James Stephenson
Actor/Actriz
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British stage actor James Stephenson made his film debut quite late in life, at the age of 49, in 1937, making four pictures that year. Warner Bros. got a glimpse of this distinguished gent and signed him to a contract where he indulged himself in urbane villainy. Proving a reliable support in such films as Boy Meets Girl (1938), You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and the classic adventure The Sea Hawk (1940), he was entrusted by director William Wyler and mega-star Bette Davis to play the sympathetic role of the family attorney Howard Joyce in The Letter (1940). It was the role of a lifetime and he didn't let them down for he earned an Oscar nomination in the process. Stephenson was soon on a roll, playing the titular sleuth in Calling Philo Vance (1940) and was first-billed in the above-average "B" movie Shining Victory (1941) when he died suddenly in 1941 of a heart attack at the rather young age of 53.
Date of Death: 29 July 1941, Pacific Palisades, California (heart attack)
As Actor/Actress
La carta
Howard Joyce
Mi reino por un amor
Sir Thomas Egerton
King of the Underworld
Bill Stevens
El halcón de los mares
Abbott
The Old Maid
Jim Ralston
Beau Geste
Major Henri de Beaujolais
International Squadron
Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Dr. Mansfield
Flight from Destiny
Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
Espionage Agent
Dr. Anton Rader
Secret Service of the Air
Jim Cameron
When Were You Born
Phillip Corey
River's End
McDowell
Sons of Liberty
Colonel Tillman
Nancy Drew… Detective
Challon
Confesiones de un espía nazi
British Military Intelligence Agent
Shining Victory
Dr. Paul Venner
Devil's Island
Col. Armand Lucien
The Monroe Doctrine
Senor De La Torre
On Trial
Gerald Trask
Heart of the North
Stephen Gore
We Are Not Alone
Sir William Clintock
White Banners
Thomas Bradford
Boy Meets Girl
Major Thompson
The Adventures of Jane Arden
Dr. George Vanders
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Prof. Landis
South of Suez
Inspector Thornton
Calling Philo Vance
Philo Vance
A Dispatch from Reuters
Carew
Murder in the Air
Joe Garvey