A FILM-MAKER who worked with Morecambe and Wise left a lasting legacy with his coverage of the liberated concentration camps.

Hugh St Clair Stewart was born on December 14 1910 at Falmouth, Cornwall, and was educated at Clayesmore School in Dorset.

He recently died at the age of 100.

He started his career learning the business on Crazy Gang comedies. He cut together out-takes from Marry Me (1932) and later went into editing, working with Victor Saville on Evergreen (1934) and Alfred Hitchcock on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) as supervising editor.

Other credits include Dark Journey and Action for Slander (both 1937); South Riding and St Martin’s Lane (both 1938); and The Spy in Black (1939).

At the start of the Second World War he joined the Royal Artillery but managed to finish editing 10 Days In Paris (1939), with Rex Harrison.

He filmed throughout the war and covered the Allied landings in Tunisia.

But it was his determination that the liberation of the concentration camps be filmed that was perhaps one of his abiding achievements.

He was under orders to follow the Allied troops as they advanced but he realised the significance of the events and asked his superiors to allow him to create a photographic and video record.

US General Eisenhower overrode his orders and Hugh and his team filmed Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, they filmed the survivors the camp, living conditions and piles of bodies being bulldozed into mass graves.

The experience of those few days stayed with him for the rest of his life.

After the war Hugh returned to England and worked at Pinewood Studios in London and began to produce the films of Norman Wisdom, from Man of the Moment (1955) onwards, as well as films starring the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.

He left Pinewood in 1966 and became an English teacher and continued to create films part-time.

After retirement he was heavily involved in the community of the Buckinghamshire village of Denham, was involved in the Royal British Legion and was an avid supporter of Norwich City FC.

He was survived by his wife Frances Curl, who he married in 1934, and his two daughters and two sons.