Stuart Urban (born 1958) is a British film and television director. He was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School, Kingston upon Thames and King's College School, Wimbledon.At the age of thirteen in 1972, he became the youngest director to have a film shown at the Cannes Film Festival with his short feature The Virus of War. The thirty-minute film was later shown on television in various countries.He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in Modern History.