Captain Picard brought out the best in us - and so did the man who played him." Star Trek, X-Men and British theater star Patrick Stewart has died. This is how colleagues and journalists remember him. Sir Patrick Stewart, the British stage and film actor, has died. He is best known worldwide for his roles as Captain Picard in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran from 1987 to 1994, and as telepath Charles Xavier (aka Professor X) in the X-Men films. At the same time, in London, New York and Shakespeare's hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon, Stewart is also known as a great theater actor who played dozens of classic roles - among them Othello, Macbeth and Mark Antony. Here is what the media and colleagues write about the actor. Open a website Mirror | telegram.