Trivia

Stuart's novel, The War Zone, was awarded the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel in 1989, only to have the award withdrawn before the prize giving ceremony amid controversy involving one dissenting judge.

A newly updated and fully revised 20th Anniversary Edition of The War Zone (novel) was published in 2009, including both the original British and American opening chapters, an Afterword by Tim Roth and a Diary of the Making of the Film by Alexander Stuart.

Sarah Radclyffe, one of the producers of The War Zone, previously co-produced his short film, The Man Who Shot Christmas, which featured Jim Broadbent as Santa Claus.

At age seventeen was commissioned by BBC TV to write and direct a short film, The Hollow Moment, and invited by Films and Filming magazine in the UK to become a regular movie critic and feature writer.

Three children, one deceased. One son, born 1983, died 1989. One son, born 2004, and one daughter, born 2009.

For his first venture as a producer, he persuaded director Nicolas Roeg

• whom he had only met once, for a magazine interview - to see the

play, Insignificance, that Stuart was trying to get the rights to. Roeg came on the play's last night, agreed to direct the movie, and helped Stuart set the project up with producer Jeremy Thomas.

The War Zone novel is listed for its publication year, 1989, in The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone).

Judge at the Sitges International Film Festival, Spain, 1995.

On September 22 2006, Stuart was sworn in as an American Citizen.

In 2007, he informally adopted the surname Chow-Stuart to celebrate the fusion of both family names in his children's surname.

Helped his wife deliver their daughter at home in Los Angeles on New Year's Day 2009, before the midwife could arrive.

Writing script of his novel "The War Zone" for Tim Roth to direct. Writing script based on book, "Among The Thugs", for Kiefer Sutherland to direct. (1996)

Stuart wrote the first three drafts of Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin (2016), starring Scarlett Johansson. Penelope Cruz once performed a brief scene for him in the garden of the Chateau Marmont.

Stuart taught graduate level screenwriting at the University of Miami for three years in the mid-1990s, during the period he was developing the films of The War Zone and Among The Thugs.

Stuart wrote Agatha Christie's Ordeal By Innocence as a noir take on Christie, with Dartmouth in Devon substituting for foggy San Francisco. The original soundtrack by Pino Donaggio has now been released on CD under license from MGM. The production company, Canon, recut the film to minimize the noir elements, and replaced Donaggio's score with an intrusive piano jazz score by Dave Brubeck.

He was a film critic in England in the early 1970s, when he was still a teenager.