RIP: Patrick Stewart

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Patrick Stewart died on October 28, 2026.  He was 86.

Patrick Stewart was encouraged by his teachers to get into acting.  By the age of twelve, Patrick was a member of local drama groups.  He quit school at the age of 15.  Patrick Stewart worked at a various jobs, attended drama classes and continued to seek roles in local plays.

His first professional stage appearance was in 1959 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol in Cyrano de Bergerac.  In 1964 Mr. Stewart’s first television credit appears on his acting resume.  It wasn’t until 1975 that Patrick Stewart got a feature film credit.   When Patrick Stewart was chosen to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation (the role that made him famous), the Los Angeles Times referred to him as an “unknown British Shakespearean actor”.

Some of Patrick Stewart’s television work includes: Story Parade; Theatre 625; BBC Play of the Month; Play for Today; Fall of Eagles (3 episodes); Anthony and Cleopatra; Omnibus (2 episodes); North and South (4 episodes); The Madness; I, Claudius (4 episodes); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The BBC Television Shakespeare; Little Lord Fauntleroy; Smiley’s People; Maybury (20 episodes); Star Trek: The Next Generation (176 episodes); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 500 Nations (3 episodes); Moby Dick (2 episodes); A Christmas Carol; Frasier; The Lion in the Winter; High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman (8 episodes); Extras; Hamlet; The Hollow Crown (2 episodes); Futurama; The Simpsons (2 episodes); The Daily Show; Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures; Robot Chicken (3 episodes); Blunt Talk (20 episodes); National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land; Family Guy (15 episodes); Star Trek: Picard (30 episodes); Bait (2 episodes) and American Dad! (125 episodes).

Some of Patrick Stewart’s feature film work includes: Hennessy; Excalibur; The Plague Dogs; Dune; Wild Geese II; Lifeforce; L.A. Story; Gunmen; Robin Hood: Men in Tights; Star Trek: Generations; Star Trek: First Contact; Conspiracy Theory; Safe House; Star Trek: Insurrection; The Prince of Egypt; X-Men; Star  Trek: Nemesis; X2: X-Men United; X-Men: The Last Stand; X-Men Origins: Wolverine; The Wolverine; X-Men: Days of Future Past; Green Room; Logan; Charlie’s Angels; Dr. Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness and The Sheep Detectives.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Patrick Stewart’s family, friends and fans.