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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 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)

International Squadron
as Squadron Leader Charles Wyatt

Shining Victory
as Dr. Paul Venner

Flight from Destiny
as Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens

The Letter
as Howard Joyce

South of Suez
as Inspector Thornton

A Dispatch from Reuters
as Carew

The Sea Hawk
as Abbott

River's End
as McDowell

Murder in the Air
as Joe Garvey

Calling Philo Vance
as Philo Vance
Wolf of New York
as Hiram Rogers

We Are Not Alone
as Sir William Clintock

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Sir Thomas Egerton

The Monroe Doctrine
as Senor De La Torre

Espionage Agent
as Dr. Anton Rader

The Old Maid
as Jim Ralston

Beau Geste
as Major Henri de Beaujolais

Sons of Liberty
as Colonel Tillman

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as British Military Intelligence Agent

Wanted by Scotland Yard
as Fingers

On Trial
as Gerald Trask

The Adventures of Jane Arden
as Dr. George Vanders

Secret Service of the Air
as Jim Cameron

Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Dr. Mansfield

King of the Underworld
as Bill Stevens

Devil's Island
as Col. Armand Lucien

Heart of the North
as Stephen Gore

Nancy Drew… Detective
as Challon

Boy Meets Girl
as Major Thompson

Cowboy from Brooklyn
as Prof. Landis

White Banners
as Thomas Bradford

When Were You Born
as Phillip Corey
Mr. Satan
as Tim Garnett
The Dark Stairway
as Inspector Clarke
The Man Who Made Diamonds
as Ben
You Live and Learn
as Sam Brooks
Transatlantic Trouble
as Lewis