (1993) – Peter Reid
• Stella Does Tricks
  Stella Does Tricks
  Stella Does Tricks is a 1996 film about a young Glaswegian girl Stella, played by Kelly Macdonald, working as a prostitute in London.The film was the first feature film directed by Coky Giedroyc, inspired her previous work making documentaries about homeless people in Glasgow, Manchester, and...
  
  (1996) – McGuire (a sexually abusive father) Link 2
• Titanic
  Titanic (1997 film)
  Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
  
  (1997) – First Officer William Murdoch
  William McMaster Murdoch
  Lieutenant William "Will" McMaster Murdoch RNR was a Scottish sailor who died on board the , where he was employed by the White Star Line, serving as First Officer...
  
    Link 2
• The Big Brass Ring
  The Big Brass Ring
  The Big Brass Ring is a 1999 drama film, starring William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob, Jefferson Mays, and Miranda Richardson ....
  
  (1999) – Kinzel (an ambitious mercenary and body guard)
• The Closer You Get
  The Closer You Get
  The Closer You Get was Six by Seven's second album. Recorded at The Square Centre in Nottingham with Ric Peet - who'd produced one track on their first album - and John Leckie - who'd worked with many British bands including Radiohead and Simple Minds...
  
  (2000) – Pat (a philandering publican) Link 2 | Link 3
• Little Bird
  Little Bird
  Little Bird may refer to:* MH-6 Little Bird, a military attack helicopter* Little Bird, a character from Sesame Street* "Little Bird", nickname of jazz saxophonist Jimmy Heath* Little Bird , a 2010 album by Australian singer Kasey Chambers...
  
  (2000) – Michael Hall (a middle aged man seeking to adopt)
• Conspiracy (2001) – Dr Georg Leibbrandt
  Georg Leibbrandt
  Georg Leibbrandt was a scholar and politician in the Nazi Party.- Early life :Leibbrandt was born to ethnic German parents in Torosovo , near Odessa, in the Zebrikovo district of the Tsarist Russia...
  
   (Nazi Bureaucrat)
• The Last Great Wilderness
  The Last Great Wilderness
  The Last Great Wilderness is a soundtrack album by the Scottish band The Pastels, containing music from the movie The Last Great Wilderness. The music comprises mostly short and atmospheric pieces, while three of the songs are brief fragments of eerie vocal loops and bells...
  
  (2002) – Magnus
• Young Adam
  Young Adam (film)
  Young Adam is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by David Mackenzie. The screenplay is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi.-Plot:...
  
  (2003) – Daniel Gordon
• One Last Chance (2004) – Fitz's dad
• Dirty War
  Dirty War (film)
  Dirty War is a 2004 BBC, in association with HBO Films, made-for-TV movie thriller/drama about a terrorist attack on Central London, written by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival. It was originally broadcast on BBC One on September 24, 2004, on HBO on January 24, 2005, and the first time on...
  
  (2004) -
• Alpha Male (2006) – Hilary Benz
• Straightheads
  Straightheads
  Straightheads is a 2007 British thriller film which follows a couple who are seeking revenge against a group of men who brutally attacked them. It is written and directed by Dan Reed, who made his directorial début....
  
  (2007) –
• Ecstasy (2008) (pre-production) – Solo
• Valhalla Rising
  Valhalla Rising (film)
  Valhalla Rising is a 2009 English-language film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film takes place in 1000 AD and follows a Norse warrior named One-Eye and a boy named Are as they travel with a band of Christian Crusaders in pursuit of a Crusade. Instead, they find...
  
  (2009) – Eirik (Chieftain of the Crusaders)

Television

• All Quiet on the Western Front
  All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)
  All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky...
  
  (1979) – Detering (a simple German soldier in World War I)
• The Professionals
  The Professionals (TV series)
  The Professionals was a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon...
  
  (Episode Operation Susie) (1981) LWT - Rudiger Molner
• Barriers
  Barriers
  Barriers is a British children's television series, created and written by William Corlett, and made by Tyne Tees Television for ITV between 1981 and 1982....
  
