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TV Show List
Flight from Destiny

as Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens

1941
The Letter

as Howard Joyce

1940
The Sea Hawk

as Abbott

1940
Murder in the Air

as Joe Garvey

1940
River's End

as McDowell

1940
Calling Philo Vance

as Philo Vance

1940
South of Suez

as Inspector Thornton

1940
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

as Sir Thomas Egerton

1939
King of the Underworld

as Bill Stevens

1939
Devil's Island

as Col. Armand Lucien

1939
Beau Geste

as Major Henri de Beaujolais

1939
The Old Maid

as Jim Ralston

1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as British Military Intelligence Agent

1939
Espionage Agent

as Dr. Anton Rader

1939
Sons of Liberty

as Colonel Tillman

1939
The Monroe Doctrine

as Senor De La Torre

1939
Torchy Blane in Chinatown

as Dr. Mansfield

1939
We Are Not Alone

as Sir William Clintock

1939
Secret Service of the Air

as Jim Cameron

1939
The Adventures of Jane Arden

as Dr. George Vanders

1939
Nancy Drew… Detective

as Challon

1938
Heart of the North

as Stephen Gore

1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn

as Prof. Landis

1938
When Were You Born

as Phillip Corey

1938
James Stephenson James Stephenson

Birthday

1889-04-14

Place of Birth

Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK

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)
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