Fred Stewart (December 7, 1906 – December 5, 1970) was an American actor and director who appeared on stage, film, and television. Stewart was born in

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and attended

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. As a young man, he operated the Playmakers Theatre in Atlanta from 1924 to 1927, and then made his stage debut with a company playing Huntington, West Virginia. He made his Broadway debut in 1931 in ''Ladies of Creation'' at the

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, the start of a lengthy Broadway career including plays such as ''

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'' (1950 production) ''

The Crucible ''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as ...

'' (1953, original cast) and '' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1955, original cast), and through ''

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'' (1967–68), a play by

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.(7 December 1970)
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'', p. 48 Stewart also debuted in movies in 1931, with film appearances including in ''

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'' (1961) and '' In the Heat of the Night'' (1967). He also debuted on television in 1939. He was played a role on the soap opera ''

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'' at the time of his death. Stewart was a founding member of the Actors Studio, where he died in New York, on December 5, 1970.

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* * 1906 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American actors American male stage actors People from Atlanta {{US-theat-actor-1900s-stub