So Stewart found his first employment as an actor in the new medium. His arrival coincided with the beginning of British television's long boom, and came just before the birth of ITV. In 1954, just after the Queen's coronation, he came to Britain from New Zealand. Like many young artists at the time, Stewart became part of the postwar Australasian diaspora. Its star, as Major Keen, was Bruce Stewart, who has died, aged 80. The reason was that it was made in Sydney, and broadcast across Australasia. The cult 1940s radio series, Dossier on Demetrius, set around postwar London, focused on 'Major Gregory Keen of MI5' and his battles with the plots of nefarious Nazi villains. Yet the show was not, unlike the BBC series Dick Barton: Special Agent, big in Britain.
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