
Known for
Acting
Born
April 13, 1889
Birthplace
Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
July 29, 1941 (aged 52)
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 Os...
1941
as Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
1941
as Dr. Paul Venner
1941
as Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
1940
as Howard Joyce
1940
as Inspector Thornton
1940
as Carew
1940
as Abbott
1940
as McDowell
1940
as Joe Garvey
1940
as Philo Vance
1940
as Hiram Rogers
1939
as Sir William Clintock
1939
as Sir Thomas Egerton
1939
as Senor De La Torre
1939
as Dr. Anton Rader
1939
as Jim Ralston
1939
as Major Henri de Beaujolais
1939
as Colonel Tillman
1939
as British Military Intelligence Agent
1939
as Fingers
1939
as Gerald Trask
1939
as Dr. George Vanders
1939
as Jim Cameron
1939
as Dr. Mansfield
1939
as Bill Stevens