Movie maker Stuart St Paul first worked on the cruise ships as an evening after-dinner speaker. He has now been a guest on over 30 cruises.It is now rare to find evening speakers from show business, sport, or politics as were the normal thirty years ago, but some of them now work daytime speakers. They are especially found on the routes with many sea days like the long and world cruises. Stuart normally takes between 4 and twelve cruises a year, and fits them in between lunch time guilds where he tells his media tales, and as a lecturer at Health and Safety conferences talking about the legal steeplechase that movie stunts perform before they are done.

Stuart lectures to colleges and sixth forms on the width of jobs within the movie industry and to students, not just about screenwriting and directing, but how to stay in work constantly for fifty years. He can also describe workloads and scheduling and how that reflects on booking actors and why films rarely ever rehearse.

But it is the tales that guests want to hear on cruise ships. His work with the great stars from legends like Richard Harris, filming in Fiji with rock legends Status Quo for Universal Pictures, or choreographing fight scenes with Jean Claude Van Damme for Sony. He shows a fight scene with the sound turned off and explains how similar it is to the movement and accuracy required by the judges on Strictly Come Dancing. And full circle, Stuart’s life has been music and film. He started as a radio DJ in the seventies, then when movie into film with the cyclone of huge budget pop videos in the eighties, he became Simon LeBon’s double, Elton John’s double, worked adding the spectacular gymnasts and stunt performers to the dance troops with the likes of Ailene Philips and Bruno so found his way as one of the entertainment program team on the Strictly cruises with P&O. Even his stories of having Bryan Adams and REM get him tracks for a movie are a great insight into another world.

His tales of jobs that people know all over the globe are international. Everyone knows Hollywood and Bollywood. Stuart keeps audiences gripped as his life has been unique. He is one of the highest-scoring celebrity speakers on the cruise circuit. As he never works to a script his shows are always different and audience lead. 

Stuart has performed on dozens of ships over twenty years now, which inspired him to film port guides when the ship stopped, and write cruise thrillers when at sea. It is no surprising his cruise crime novels read like movies.

Stuart has appeared as himself on endless TV shows, from Too Much TV, interviewed by Emma Bunting, to the many behind-the-scenes extras for Emmerdale and Coronation Street. Yes, the only other man to have ever been Mrs Brown, and there are stories there too that relate to Christmas and children.

If you have watched any television or film, you will have seen something he did. Even eclectic work such as Merchant Ivory or his own romantic love story, The Scarlet Tunic. That was based on a Thomas Hardy short story and shot in Dorset. It was picked up at Cannes and he was against the likes of The English Patient and Anna Karenina for Best Director at festivals like Verona and Cabourg.

Now a writer, his CSCI crime mysteries follow cruise routes you will know, on ships you are familiar with, but not with stories of human trafficking, drug smuggling and murders. Whilst many suggest The Good Ship Murder must have read his books, Stuart says that they may have read the cover, but the scale and budget of a real cruise crime in CSCI is not what they have done.

To see him interviewed at a Literary Festival at sea with fellow writer and actor Robert Daws. Click here. 

Stuart’s official movie credit page on the International Movie Data Base IMDB – click here

Stuart’s author page on Amazon – click here

They are stories you won’t hear anywhere else. 

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With over ten years as a radio and television presenter, Stuart was 27 before turning to drama. The combination of talents leads him to be a go-to ‘in vision’ film man for pop videos and light entertainment in the mid-1980s. Making classics like Duran Duran’s Wild Boys. The Kemp brothers, The Krays was the first film he co-produced. He appeared three times on Barry Norman’s Film Night, was a guest judge on Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game twice, and co-presented the TV special ‘Extreme Magic, Extreme Danger’ with Ulrika Jonsson. The list includes being one of The Russ Abbott’s Mad House team for a while more recently saw him on ‘Too Much TV’ with Emma Bunton. Stuart also starred, as an actor, in the twice-weekly soap ‘Radio Phoenix’ for a year, was the face of Woolworth’s classic 1980’s adverts and the voice of Safeway’s adverts for two years. Stuart is a free-speaking entertainer with gripping, humorous, and informative stories that dramatically turn on a knife-edge and have you laughing before thinking deeply. Never working from a script, no two after-dinner talks or lectures are the same. Stuart has worked on ships worldwide from the Pacific to Hong Kong, from The Black Watch to The Britannia and he has spoken at and chaired many major conferences in the UK and the USA.

Stuart has bought, sold and distributed films as well as written, produced and directed them. The Hollywood Reporter referred to him as a tri-hyphenate and IMDB lists him in hundreds of major films and TV episodes from the BBC to HBO.

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“I am a writer at heart, I have just imagineered in pictures for forty years. I have written many screenplays but had to learn how incredibly different a novel is and enjoyed the challenge.” Stuart admits. The CSCI Cruise Ship INVESTIGATORS are out on Kindle, paperback, hardback, and audiobook. “They have to be pacy. They have just enough action, a touch of romance, and keep twisting and turning so the reader cannot guess. Putting all that into a cruise ship is a challenge I enjoy.”

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Agent: Lewis Ray & Isabelle Lee at CHAMPIONS

WHAT THEY SAY

We really enjoyed having you speak at the event (Health & Safety conference) and you were very well-received! We will definitely keep you in mind for future events ☺ Stepahanie Cohen, Account Director. Assured Events

Thank you so much for your speech at the USHA dinner. Thank you in particular for tailoring it to our membership and making it relevant. The feedback I have received so far is that people found your session hugely enjoyable and really appreciated the link to their day job. Neil Budworth. Chair, USHA.