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Last year, when the Trustees of the American Film Institute nominated a candidate to receive our first Life Achievement Award, their choice fell appropriately, perhaps almost inevitably, on John Ford. With a similar conviction of unavoidable rightness, this year they have selected James Cagney. Unchallengeably, his work fulfills the prime criteria of the award: that it must have, in some way, advanced the film art, and that it be acknowledged alike by the general public, the critical
Mar 31, 1986 · James Cagney, whose feisty, finger-jabbing portrayals of the big city tough guy helped create a new breed of Hollywood superstar--but won his only Oscar playing a song-and-dance man--died Easter ...
Mar 31, 1986 · James Francis Cagney Jr. was born July 17, 1899, on Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up there and in the Yorkville section. His father was of Irish descent, a bartender and, briefly, a saloon ...
Here Comes The Navy (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Looks Too Much Like A Casket James Cagney, introduced as grimy Navy yard worker Chesty, becomes a dance-hall dandy in the next scene, personally financing the trophy he intends to win with spikey girlfriend Gladys (Dorothy Tree), Lloyd Bacon directing from a crafty original screenplay by Warner Bros. stalwarts Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, in Here Comes The Navy, 1934.
Szülei: James Francis Cagney, Sr. (1875–1918) és Carolyn Elizabeth Nelson (1877–1945) voltak. 1922–1986 között Frances Cagney (1899–1994) volt a felesége. Testvére, William Cagney (1905–1988) amerikai filmproducer és színész.
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. In his first performing role, he danced dressed […]
James Cagney was an American actor. He was the second of seven children born to James Francis Cagney, Sr. and Carolyn Nelson. He attended Columbia College, but had to drop out to take up a job after his father’s death. After many odd jobs, including working as a scenery boy, he landed a role in a pantomime.
