Editing Philo Vance (section)

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{{Infobox character
| name = Philo Vance
| series = 
| image = File:E. M. Jackson (Elbert McGran Jackson) - Philo Vance, 1933.jpg
| caption = E. M. Jackson illustrated the first appearance of ''[[The Kennel Murder Case]]'' for ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' (November 1932 – February 1933)
| first = ''[[The Benson Murder Case]]''
| last = ''[[The Winter Murder Case]]''
| creator = [[S. S. Van Dine]]
| portrayer = [[William Powell]]<br />[[Basil Rathbone]]<br />[[Warren William]]<br />[[Paul Lukas]]<br />[[Edmund Lowe]]<br />[[Wilfrid Hyde-White]]<br />[[Grant Richards (actor)|Grant Richards]]<br />[[James Stephenson (actor)|James Stephenson]] <br />[[William Wright (actor)|William Wright]]<br />[[Alan Curtis (American actor)|Alan Curtis]]<br />[[José Ferrer]]<br />[[John Emery (actor)|John Emery]]<br />[[Jackson Beck]]<br />[[Giorgio Albertazzi]]<br />[[Jiří Dvořák]] 
| gender = Male
| occupation = [[Private detective]]
| nationality = [[Americans|American]]
}}

'''Philo Vance''' is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 [[crime novel]]s by [[S. S. Van Dine]] in the 1920s and '30s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films, and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish—even foppish—[[dandy]], a New York ''bon vivant'' possessing a highly intellectual bent. "S. S. Van Dine" was the [[pen name]] of Willard Huntington Wright, a prominent art critic who initially sought to conceal his authorship of the novels. Van Dine was also a fictional character in the books, a sort of [[John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)|Dr. Watson]] figure who accompanied Vance and chronicled his exploits.