James Cagney

**James Francis Cagney, Jr.** (; July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor, dancer and movie director. He had many roles in his long career. In 1942, he won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in _Yankee Doodle Dandy_.

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 in the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. Orson Welles said he might have been the best actor ever.

## Movies

|Year|Film|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1930|_Sinners' Holiday_|Harry Delano|Film debut|
|_The Doorway to Hell_|Steve Mileaway||||
|rowspan="5"|1931|_Blonde Crazy_|Bert Harris||
|_Smart Money_|Jack|The only film starring both Edward G. Robinson and Cagney|||
|_The Millionaire_|Schofield, Insurance Salesman||||
|_The Public Enemy_|Tom Powers|The movie along with his character and voice was used in The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios|||
|_Other Men's Women_|Ed "Eddie" Bailey|Originally Titled: "The Steel Highway"|||
|rowspan="3"|1932|_Winner Take All_|Jim "Jimmy" Kane|Boxing film|
|_The Crowd Roars_|Joe Greer|Automobile racing film|||
|_Taxi!_|Matt Nolan||||
|rowspan="5"|1933|_Lady Killer_|Dan Quigley||
|_Footlight Parade_|Chester Kent|Musical film with dancing; like The Public Enemy, this film was also featured in The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios|||
|_The Mayor of Hell_|Richard "Patsy" Gargan||||
|_Picture Snatcher_|Danny Kean|Newspaper photographer|||
|_Hard to Handle_|Myron C. "Lefty" Merrill||||
|rowspan="4"|1934|_The St. Louis Kid_|Eddie Kennedy||
|_Here Comes the Navy_|Chester "Chesty" J. O'Conner||||
|_He Was Her Man_|Flicker Hayes, a.k.a. Jerry Allen||||
|_Jimmy the Gent_|"Jimmy" Corrigan|The first of two films with Bette Davis|||
|rowspan="5"|1935|_A Midsummer Night's Dream_|Nick Bottom||
|_The Irish in Us_|Danny O'Hara||||
|_G Men_|"Brick" Davis||||
|_Devil Dogs of the Air_|Thomas Jefferson "Tommy" O'Toole||||
|_Frisco Kid_|Bat Morgan||||
|rowspan="2"|1936|_Great Guy_|Johnny "Red" Cave||
|_Ceiling Zero_|Dizzy Davis||||
|1937|_Something to Sing About_|Terrence "Terry" Rooney|stage name of Thadeus McGillicuddy||
|rowspan="2"|1938|_Angels with Dirty Faces_|Rocky Sullivan|New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor|
|_Boy Meets Girl_|Robert Law||||
|rowspan="3"|1939|_The Roaring Twenties_|Eddie Bartlett||
|_Each Dawn I Die_|Frank Ross||||
|_The Oklahoma Kid_|Jim Kincaid||||
|rowspan="3"|1940|_City for Conquest_|Danny Kenny (Young Samson)||
|_Torrid Zone_|Nick "Nicky" Butler||||
|_The Fighting 69th_|Jerry Plunkett||||
|rowspan="2"|1941|_The Strawberry Blonde_|T.L "Biff" Grimes||
|_The Bride Came C.O.D._|Steve Collins||||
|rowspan="2"|1942|_Captains of the Clouds_|Brian Maclean||
|_Yankee Doodle Dandy_|George M. Cohan|Academy Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|||
|1943|_Johnny Come Lately_|Tom Richards|||
|1945|_Blood on the Sun_|Nick Condon|||
|1947|_13 Rue Madeleine_|Robert Emmett "Bob" Sharkey a.k.a. Gabriel Chavat|||
|1948|_The Time of Your Life_|Joseph T. (who observes people)|||
|1949|_White Heat_|Arthur "Cody" Jarrett|||
|rowspan="2"|1950|_The West Point Story_|Elwin "Bix" Bixby||
|_Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye_|Ralph Cotter||||
|1951|_Come Fill the Cup_|Lew Marsh|||
|1952|_What Price Glory?_|Capt. Flagg|||
|1953|_A Lion Is in the Streets_|Hank Martin|||
|rowspan="4"|1955|_Mister Roberts_|Capt. Morton||
|_The Seven Little Foys_|George M. Cohan||||
|_Love Me or Leave Me_|Martin Snyder|Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor|||
|_Run for Cover_|Matt Dow||||
|rowspan="2"|1956|_These Wilder Years_|Steve Bradford||
|_Tribute to a Bad Man_|Jeremy Rodock||||
|rowspan="2"|1957|_Man of a Thousand Faces_|Lon Chaney||
|_Short Cut to Hell_|Himself in the Pre-Credit Scene (Uncredited)|Director only|||
|rowspan="2"|1959|_Never Steal Anything Small_|Jake MacIllaney||
|_Shake Hands with the Devil_|Sean Lenihan||||
|rowspan="1"|1960|_The Gallant Hours_|Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey||
|1961|_One, Two, Three_|C.R. MacNamara|Nominated — Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor||
|rowspan="1"|1968|_Arizona Bushwhackers_|Narrator||
|1981|_Ragtime_|Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo|||

## Television

|Year|Show|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="1"|1956|_Soldier from the Wars Returning_|George Bridgeman|Aired on NBC on September 10, 1956, in the first episode of Season 6 of Robert Montgomery Presents|
|rowspan="1"|1960|_What's My Line?_|Mystery Guest|Aired on CBS on May 15, 1960|
|rowspan="1"|1966|_The Ballad of Smokey the Bear_|Big Bear/Narrator|Aired on NBC on November 24, 1966|
|rowspan="1"|1974|_AFI Life Achievement Award_: A Tribute to James Cagney''|Honoree/Keynote Speaker||
|rowspan="1"|1984|_Terrible Joe Moran_|Joe Moran (Final role)||

## Radio

|Year|Program|Episode/source|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1942|_Screen Guild Players_|_Yankee Doodle Dandy_|
|1948|_Suspense_|_Love's Lovely Counterfeit_|
|1948|_Suspense_|_No Escape_|
|1952|_Family Theater_|_The Red Head_|

## Other websites

- FBI Records: The Vault - James Cagney  at fbi.gov
- Photographs and literature
- James Cagney in the 1900 US Census , 1905 NY Census , 1910 US Census , 1920 US Census , 1930 US Census , and the Social Security Death Index .

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office**: 6th President of the Screen Actors Guild
- **term start**: 1942
- **term end**: 1944
- **predecessor**: Edward Arnold (actor), Edward Arnold
- **successor**: George Murphy


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: James Cagney
- **image**: James cagney promo photo (cropped, centered).jpg
- **caption**: Cagney,
- **birth name**: James Francis Cagney
- **birth place**: New York City, U.S.
- **death place**: Stanford, New York, U.S.
- **resting place**: Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York), Gate of Heaven Cemetery
- **years active**: 1919–1961; 1981, 1984
- **children**: 2
- **party**: Democratic Party (United States), Democratic (1934–1948)
Republican Party (United States), Republican (1948–1986)
- **relatives**: Harry Cagney (brother)
Edward Cagney (brother)
 William Cagney (brother)
Jeanne Cagney (sister)