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