Freddie Stewart (actor)
{{Short description|American actor (1925–2000)}}
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| name = Freddie Stewart
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| birth_name = Morris Joseph Lazar
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|03|25|mf=y}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|08|15|1925|03|25|mf=y}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Actor
- singer
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| spouse = {{marriage|Lola Katherine DeWitt|1951}}
| children = April Stewart
| module = {{Infobox musical artist
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| instrument = Vocals
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| associated_acts = {{flatlist|
- Joe Sanns Orchestra
- The Sweet Swingsters
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Freddie Stewart (born Morris Joseph Lazar; March 25, 1925 – August 15, 2000) was an American actor and big band singer. He is best known for appearing in the Monogram Pictures film series The Teen Agers from 1946 to 1948.{{Cite news|title=Detective Will Menace Belita in 'The Hunted'|author=Schallert, Edwin|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Nov 7, 1945|page=A3}}{{cite news|title=MONOGRAM PLANS 48 FEATURE FILMS: Allied Artists, Firm's Affiliate, to Make Seven in 1947–48 -- Latter Has Four Ready|date=July 21, 1947|work=New York Times|page=12}}
Life and career
Stewart was born in New York City. He dropped out of school to work as a stock clerk and also worked summers at a Catskills resort. He renamed himself Freddie Stewart (after actors James Stewart and Freddie Bartholomew) when he joined the Cappy Barra Harmonica Band in 1939. By the next year, he was working as a vocalist with Clyde McCoy's orchestra for $60 a week. He worked his way up to his own radio show in New York on NBC, the fifteen-minute nightly, Freddie Stewart Sings.
He wrote a song called "Do I Know What I'm Doing" for She's for Me (1943) and made an appearance in She's a Sweetheart (1944). He later joined Tommy Dorsey's band as a singer for a year.
In 1945, he signed with Monogram Pictures to make a series of movies.
Filmography
- Junior Prom (1946)
- Freddie Steps Out (1946)
- High School Hero (1946)
- Vacation Days (1947)
- Louisiana (1947)
- Sarge Goes to College (1947)
- Campus Sleuth (1948)
- Smart Politics (1948)
- Music Man (1948)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0829389}}
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Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:20th-century American singers
Category:American male film actors
Category:Capitol Records artists
Category:Singers from New York City