{"id":43238,"date":"2026-10-30T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43238"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:25:57","slug":"rip-patrick-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43238","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Patrick Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Patrick Stewart died on October 28, 2026.\u00a0 He was 86.<\/p>\n

Patrick Stewart was encouraged by his teachers to get into acting.\u00a0 By the age of twelve, Patrick was a member of local drama groups.\u00a0 He quit school at the age of 15.\u00a0 Patrick Stewart worked at a various jobs, attended drama classes and continued to seek roles in local plays.<\/p>\n

His first professional stage appearance was in 1959 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol in Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1964 Mr. Stewart’s first television credit appears on his acting resume.\u00a0 It wasn’t until 1975 that Patrick Stewart got a feature film credit.\u00a0 \u00a0When Patrick Stewart was chosen to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation\u00a0<\/em>(the role that made him famous), the Los Angeles Times referred to him as an “unknown British Shakespearean actor”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0 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<\/em> and The Sheep Detectives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Patrick Stewart’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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