Stewart McAllister

Stewart McAllister
Born(1914-12-27)27 December 1914
Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died27 November 1962(1962-11-27) (aged 47)
Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
NationalityBritish
OccupationDocumentary film-maker

Stewart McAllister (27 December 1914 – 27 November 1962) was a British documentary film editor who collaborated closely with Humphrey Jennings during the Second World War to produce films for the Crown Film Unit of the Ministry of Information.[1] His contributions towards these films was largely neglected until Dai Vaughan's biography of him, Portrait of an Invisible Man,[2] was published in 1983.[3]

  1. ^ Smith, Adrian (2006). The City of Coventry: A Twentieth Century Icon. I.B. Tauris. p. 62.
  2. ^ Vaughan, Dai (1 January 1983). Portrait of an Invisible Man: The Working Life of Stewart McAllister, Film Editor. BFI [i.e. British Film Institute] Publishing. ISBN 9780851701479.
  3. ^ Jackson, Kevin (2004). "Jennings, (Frank) Humphrey Sinkler (1907–1950)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37600. Retrieved 15 May 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)