James Stephenson
- Recitazione
- 13 aprile 1889 · Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
- 29 luglio 1941
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Il diavolo con le ali · Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
- Shining Victory · Dr. Paul Venner
- Flight from Destiny · Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
- Ombre malesi · Howard Joyce
- South of Suez · Inspector Thornton
- A Dispatch from Reuters · Carew
- Lo sparviero del mare · Abbott
- River's End · McDowell
- Murder in the Air · Joe Garvey
- Calling Philo Vance · Philo Vance
- Wolf of New York · Hiram Rogers
- Non siamo soli · Sir William Clintock
- Il conte di Essex · Sir Thomas Egerton
- The Monroe Doctrine · Senor De La Torre
- Espionage Agent · Dr. Anton Rader
- Il grande amore · Jim Ralston
- Beau Geste · Major Henri de Beaujolais
- Sons of Liberty · Colonel Tillman
- Confessioni di una spia nazista · British Military Intelligence Agent
- Wanted by Scotland Yard · Fingers
- On Trial · Gerald Trask
- The Adventures of Jane Arden · Dr. George Vanders
- Secret Service of the Air · Jim Cameron
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown · Dr. Mansfield
- King of the Underworld · Bill Stevens
- Devil's Island · Col. Armand Lucien
- Heart of the North · Stephen Gore
- Nancy Drew… Detective · Challon
- Boy Meets Girl · Major Thompson
- Cowboy from Brooklyn · Prof. Landis
- White Banners · Thomas Bradford
- When Were You Born · Phillip Corey
- Mr. Satan · Tim Garnett
- The Dark Stairway · Inspector Clarke
- The Man Who Made Diamonds · Ben
- You Live and Learn · Sam Brooks
- Transatlantic Trouble · Lewis