- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 13, 1889
- Place of Birth
- Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Died
- July 29, 1941
James Stephenson
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 h…
Filmography
movieInternational Squadron
1941 · Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
movieShining Victory
1941 · Dr. Paul Venner
movieFlight from Destiny
1941 · Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
movieThe Letter
1940 · Howard Joyce
movieSouth of Suez
1940 · Inspector Thornton
movieA Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · Carew
movieThe Sea Hawk
1940 · Abbott
movieRiver's End
1940 · McDowell
movieMurder in the Air
1940 · Joe Garvey
movieCalling Philo Vance
1940 · Philo Vance
Wolf of New York
movieWolf of New York
1940 · Hiram Rogers
movieWe Are Not Alone
1939 · Sir William Clintock
movieThe Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939 · Sir Thomas Egerton
movieThe Monroe Doctrine
1939 · Senor De La Torre
movieEspionage Agent
1939 · Dr. Anton Rader
movieThe Old Maid
1939 · Jim Ralston
movieBeau Geste
1939 · Major Henri de Beaujolais
movieSons of Liberty
1939 · Colonel Tillman
movieConfessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · British Military Intelligence Agent
movieWanted by Scotland Yard
1939 · Fingers
movieOn Trial
1939 · Gerald Trask
movieThe Adventures of Jane Arden
1939 · Dr. George Vanders
movieSecret Service of the Air
1939 · Jim Cameron
movieTorchy Blane in Chinatown
1939 · Dr. Mansfield
movieKing of the Underworld
1939 · Bill Stevens
movieDevil's Island
1939 · Col. Armand Lucien
movieHeart of the North
1938 · Stephen Gore
movieNancy Drew… Detective
1938 · Challon
movieBoy Meets Girl
1938 · Major Thompson
movieCowboy from Brooklyn
1938 · Prof. Landis
movieWhite Banners
1938 · Thomas Bradford
movieWhen Were You Born
1938 · Phillip Corey
Mr. Satan
movieMr. Satan
1938 · Tim Garnett
The Dark Stairway
movieThe Dark Stairway
1938 · Inspector Clarke
The Man Who Made Diamonds
movieThe Man Who Made Diamonds
1937 · Ben
You Live and Learn
movieYou Live and Learn
1937 · Sam Brooks
Transatlantic Trouble
movieTransatlantic Trouble
1937 · Lewis