Celebrity Stuntman Stuart St Paul has had a life of storytelling. He won Best Director in the USA, a Silver Palm in Mexico, was nominated for a Star & Screen award in Mumbai. His Thomas Hardy movie, The Scarlet Tunic was chosen in Cannes for official selection at both Cabourg and Verona.

He started his career at Capitol Records and toured as promotions manager with Bob Seger, Dr Hook and Mink DeVille before turning to TV and film. he has worked in Hollywood or for the majors from Netflix and Universal, to Warner Bros and the BBC.

As a result of the multitude of story-telling tricks learnt during his time as a director, he delivers a humorous, action-packed, and tension-laden narrative as a novelist in the six-strong cruise crime book series CSCI, that leaves readers on the edge of their seats, and impossible to second guess. Cruise Ship Heist was a winner at the LA Neo Noir Festival, has been an Amazon number one and has official perfect 5-star reviews from book clubs. However, more than a few bones were broken in the process.

Despite all his achievements, he is still known as the Celebrity Stuntman, even though his last performance being back in 1985 playing inside the iconic Queen Alien for James Cameron in Aliens. He has been in three Bond films and directed the pickup unit on both Sherlock films - he explains what that is and how the movie industry works.
Stuart is just as engaging live on stage, with amazing funny stories you will not hear anywhere else, from his personal 50 years in the industry.

His knowledge of screenwriting, financing, distributing, promotion, and casting means he is at home chatting about how a movie goes from the gem of an idea, to being financed, manufactured, sold, and distributed globally. Now officially a Cinema Veteran, he has a lifetime pass into the cinema. He turns the whole entertainment world upside down and is as happy as an after-dinner speaker with no visual aid as he is with his gripping clips. He is a face you may well know and talks about people you have grown up with and watched.

Stuart is one of the first speakers on the new Queen Anne. He has worked for many cruise lines including Fred Olsen, SAGA, Cunard and P&O in the evening after dinner slot, the daytime slot and hosted and un-hosted Q&A like the Cunard Yacht Club.

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Stuart has worked with all the majors from Warner Bros to Universal, from HBO to Netflix, from Cinemax to the BBC. His cruise crime novels have hit number 1 in the Amazon charts. He has won dozens of international awards from LA to Mumbai and worked all over the world.
He can use any of his endless modules to build a talk. His shows are never the same.

Stuart has worked in the after-dinner evening slot on many ships.
He is a regular daytime speaker in the theatres and his career makes a fascinating Q&A.
He is a constant high scorer. From his vast body of work, it is easy to set a tone to suit any audience.

T1
Becoming the Queen Alien. Meet the ‘Wild Boy’ inside film’s most terrifying monster (who learned storytelling from movie industry icons).

T2
Jumping off the Statue of Liberty. Leap into the reshooting of a completed Disney movie.

T3
Children in Deadly Stunts. Decide whether you would allow your child to do a movie stunt.

T4 - Aqaba
War in the Desert. Recreate a Napoleonic Battle in the (40 degree heat of the) Wadi Rum.

T5
Music in Film. Delve into the battle to get unobtainable REM and Bryan Adams tracks into a movie.

T6
A Film’s Assets. Trade in your assets for film finance. The value of actors or their unusual talents. (Counting Jean-Claude Van Damme’s high kicks.)

Alternatives


T - Fiji
Taking UK the Rock Legends who opened Live Aid, to Fiji in a Cyclone -The story of shooting a movie with rock legends that started on Coronation Street and ended up acting in a movie in the middle of the Pacific.

T - Christmas
Making Christmas Great The pressure to make a top show - s Christmas trees that go wrong, then a child and training to perform a death-defying stunt for a huge Christmas day audience.

Talk option 7
Locations Deceive; nothing is what you see – Where was Octopussy’s Palace? Was Game of Thrones shot in Iceland?

T - writing
Writing for Screen and Paper - The pacing of a screenplay and a novel and how the two are so different. Stuart’s screenplays ran from Hardy to Sci-Fi, his novels are set around the cruise industry.

T - Legal and Safety
Legal and Safety in Film – deliberately creating action and accidents. The legal work, informing your employer of his risks, and the court cases that follow.

Originally sent to a ship by a major broadcaster as an After Dinner Speaker, Stuart has been a top scorer with operators for 20yrs. The multi-award winning director is an engaging & amusing entertainer with tales from all over the globe & outer space in A-list iconic movies.

earlier cruises to follow - some after diner celeb, some daytime
2018 P&O V808
2018 P&O E808
2018 P&O B818
2018 P&O N826
2018 Cunard V833
2018 P&O R824
2019 P&O J903 World Fiji leg special on filming with Status Quo
2019 P&O R903
2019 P&O A927
2020 P&O N003
2022 SAGA SU049
2022 Cunard M223
2022 P&O G237
2023 P&O A312
2023 P&O R301
2023 P&O R309
2023 P&O J401