Birthday
1889/04/13
Day of death
1941/07/29 (52 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also know 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 Will...Read more
(1939) Devil's Island
as Col. Armand Lucien
(1940) The Sea Hawk
as Abbott
(1939) King of the Underworld
as Bill Stevens
(1939) Beau Geste
as Major Henri de Beaujolais
(1939) The Old Maid
as Jim Ralston
(1939) The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Sir Thomas Egerton
(1938) Nancy Drew… Detective
as Challon
(1940) The Letter
as Howard Joyce
(1940) Murder in the Air
as Joe Garvey
(1939) Espionage Agent
as Dr. Anton Rader
(1939) The Monroe Doctrine
as Senor De La Torre
(1941) Flight from Destiny
as Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
(1940) Wolf of New York
as Hiram Rogers
(1939) Secret Service of the Air
as Jim Cameron
(1939) On Trial
as Gerald Trask
(1940) River's End
as McDowell
(1940) Calling Philo Vance
as Philo Vance
(1939) The Adventures of Jane Arden
as Dr. George Vanders
(1938) When Were You Born
as Phillip Corey
(1941) Shining Victory
as Dr. Paul Venner
(1939) Sons of Liberty
as Colonel Tillman
(1938) White Banners
as Thomas Bradford
(1939) Wanted by Scotland Yard
as Fingers
(1938) Cowboy from Brooklyn
as Prof. Landis
(1938) Boy Meets Girl
as Major Thompson
(1940) South of Suez
as Inspector Thornton
(1937) You Live and Learn
as Sam Brooks
(1939) Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as British Military Intelligence Agent
(1939) We Are Not Alone
as Sir William Clintock
(1938) Heart of the North
as Stephen Gore
(1939) Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Dr. Mansfield
(1940) A Dispatch from Reuters
as Carew
(1937) Transatlantic Trouble
as Lewis
(1938) The Dark Stairway
as Inspector Clarke
(1937) The Man Who Made Diamonds
as Ben
(1941) International Squadron
as Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt
(1938) Mr. Satan
as Tim Garnett