James Albert Stephenson (14 April 1889 – 29 July 1941) was a
British actor. The son of chemist and druggist John G. Stephenson, and his wife, Emma, Stephenson grew up in the
West Riding of Yorkshire and
Burnley,
Lancashire, with his brothers, Alan and Norman. He became a bank clerk and later had a career as a merchant. In the 1930s, he emigrated to the United States and took U.S. nationality in 1938.