DOYLE, STUART FRANK (1887-1945), film and radio entrepreneur, was born on 1 December 1887 at Leichhardt, Sydney, second son of English parents Frank Doyle, draper's assistant, and his wife Jane Grinsell, née Robinson. Brought up and educated at Blackheath, he became assistant librarian at the Law Institute of New South Wales in 1903 and next year joined Norton Smith & Co. At 19, as 'Frank Stuart', he toured the State as a one-man entertainer and from 1909 worked for the (Greater) J. D. Williams Amusement Co. Ltd in Queensland then Sydney. It amalgamated in 1913 with four companies into Union Theatres Ltd (exhibition) and Australasian Films Ltd (distribution). Doyle's progress became rapid: business manager, a joint managing director, and by 1929 managing director of Australasian Films and a director of at least eight associated companies. On 4 May 1912 at Petersham he had married Louise Marie Wilhelmina Fredericke Reinke ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography