James Stephenson Trailers
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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)
Most Popular James Stephenson Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
01 September 1937
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue.
30 May 1941
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox.
01 April 1939
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
23 January 1940
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
08 February 1941
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society.
23 June 1938
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919.
18 March 1939
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
21 November 1940
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
01 January 1938
“Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.
14 October 1939
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.
19 October 1940
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
24 July 1939
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff.
19 November 1938
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
06 May 1939
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
25 November 1939
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
06 December 1937
“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.
16 August 1939
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
11 November 1939
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
01 June 1940
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow.
03 February 1940
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers.
10 August 1940
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
10 August 1940
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder.
30 September 1939
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
04 March 1939
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
19 April 1939
A safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight.
20 May 1939
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
07 January 1939
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
01 January 1937
Max Miller plays a boxer's manager who fails to get fights for his simple-minded boxer. The manager sets up a scene in an American nightclub whereby his fighter gets the chance to knock down the reigning champion.
16 November 1940
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble.
10 December 1938
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
13 August 1941
The true story of the exploits of the RAF's (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's Air Force) during the early months of 1941 during WWII before America officially entered the war at the end of the year when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the United States.
14 January 1939
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license.
27 August 1938
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant.
02 February 1939
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
18 June 1938
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
