ACTOR

James Stephenson

1889 - 1941

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James Albert Stephenson (14 April 1889 – 29 July 1941) was a British stage and film actor. He took up film acting at 49 and after a typically slow start delivered an Academy Award-nominated performance in the William Wyler-directed melodrama, The Letter in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Stephenson has received more than 139,812 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). James Stephenson is the 8,047th most popular actor (down from 7,539th in 2019), the 5,625th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,205th in 2019) and the 905th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Stephenson ranks 8,047 out of 13,578. Before him are Madge Kennedy, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Wanda Hawley, Laurent Lucas, Beatrice Rosen, and Bobby Deol. After him are Dean Winters, Mercedes Mason, Jyoti Amge, Crystal Reed, Will Forte, and Karla Souza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, James Stephenson ranks 298. Before him are Hugo Wieslander, George Hutson, Robert Benchley, Moroni Olsen, George S. Kaufman, and Annie Speirs. After him are George Walsh, Dorothy Phillips, James Wordie, Vera C. Bushfield, Franklin Pangborn, and Ernest Truex. Among people deceased in 1941, James Stephenson ranks 214. Before him are Leonid Leonidov, Helmut Hamann, Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, Ira Davenport, Richard Carle, and William Gibbs McAdoo. After him are Carrie Derick, Élie Blanchard, Charles Murray, Gus Kahn, Peggy Shannon, and Helen Morgan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Stephenson ranks 5,625 out of 8,785. Before him are Fred Yates (1884), Dinny Pails (1921), Stevie Chalmers (1935), Anna Löwenstein (1951), Alexandra Bastedo (1946), and Gavin McInnes (1970). After him are Alan Smith (1980), Samuel Daniel (1562), Katie Leung (1987), Kate Mosse (1961), Shashi Tharoor (1956), and Tim Henman (1974).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, James Stephenson ranks 905. Before him are Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1983), John McEnery (1943), Rupert Evans (1976), Emily Bergl (1975), Arthur Lowe (1915), and Alexandra Bastedo (1946). After him are Katie Leung (1987), David Oyelowo (1976), Sean Biggerstaff (1983), Marc Warren (1967), Jane Leeves (1961), and Jack Huston (1982).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Letter
Howard Joyce
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Nov 21st 19407.3 / 10
The Sea Hawk
Abbott
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Aug 10th 19407.1 / 10
Calling Philo Vance
Philo Vance
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Feb 3rd 19405.8 / 10