  (1980)
• Ill Fares the Land (1981) BBC TV
• The Camerons (1980)
• Antony and Cleopatra (TV) (1982)
• Distant Scream (1984)
• Paradise Postponed
  Paradise Postponed
  Paradise Postponed is a 1986 TV serial based on a novel by John Mortimer. The plot focused on inquires into why the leftist Reverend Simeon Simcox left the Simcox brewery millions to the loathsome Leslie Titmuss, a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister...
  
  (1986) - Gary Kitson
• Boon (TV series)
  Boon (TV series)
  Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV...
  
  (Episode "The Big Game Hunt") (1986) - Vincent Black
• Only Fools and Horses
  Only Fools and Horses
  Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...
  
  (Episode "In Sickness and in Wealth") (1989) - Dr Robbie Meadows
• The Advocates (STV - Legal Drama) (1989) - Barrister Greg McDowell
• Spender
  Spender
  Spender is a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, written by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. The series was produced by Martin McKeand . The series was broadcast on BBC between 1991 and 1993...
  
  (5 January 1993) Episode "The More Things Change"
• A Mugs Game (1996) BBC TV - Kenny Cowan
• Titanic - Breaking New Ground (1998) - 1st Officer William Murdoch
• Looking After Jo Jo BBC Scotland (1997) - Charlie McCann (a foxy, street wise crime boss)
• Heat of the Sun
  Heat of the Sun
  Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya...
  
  (1998) - John McAlister
• Touch and Go (Telemovie) (1998) - Rob Aldridge
• The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (1999) - Professor Canning
• The Bill
  The Bill
  The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
  
  (Episode: "Treading Water") BBC TV (1999) - Steve Raines
• Nature Boy (Four part series) (2000) - Len
• Rebus (TV) (Episode "The Hanging Garden") (2000) - DI Jack Morton
• Rebus (TV) (Episode " Black and Blue") (2000) - DI Jack Morton
• Silent Witness
  Silent Witness
  Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
  
  (Episode "World Cruise") BBC TV (2001) - DS Chris Moorhouse
• Football (TV) (2001) - Dad
• Real Men
  Real Men
  Real Men is a 1987 comedy/sci-fi film starring James Belushi and John Ritter as the heroes: suave, womanizing CIA agent Nick Pirandello and weak and ineffectual insurance agent Bob Wilson .-Plot:...
  
  (2003) - Alistair Jackson
• The Key (TV) (2003) - Joe
• P.O.W (TV series)
  P.O.W (TV series)
  P.O.W. was a television series consisting of 6 episodes, broadcast on ITV in 2003. The series starred James D'Arcy and Joe Absolom. The drama series is based on true stories, set in Germany in the year 1940 and follows the character of Jim Caddon as he is captured after his plane crashes during a...
  
  (2003) - Corporal John Stevens
• Witchcraze (2003) - Bishop James Carmichael
• Trevor's World of Sport
  Trevor's World of Sport
  Trevor's World of Sport began as a 2003 BBC television sitcom written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. Only one television series was made, and Hamilton felt mistreated by the BBC over the scheduling of the show. The first episode attracted an average of 3.4...
  
  (2003) - Ned Scott
• Dirty War
  Dirty War (film)
  Dirty War is a 2004 BBC, in association with HBO Films, made-for-TV movie thriller/drama about a terrorist attack on Central London, written by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival. It was originally broadcast on BBC One on September 24, 2004, on HBO on January 24, 2005, and the first time on...
  
  (2004) - Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Ives
• Malice Aforethought
  Malice Aforethought
  Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It involves a Devon physician who slowly poisons his domineering wife so that he may be with the woman he loves. It is an early and prominent example of the "inverted detective story",...
  
  (2005) - Inspector
• The Somme (2005) - Rawlinson
• Walter's War (2008) - Sergeant Fuller
• River City
  River City
  River City is a Scottish television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow...
  
