James Cagney
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James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles, including the career-launching The Public Enemy.[1]He was an accomplished vaudeville performer, won an Oscar for Best Actor[2] for his portrayal of a song-and-dance man in 1942 for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy, but is still best known for his 'tough guy' roles [3]
Like James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to audiences that they usually referred to him as "Jimmy" Cagney — a billing never found on any of his films.[4]
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Cagney eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.[5]
Cagney was among Stanley Kubrick's favorite actors[6] and was declared by Orson Welles as "maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera."[7] Warner Brothers would arrange private screenings of Cagney films for Winston Churchill.[8]
He earned the nickname The Professional Againster and walked out on major studio Warner Brothers numerous times, each time coming back on improved personal and artistic terms. He was president of the Screen Actors Guild for two terms, and made numerous morale-boosting tours of troops during the Second World War.
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[edit] Filmography
[edit] Television
- The Ballad of Smokey the Bear (1966) (voice) (narrator)
- Terrible Joe Moran (1984)
[edit] Notes
- ^ McGilligan, Patrick (1975). Cagney: The Actor as Auteur. New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc.. ISBN 0-498-01462-2.
- ^ Academy Awards database
- ^ McGilligan, p11
- ^
- ^ AFI Top 100 list (registration required)
- ^ Lobrutto, Vincent (April 1999). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
- ^ YouTube - Parkinson - Orson Welles Part 4
- ^ Philip French's Screen Legends
[edit] References
- Cagney, James [1976]. Cagney by Cagney. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-52026-3.
- Gallagher, Brian. "Some Historical Reflections on the Paradoxes of Stardom in the American Film Industry, 1910-1960: Part Six". Retrieved on 2008-03-03.
- McGilligan, Patrick (1975). Cagney: The Actor as Auteur. New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc.. ISBN 0-498-01462-2.
- Speck, Gregory (June 1986), "From Tough Guy to Dandy: James Cagney", The World and I 1: 319. Retrieved on 1 November 2007
- Warren, Doug; Cagney, James [1983] (1986). Cagney: The Authorized Biography, Mass Market Edition, New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-90207-7.
[edit] External links
- James Cagney at the Internet Broadway Database
- James Cagney at the Internet Movie Database
- James Cagney at the TCM Movie Database
- James Cagney at Allmovie
