James Stephenson (Actor)

Reviews of James Stephenson Movies

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Movies starring James Stephenson have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.

The Sea Hawk - released in 1940 - is James Stephenson's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 108 reviews.

The lowest rated film from James Stephenson is Murder in the Air - released in 1940 - with a score of 40% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

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.

James Stephenson has acted in films with Stuart Holmes, John Ridgely, Glen Cavender and John Hamilton.

James Stephenson has worked with these film directors: William Clemens, Michael Curtiz, Edmund Goulding and Lewis Seiler.