James Stephenson
Age: 52 | From: Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1889-04-14 02:49:49
Death: 1941-07-29 02:49:49
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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)
Most Famous Work
The Sea Hawk
(1940) Abbott
Beau Geste
(1939) Major Henri de Beaujolais
The Letter
(1940) Howard Joyce
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(1939) Sir Thomas Egerton
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939) British Military Intelligence Agent
A Dispatch from Reuter's
(1940) Carew
The Old Maid
(1939) Jim Ralston
Calling Philo Vance
(1940) Philo VanceActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Jack Carpenter | |
| Harold Besser | ||
| 1941 | Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt | |
| Dr. Paul Venner | ||
| Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens | ||
| 1940 | Howard Joyce | |
| Inspector Thornton | ||
| Carew | ||
| McDowell | ||
| Abbott | ||
| Joe Garvey | ||
| Philo Vance | ||
| Hiram Rogers | ||
| 1939 | Sir William Clintock | |
| Sir Thomas Egerton | ||
| Senor De La Torre | ||
| Dr. Anton Rader | ||
| Jim Ralston | ||
| Major Henri de Beaujolais | ||
| Colonel Tillman | ||
| British Military Intelligence Agent | ||
| Gerald Trask | ||
| Dr. George Vanders | ||
| Jim Cameron | ||
| Dr. Mansfield | ||
| Bill Stevens | ||
| Col. Armand Lucien | ||
| 1938 | Stephen Gore | |
| Challon | ||
| Major Thompson | ||
| Prof. Landis | ||
| Thomas Bradford | ||
| Phillip Corey | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
