H.G. Stoker

Captain Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker, also known as Hew Stoker and commonly credited in films as H. G. Stoker or Dacre Stoker, was an Irish actor and Royal Navy officer who commanded the Royal Australian Navy's submarine HMAS AE2 during the First World War. Stoker was captured in 1915 and he spent the remaining three-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war of the Ottoman Empire. He retired from the navy in 1920 to pursue an acting career on the stage and film.