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.
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)
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Filmography (Movies)
International Squadron
Character:Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
Release Date:13/08/1941
Shining Victory
Character:Dr. Paul Venner
Release Date:30/05/1941
Flight from Destiny
Character:Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
Release Date:08/02/1941
The Letter
Character:Howard Joyce
Release Date:21/11/1940
South of Suez
Character:Inspector Thornton
Release Date:16/11/1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
Character:Carew
Release Date:19/10/1940
The Sea Hawk
Character:Abbott
Release Date:10/08/1940
River's End
Character:McDowell
Release Date:10/08/1940
Murder in the Air
Character:Joe Garvey
Release Date:01/06/1940
Calling Philo Vance
Character:Philo Vance
Release Date:03/02/1940
Wolf of New York
Character:Hiram Rogers
Release Date:23/01/1940
We Are Not Alone
Character:Sir William Clintock
Release Date:25/11/1939
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character:Sir Thomas Egerton
Release Date:11/11/1939
The Monroe Doctrine
Character:Senor De La Torre
Release Date:14/10/1939
Espionage Agent
Character:Dr. Anton Rader
Release Date:30/09/1939
The Old Maid
Character:Jim Ralston
Release Date:16/08/1939
Beau Geste
Character:Major Henri de Beaujolais
Release Date:24/07/1939
Sons of Liberty
Character:Colonel Tillman
Release Date:20/05/1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character:British Military Intelligence Agent
Release Date:06/05/1939
Wanted by Scotland Yard
Character:Fingers
Release Date:19/04/1939
On Trial
Character:Gerald Trask
Release Date:01/04/1939
The Adventures of Jane Arden
Character:Dr. George Vanders
Release Date:18/03/1939
Secret Service of the Air
Character:Jim Cameron
Release Date:04/03/1939
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Character:Dr. Mansfield
Release Date:02/02/1939
King of the Underworld
Character:Bill Stevens
Release Date:14/01/1939
Devil's Island
Character:Col. Armand Lucien
Release Date:07/01/1939
Heart of the North
Character:Stephen Gore
Release Date:10/12/1938
Nancy Drew… Detective
Character:Challon
Release Date:19/11/1938
Boy Meets Girl
Character:Major Thompson
Release Date:27/08/1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character:Prof. Landis
Release Date:09/07/1938
White Banners
Character:Thomas Bradford
Release Date:23/06/1938
When Were You Born
Character:Phillip Corey
Release Date:18/06/1938
Mr. Satan
Character:Tim Garnett
Release Date:01/02/1938
The Dark Stairway
Character:Inspector Clarke
Release Date:01/01/1938
The Man Who Made Diamonds
Character:Ben
Release Date:06/12/1937
You Live and Learn
Character:Sam Brooks
Release Date:01/09/1937
Transatlantic Trouble
Character:Lewis
Release Date:01/01/1937
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