Freddie Stewart (actor)
Freddie Stewart, born Morris Joseph Lazar (25 March 1921 - 21 August 2000) was an American actor and singer. His credits included playing the lead in The Teen Agers series of films.[1][2]
Career
Lazar 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 Cappa 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 "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. [3]
Select Filmography
- Junior Prom (1946)
- Freddie Steps Out (1946)
- High School Hero (1946)
- Vacation Days (1947)
- Sarge Goes to College (1947)
- Campus Sleuth (1948)
- Smart Politics (1948)
- Music Man (1948)
References
- ↑ Detective Will Menace Belita in 'The Hunted' Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 07 Nov 1945: A3.
- ↑ MONOGRAM PLANS 48 FEATURE FILMS: Allied Artists, Firm's Affiliate, to Make Seven in 1947-48 -- Latter Has Four Ready New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 21 July 1947: 12.
- ↑ Pam Munter, "Freddie Stewart and the Teenagers", Classic Images