James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor, dancer and movie director who had many roles in his long career, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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| Born | James Francis Cagney Jr. July 17, 1899 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | March 30, 1986 (aged 86) Stanford, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Gate of Heaven Cemetery |
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| Years active | 1919–1984 |
| Spouse(s) | Frances Vernon (m. 1922) |
| Children | 2 (adoptive)[1] |
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| 6th President of the Screen Actors Guild | |
| In office 1942–1944 | |
| Preceded by | Edward Arnold |
| Succeeded by | George Murphy |
Like James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to the public that they usually referred to him as "Jimmy" Cagney. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Cagney eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.
James Cagney Media
Cagney and Gloria Stuart (later of 1997's Titanic) in 1934's Here Comes the Navy. Cagney played sailors or naval officers several times.
Cagney and Edward Woods in The Public Enemy (1931)
Lobby card for Taxi! (1932)
Loretta Young and Cagney in Taxi! (1932)
David Landau, Loretta Young and Cagney in Taxi! (1932)
Along with George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart, all of whom were Warner Bros. actors, Cagney defined what a movie gangster was. In G Men (1935), however, he played a lawyer who joins the FBI.
Cagney, Ann Dvorak and Joan Blondell in The Crowd Roars (1932)
Cagney and Olivia de Havilland in The Irish in Us (1935)
With close friend Pat O'Brien in Here Comes the Navy (1934), their first of nine films together
One, Two, Three theatrical trailer
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References
Other websites
Media related to James Cagney at Wikimedia Commons
- James Cagney on IMDb
- James Cagney at the TCM Movie Database
- James Cagney at the Internet Broadway Database
- James Cagney's Thug Life Fan site with hundreds of photos
- The New York Times (March 31, 1986): "James Cagney Is Dead at 86; Master of Pugnacious Grace", by Peter B. Flint
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