Hugh Stewart was born on December 14, 1910 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England as Hugh St. Clair Stewart. He was a producer and editor, known for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), On the Beat (1962) and The Square Peg (1958). He was married to Frances Curl. He died on May 31, 2011 in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England.
English producer, former editor at Gaumont-British from 1934, subsequently with Korda at London Films. He was the son of a clergyman, educated at St John's College, Cambridge. At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Royal Artillery, but was eventually seconded to head No 5 Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU). In this capacity, he went on to photograph the horrors of the newly liberated concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Between 1949 and 1966, he worked as an independent producer for the Rank Organisation at Pinewood, afterwards reinventing himself as an English teacher at Uxbridge Technical College.