---
name: "Stuart Lancaster"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stuart-lancaster"
fi1m_id: "stuart-lancaster"
imdb_id: "nm0484179"
tmdb_id: 4596
wikidata_id: "Q3976229"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 November 1920"
died: "22 December 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T15:55:04.331578+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Stuart Lancaster

## Identity

Stuart Lancaster

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stuart-lancaster
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stuart-lancaster
- **IMDb ID:** nm0484179
- **TMDB ID:** 4596
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3976229
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Lancaster_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3976229, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484179/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4596

Actor. Born 30 November 1920 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Died 22 December 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 November 1920, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 22 December 2000
- **Active:** 1965–1992
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 75 (1), 1990s 82 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 2, Fantasy 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Drama 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $366m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Lancaster_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3976229, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484179/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4596

## Biography

Stuart Lancaster was an American actor. He played the Old Man in the 1965 Russ Meyer film *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!*.

Born Stuart Gage Lancaster on 30 November 1920 in Evanston, Illinois, he served as an aviator in the United States Navy during the Second World War and moved to Los Angeles in 1962. He appeared in several Meyer films, including *Mudhoney* (1965), *Supervixens* (1975) and *Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens* (1979). Later credits included roles in *Edward Scissorhands* (1990) and *Batman Returns* (1992).

Lancaster founded and directed the Palm Tree Playhouse in Sarasota, Florida. His wife, Ivy Bethune, was an actress. He died in Los Angeles on 22 December 2000.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Batman Returns* (1992), Fi1m 81, as Penguin's Doctor — [page](https://film.one/film/batman-returns.md)
- *Edward Scissorhands* (1990), Fi1m 83, as Retired Man — [page](https://film.one/film/edward-scissorhands.md)
- *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), Fi1m 75, as The Old Man — [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Batman Returns* (1992), as Penguin's Doctor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/batman-returns.md)
- *Edward Scissorhands* (1990), as Retired Man — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/edward-scissorhands.md)
- *Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn* (1989), as George
- *Down on Us* (1984), as New York Cabbie
- *The Loch Ness Horror* (1981), as Professor Pratt
- *Mistress of the Apes* (1979), as Brady
- *Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens* (1979), as The Man from Small Town U.S.A.
- *Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell* (1978), as Charlie
- *Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas* (1977), as George Newman
- *The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer* (1977), Actor
- *Kill Alex Kill* (1976), Actor
- *Supervixens* (1975), as Farmer
- *Godmonster of Indian Flats* (1973), as Mayor Charles Silverdale
- *The Brain Machine* (1972), as Senator
- *The Seven Minutes* (1971), as Dr. Roger Trimble
- *The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried* (1971), as King Gunther (voice) (uncredited)
- *Wilbur and the Baby Factory* (1970), as W.W.
- *Starlet!* (1969), as Kenyon Adler
- *The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet* (1969), as Lord Capulet
- *Thar She Blows!* (1968), as Kenyon Adler
- *Lila* (1968), as Frank
- *Good Morning... and Goodbye!* (1967), as Burt
- *The Born Losers* (1967), as Sheriff Harvey
- *The Invaders* (1967), series, as Superintendent
- *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), as The Old Man — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md)
- *Mudhoney!* (1965), as Lute Wade
- *The Fugitive* (1963), series, as Wingo — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fugitive-1963.md)
- *The Outer Limits* (1963), series, as Skipper

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