
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)
Фильмография

Морской ястреб
1940

Частная жизнь Елизаветы и Эссекса
1939

Признание нацистского шпиона
1939

Secret Service of the Air
1939

Почта от Рейтера
1940

Письмо
1940

We Are Not Alone
1939

Король преступного мира
1939

Красавчик Жест
1939

Heart of the North
1938

When Were You Born
1938

Devil's Island
1939

Calling Philo Vance
1940

Murder in the Air
1940

Espionage Agent
1939

Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939

The Adventures of Jane Arden
1939

Старая дева
1939

Nancy Drew… Detective
1938

Flight from Destiny
1941

Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938

Парень встречает девушку
1938

South of Suez
1940

Shining Victory
1941

International Squadron
1941

The Monroe Doctrine
1939

White Banners
1938

River's End
1940

On Trial
1939

Sons of Liberty
1939

Wanted by Scotland Yard
1939