John Stuart, 1935 (colour litho)

John Alfred Louden Croall (1898-1979) Scottish actor and very successful and prolific leading man in British silent movies of the 1920s and later in talkies through the 1930s until 1978 when he appeared in 'Superman'; depicted here in the 1935 British historical drama film 'Abdul the Damned' playing the role of Talak, a leader of the Young Turks in a film set in the Ottoman empire before the First World War where the Sultan Abdul Hamid II, battles for power with the Young Turks; illustration from a series of 'Portraits of Famous Stars' produced as cigarette cards by Gallaher;