Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-04-13 (52 years old)
Deathday
1941-07-29
Place of Birth
Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known As
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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 lifeti...
1939
as Col. Armand Lucien
1940
as Abbott
1939
as Bill Stevens
1939
as Major Henri de Beaujolais
1939
as Jim Ralston
1939
as Sir Thomas Egerton
1938
as Challon
1940
as Howard Joyce
1940
as Joe Garvey
1939
as Dr. Anton Rader
1939
as Senor De La Torre
1941
as Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
1940
as Hiram Rogers
1939
as Jim Cameron
1939
as Gerald Trask
1940
as McDowell
1940
as Philo Vance
1939
as Dr. George Vanders
1938
as Phillip Corey
1941
as Dr. Paul Venner
1939
as Colonel Tillman
1938
as Thomas Bradford
1939
as Fingers
1938
as Prof. Landis
1938
as Major Thompson
1940
as Inspector Thornton
1937
as Sam Brooks
1939
as British Military Intelligence Agent
1939
as Sir William Clintock
1938
as Stephen Gore
1939
as Dr. Mansfield
1940
as Carew
1937
as Lewis
1938
as Inspector Clarke
1937
1941
as Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
1938
as Tim Garnett
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