James Cagney
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Highest Rated: 100% Footlight Parade (1933)

Lowest Rated: 43% Johnny Come Lately (1943)

Birthday: Jul 17, 1899

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

The American gangster film, and the output of Warner Bros. in its most influential decade, would be unimaginable without the contributions of James Cagney. One of talking pictures' first generation of actors, Cagney forever romanticized the figures of the criminal and the con artist with his jittery physical dynamism and breakneck staccato vocal patterns.

Highest rated movies

100% Captains of the Clouds

100% The Strawberry Blonde

100% The Roaring Twenties

100% Angels With Dirty Faces

100% Ceiling Zero

100% Footlight Parade

100% The Public Enemy

94% White Heat

Photos

CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS, James Cagney, 1942 EACH DAWN I DIE, James Cagney, 1939 COME FILL THE CUP, James Cagney, 1951 THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D., James Cagney, Bette Davis, 1941 COME FILL THE CUP, James Cagney slaps Gig Young to sober him up in the shower, 1951 GALLANT HOURS, James Cagney, Dmiral William F. Halsey, 1960, candid TORRID ZONE, Ann Sheridan, James Cagney, 1940 TORRID ZONE, Ann Sheridan, James Cagney, 1940 13 RUE MADELEINE, James Cagney, Annabella, 1947, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved 13 RUE MADELEINE, James Cagney, 1947, TM and copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved BLOOD ON THE SUN, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, 1945 ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, James Cagney, 1938 ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, from left, Ann Sheridan, James Cagney, 1938 ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, James Cagney, 1938 BLONDE CRAZY, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, 1931 BLOOD ON THE SUN, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, 1945 BLOOD ON THE SUN, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, 1945 THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D., Bette Davis, James Cagney, 1941 CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS, James Cagney (standing on airplane) filming a scene on set, 1942 CAPTAINS OF THE CLOUDS, James Cagney, 1942

Filmography

Movies

Credit No Score Yet No Score Yet Movie Tough Guys Unknown (Character) - 1991 No Score Yet No Score Yet Terrible Joe Moran Joe Moran (Character) - 1984 84% 76% Ragtime Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo (Character) - 1981 No Score Yet No Score Yet Busby Berkeley - The Busby Berkeley Disc Unknown (Character) - 1970 88% 88% One, Two, Three C.R. MacNamara (Character) - 1961 No Score Yet 61% The Gallant Hours Fleet Adm. Wiliam F. Halsey Jr. (Character) - 1960 75% 57% Shake Hands With the Devil Sean Lenihan (Character) - 1959 No Score Yet No Score Yet Never Steal Anything Small Jake MacIllaney (Character) - 1959 80% 78% Man of a Thousand Faces Lon Chaney (Character) - 1957 No Score Yet No Score Yet Short Cut to Hell Director - 1957 No Score Yet 53% These Wilder Years Steve Bradford (Character) - 1956 No Score Yet 48% Tribute to a Bad Man Jeremy Rodock (Character) - 1956 93% 85% Mister Roberts Capt. Morton (Character) - 1955 No Score Yet 70% Run for Cover Matt Dow (Character) - 1955 71% 75% Love Me or Leave Me Martin Snyder (Character) - 1955 No Score Yet 61% The Seven Little Foys George M. Cohan (Character) - 1955 67% 25% A Lion Is in the Streets Hank Martin (Character) - 1953 No Score Yet 30% Gun Fury The Villain (Character) - 1953 63% 39% What Price Glory? Capt. Flagg (Character) - 1952 No Score Yet 25% Starlift Self - 1951 No Score Yet 62% Come Fill the Cup Lew Marsh (Character) - 1951 No Score Yet 56% The West Point Story Elwin "Bix" Bixby (Character) - 1950 No Score Yet 72% Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Ralph Cotter (Character) - 1950 94% 93% White Heat Arthur "Cody" Jarrett (Character) - 1949 No Score Yet 53% The Time of Your Life Joseph T. (Character) - 1948 83% 54% 13 rue Madeleine Robert Emmett "Bob" Sharkey (Character) - 1946 80% 35% Blood on the Sun Nick Condon (Character) - 1945 No Score Yet No Score Yet Battle Stations Narrator - 1944 43% 54% Johnny Come Lately Tom Richards (Character) - 1943 No Score Yet No Score Yet You, John Jones! John Jones (Character) - 1943 100% 48% Captains of the Clouds Brian MacLean (Character) - 1942 91% 83% Yankee Doodle Dandy George M. Cohan (Character) - 1942 100% 75% The Strawberry Blonde Biff Grimes (Character) - 1941 No Score Yet 63% The Bride Came C.O.D. Steve Collins (Character) - 1941 71% 57% The Fighting 69th Pvt. Jerry Plunkett (Character) - 1940 80% 74% City for Conquest Danny Kenny (Character) - 1940 No Score Yet 60% Torrid Zone Nick `'Nicky'` Butler (Character) - 1940 100% 89% The Roaring Twenties Eddie Bartlett (Character) - 1939 50% 71% Each Dawn I Die Frank Ross (Character) - 1939 No Score Yet 48% The Oklahoma Kid Jim Kincaid (Character) - 1939 70% 45% Boy Meets Girl Robert Law (Character) - 1938 100% 92% Angels With Dirty Faces William "Rocky" Sullivan (Character) - 1938 83% 29% Something to Sing About Terrence "Terry" Rooney (Character) - 1937 No Score Yet 37% Great Guy Johnny "Red" Cave (Character) - 1936 No Score Yet 18% The Irish in Us Danny O'Hara (Character) - 1935 No Score Yet 68% G-Men Brick Davis (Character) - 1935 No Score Yet 29% Frisco Kid Bat Morgan (Character) - 1935 92% 62% A Midsummer Night's Dream Bottom, the Weaver (Character) - 1935 No Score Yet 92% Devil Dogs of the Air Thomas Jefferson "Tommy" O'Toole (Character) - 1935 100% 67% Ceiling Zero Dizzy Davis (Character) - 1935 No Score Yet 20% The St. Louis Kid Eddie Kennedy (Character) - 1934 83% 36% Here Comes the Navy Chesty O'Conner (Character) - 1934 No Score Yet 64% Jimmy the Gent `'Jimmy'` Corrigan (Character) - 1934 No Score Yet 10% He Was Her Man Flicker Hayes aka Jerry Allen (Character) - 1934 No Score Yet 44% Hard to Handle Myron C. `'Lefty'` Merrill (Character) - 1933 No Score Yet 71% Lady Killer Dan Quigley (Character) - 1933 100% 83% Footlight Parade Chester Kent (Character) - 1933 No Score Yet 57% The Mayor of Hell Richard "Patsy" Gargan (Character) - 1933 No Score Yet 64% Picture Snatcher Danny Kean (Character) - 1933 No Score Yet No Score Yet Winner Take All Jim `'Jimmy'` Kane (Character) - 1932 83% 48% The Crowd Roars Joe Greer (Character) - 1932 No Score Yet 88% Taxi! Matt Nolan (Character) - 1932 No Score Yet 46% Other Men's Women Ed `'Eddie'` Bailey (Character) - 1931 100% 85% The Public Enemy Tom Powers (Character) - 1931 No Score Yet 73% Blonde Crazy Bert Harris (Character) - 1931 No Score Yet 48% Smart Money Jack (Character) - 1931 No Score Yet 67% The Millionaire Schofield (Character) - 1931 No Score Yet No Score Yet Sinner's Holiday Harry Delano (Character) - 1930 No Score Yet 50% The Doorway to Hell Steve Mileaway (Character) - 1930

TV

Credit No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1960