Landers Stevens
Actor (1877-1940) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 63
John Landers Stevens (1877-1940) was an American stage and film actor. A character actor he appeared in prominent screen roles in the early 1920s before switching to smaller supporting parts, often authority figures, in the following decade.
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Abe Lincoln in IllinoisFilm, 1940Minor Role (uncredited)
Wildcat BusFilm, 1940Doctor (uncredited)1939
20,000 Men a YearFilm, Professor1938
KentuckyFilm, Man at RAce Track1937
Bill Cracks DownFilm, Dr. Colcord
Step Lively, Jeeves!Film, 1937Party Guest (uncredited)1936
Charlie Chan's SecretFilm, Coroner1935
DinkyFilm, Standish's Associate1934
Bachelor BaitFilm, Mr. Wells (uncredited)1932
Hell DiversFilm, Admiral1931
Guilty HandsFilm, Chief of Police Bill Mott (uncredited)
Little CaesarFilm, 1931Alvin McClure - Crime Commissioner (uncredited)1929
The Trial of Mary DuganFilm, Dr. Welcome1877Born17 February 1877Known for
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Citizen Kane 1941
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
The Public Enemy 1931
Manhattan Melodrama 1934
The Most Dangerous Game 1932
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Christy Cabanne Directed We Who Are About to Die (1937)
Lamar Trotti Wrote Slave Ship and Kentucky
George Ernest Also in Dinky and Wife, Doctor and Nurse
James C. Morton Also in Slave Ship and Kentucky
Vinton Hayworth Also in Cross-Country Romance (1940)
Pandro S. Berman Produced Bachelor Bait (1934)
Frank Jenks Also in We Who Are About to Die and Golden Boy
Warner Baxter Also in Slave Ship and Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Karen Morley Also in Thunder in the Night and Kentucky
Arthur Edmund Carewe Also in Thunder in the Night (1935)
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Also in Bill Cracks Down and Kentucky
Polly Ann Young Also in Thunder in the Night (1935)
Rowland V. Lee Directed A Thousand to One (1920)
Minna Gombell Also in Slave Ship and Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Stymie Beard Also in Slave Ship and Kentucky
Clay Clement Also in The Personality Kid and Dinky
Dave Morris Also in 20,000 Men a Year (1939)
DeWitt Clarke Jennings Also in We Who Are About to Die and Slave Ship
Jonathan Hale Also in Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
Bobs Watson Also in Kentucky (1938)
Lionel Pape Also in Slave Ship and Cross-Country Romance
Margaret Irving Also in Wife, Doctor and Nurse and Kentucky- Lou Breslow Wrote High Tension and 20,000 Men a Year
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He was the brother of the journalist Ashton Stevens and the father of film director George Stevens. He appeared in the 1936 musical film Swing Time directed by his son. His final screen appearance was in Citizen Kane.