  (2008 to present) - Daniel McKee

Other credited television roles

• Dream Baby
• Shadows on our Skin
• Soldiers Talking Cleanly
• MacKenzie
• The Quiet Days of Mrs Stafford
• Green Street Revisited
• A Woman Calling
• The Man From Dene
• Concordes last flight (Narrator)

Theatre

• A Month in the Country (play)
  A Month in the Country (play)
  A Month in the Country is a comedy in five acts by Ivan Turgenev. It was written in France between 1848 and 1850 and was first published in 1855...
  
  (1981) Olivier Theatre - Snobby Price
• Don Juan
  Don Juan
  Don Juan is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630...
  
  (7 April 1981) Cottlesloe Theatre - La Ramee (Don Juan's Servant)
• Flying Blind
  Flying Blind
  Flying Blind is a single-season, 1992-93 American half-hour situation comedy on the Fox TV network, revolving around awkward post-collegian Neil Barash who, by serendipity, meets beautiful libertine Alicia and begins a relationship with her...
  
  (1981) Royal Court Theatre
  Royal Court Theatre
  The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
  
  
• Sergeant Musgraves Dance Major Barbara (1982) Lyttelton Theatre
• In the Blue Cottlesloe Theatre
• As I Lay Dying (1985) Cottlesloe Theatre - Vardarmin
• The Garden of England (14 Nov 1985) Cottlesloe Theatre
• Thyestes
  Thyestes
  In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, King of Olympia, and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. Thyestes and his twin brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus, in their desire for the throne of Olympia...
  
  (June 1994) Manchester Green Room, and Royal Court Theatre - As Thyestes
• The Murderers (1985) Cottlesloe Theatre - Tommy
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
  
  - Scottish Opera
  Scottish Opera
  Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland, and one of the five national performing arts companies funded by the Scottish Government...
  
  
• The Orphans
  The Orphans
  The Orphans is the fifth album by Kristeen Young. Its tracks "Kill The Father" and "London Cry" were released as singles in the UK by Sanctuary/Attack.-Track listing:#"Kill The Father" – 4:09#"London Cry" – 4:36#"Mixed Kids" – 4:03...
  
  (1986) Comedy
• Lucy's Play (1986) Traverse Theatre
  Traverse Theatre
  The Traverse Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1963.The Traverse Theatre commissions and develops new plays or adaptations from contemporary playwrights. It also presents a large number of productions from visiting companies from across the UK. These include new plays,...
  
   Edinburgh
• Racing Demon (play)
  Racing Demon (play)
  Racing Demon is a 1990 play by English playwright David Hare. Part of a trio of plays about British institutions, it focuses on the Church of England, and tackles issues such as gay ordination, and the role of evangelism in inner-city communities...
  
  (1990) By Sir David Hare
  David Hare (dramatist)
  Sir David Hare is an English playwright and theatre and film director.-Early life:Hare was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, the son of Agnes and Clifford Hare, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing, an independent school in West Sussex, and at Jesus College, Cambridge...
  
    Link 2
• Road Royal Court Theatre
• Live Like Pigs (By John Arden) Royal Court Theatre
• Sacred Heart (play) (27 March 1999 - 24 April 1999) Royal Court (New Ambassadors Theatre
  New Ambassadors Theatre
  The Ambassadors Theatre , is a West End theatre located in West Street, near Cambridge Circus on the Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster...
  
  ) - Pat
• Our Late Night (20 October 1999 - 6 November 1999) The New Ambassadors Theatre - Lewis
• Green Field (play) (April - May 2002) The Traverse Theatre Company Edinburgh
• The Pillowman
  The Pillowman
  The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995...
  
  (February 2005) The National Theatre
  Royal National Theatre
  The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
  
  
• Beautiful Burnout (2009) National Theatre of Scotland
  National Theatre of Scotland
  The National Theatre of Scotland is a theatre company established in February 2006. The company performs in a wide range of venues including theatres, halls and found spaces across Scotland....
  
   and Frantic Assembly
• Much Ado About Nothing
  Much Ado About Nothing
  Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
  
  (2011) - Shakespeare's Globe
  Shakespeare's Globe
  Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, located on the south bank of the River Thames, but destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt 1614 then demolished in 1644. The modern reconstruction is an academic best guess, based...
  
   - Don Pedro

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