Stuart Legg
(United Kingdom)

Stuart Legg (31 August 1910, London, England – 23 July 1988, Wiltshire, England) was a documentary film-maker. As part of the British Documentary Film Movement, he worked with the General Post Office film unit from 1933, before replacing Paul Rotha as head of Strand Films in 1937. In 1939, he moved to Canada with John Grierson, where he launched the National Film Board of Canada's Canada Carries On and World in Action film series, for which he made many films. His most notable films include Churchill's Island (1941), which won the first Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject, and Warclouds in the Pacific, which was nominated for the same award. A few years after the war, he returned to Britain and worked as a producer for the Crown Film Unit between 1948 and 1950. In 1957, he became chairman of the Film Centre International. He later produced documentaries for Shell.

Films
Filmography
Powered Fight: The Story of the Century
1953
John Bull's Own Island
1945
Food: Secret of the Peace
1945
Balkan Powder Keg
1944
Inside France
1944
The War for Men's Minds
1943
The Invasion of North Africa
1942
Churchill's Island
1941
Warclouds in the Pacific
1941
The Case of Charlie Gordon
1939
Youth is Tomorrow
1939
Free to Roam
1938
Yugoslavia
1935
The Coming of the Dial
1933
Cable Ship
1933
Varsity
1930

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