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 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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Filmes (37)
International Squadron
1941 · Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
Shining Victory
1941 · Dr. Paul Venner
Flight from Destiny
1941 · Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
The Letter
1940 · Howard Joyce
South of Suez
1940 · Inspector Thornton
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · Carew
The Sea Hawk
1940 · Abbott
River's End
1940 · McDowell
Murder in the Air
1940 · Joe Garvey
Calling Philo Vance
1940 · Philo Vance
Wolf of New York
1940 · Hiram Rogers
We Are Not Alone
1939 · Sir William Clintock
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939 · Sir Thomas Egerton
The Monroe Doctrine
1939 · Senor De La Torre
Espionage Agent
1939 · Dr. Anton Rader
The Old Maid
1939 · Jim Ralston
Beau Geste
1939 · Major Henri de Beaujolais
Sons of Liberty
1939 · Colonel Tillman
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · British Military Intelligence Agent
Wanted by Scotland Yard
1939 · Fingers
On Trial
1939 · Gerald Trask
The Adventures of Jane Arden
1939 · Dr. George Vanders
Secret Service of the Air
1939 · Jim Cameron
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939 · Dr. Mansfield
King of the Underworld
1939 · Bill Stevens
Devil's Island
1939 · Col. Armand Lucien
Heart of the North
1938 · Stephen Gore
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938 · Challon
Boy Meets Girl
1938 · Major Thompson
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938 · Prof. Landis
White Banners
1938 · Thomas Bradford
When Were You Born
1938 · Phillip Corey
Mr. Satan
1938 · Tim Garnett
The Dark Stairway
1938 · Inspector Clarke
The Man Who Made Diamonds
1937 · Ben
You Live and Learn
1937 · Sam Brooks
Transatlantic Trouble
1937 · Lewis
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