1889-04-13 ( 135 years old ) in Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK
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)
Movies
International Squadron
1941-08-13
Shining Victory
1941-05-30
Flight from Destiny
1941-02-08
The Letter
1940-11-21
South of Suez
1940-11-16
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940-10-19
The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10
River's End
1940-08-10
Murder in the Air
1940-06-01
Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Wolf of New York
1940-01-23
We Are Not Alone
1939-11-25
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939-11-11
The Monroe Doctrine
1939-10-14
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
The Old Maid
1939-08-16
Beau Geste
1939-07-24
Sons of Liberty
1939-05-20
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
Wanted by Scotland Yard
1939-04-19
On Trial
1939-04-01
The Adventures of Jane Arden
1939-03-18
Secret Service of the Air
1939-03-04
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939-02-02
King of the Underworld
1939-01-14
Devil's Island
1939-01-07
Heart of the North
1938-12-10
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938-11-19
Boy Meets Girl
1938-08-27
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938-07-09
White Banners
1938-06-23
When Were You Born
1938-06-18
Mr. Satan
1938-02-01
The Dark Stairway
1938-01-01
The Man Who Made Diamonds
1937-12-06
You Live and Learn
1937-09-01
Transatlantic Trouble
1937-01-01
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