Otho Stuart (9 August 1863 – 1 May 1930) was a British actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who specialised in performing in the plays of Shakespeare.

In 1881 Stuart was employed as a commercial clerk[2] and made his professional stage début in 1886 in F. R. Benson's first season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

[3][1] In April 1886 he played Francisco in Hamlet,[4] Julio in Othello,[5] Messenger in Richard III,[6] and in May 1886 the Surgeon in The Corsican Brothers.

[7] In Benson's 1888 season at Stratford-upon-Avon he played Morello opposite Ada Ferrar in Andrea;[8] Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream;[9] Horatio in Hamlet;[10] Paris in Romeo and Juliet;[11] and was Dashwood in The Belle's Stratagem.

[13] In the same year he appeared at Benson's season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, playing Horatio in Hamlet,[14] Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing,[15] Bertie Fitzurse in New Men and Old Acres,[16] and Ferdinand in The Tempest.

Here he had an unexpected failure and needing another play quickly he accepted Lady Frederick by Somerset Maugham, then virtually an unknown writer.

[31] Stuart returned to F. R. Benson for his later seasons at Stratford, playing Dr. Burton in The Peacemaker opposite Lilian Braithwaite (1907),[32] and the Duke of Clarence in Richard III (1909 and 1910);[33] He was Edward Stacy Spells in Through the Post at the Royal Court Theatre (1910).

[34] For Benson at Stratford Stuart played Bassanio and Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice (1910 and 1911);[35] Valentine in You Never Can Tell (1912);[36] and Young Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer (1912).

[34] In F. R. Benson's 1915-16 Stratford season Stuart was Menenius Agrippa in Coriolanus (1915), Horatio in Hamlet (1915), Chorus in Henry V (1915 and 1916), Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar (1915), Duke of Clarence in Richard III (1915), Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (1915), and Feste in Twelfth Night (1915).