Actor (the nameless Video Ranger in "Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere" (Columbia, 1951) and later a writer, director and producer who in 1976 became the leader of a splinter group that became the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences when it split from the Hollywood chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The origins of the new group centered around disagreements over budgetary controls and the concept that television productions had by the mid-1970s largely moved to the West Coast from its historic center in the East. Larry Stewart won four of the West Coast academy's Emmys for writing, directing and documentary production for KNBC-TV, as well as the academy's Founders Award.