James Cagney

James Francis Cagney (New York City, 1899 - July 17, Stanfordville, New York, 30 March 1986) was an American filmactor. His parents were of Irish and Norwegiandescent.

He worked in vaudeville and on Broadwayin the theatre, and when Warner Bros. bought the film rights for the piece in Penny Arcade where he played, they took Cagney and his colleague Joan Blondell from the theatre to the silver screen in sinner's Holiday (1930).

Cagney played in many films, and was nicknamed the hard boy by a series of crime films like The Public Enemy (1931), Blonde Crazy (1931) and Hard to Handle (1933).He also played a number of "softer" roles, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), an Oscar-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), White Heat (1949) ("Made it, Ma! Top of the world! "), and Mister Roberts (1955). He was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and served as President from 1942-1944.

Cagneys's last film role was in the 1981 film Ragtime, the end of a career that included more than 70 films, even though the last had been already in 1961 for RagtimeBilly Wilders , in One, Two, Three. During his absence be Cagney all roles to be able to spend the time to learn to paint (in which he was very good) and maintaining his farm in Stanfordville in New York.

In 1974 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American film Institute, and he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984 by his friend Ronald Reagan.

After 1979 his health quickly went backward, and he suffered from diabetes. He died of a heart attack at the age of 86. He is buried in Hawthorne, New York.

He married in 1922 with the dancer Frances Sergey "Billie" Vernon (1899-1994), they remained 64 years together. They adopted a son, James Cagney, Jr., and a daughter, Cathleen "Casey" Cagney. ==Filmography[ Edit] == The movie trailer of James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)*Sinners ' Holiday (1930)
 * The Doorway to Hell (1930)
 * Other men's Women (1931)
 * The Public Enemy (1931)
 * The Millionaire (1931)
 * Smart Money (1931)
 * Blonde Crazy (1931)
 * How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: ' Practice Shots ' (1931) (short subject)
 * Taxi! (1932)
 * The Crowd Roars (1932)
 * Winner Take All (1932)
 * Hard to Handle (1933)
 * Picture Snatcher (1933)
 * The Mayor of Hell (1933)
 * Footlight Parade (1933)
 * Lady Killer (1933)
 * Jimmy the Gent (1934)
 * He Was Her Man (1934)
 * Here Comes the Navy (1934)
 * The Hollywood Gad-About (1934) (short subject)
 * The St. Louis Kid (1934)
 * A Dream Comes True (1935) (short subject)
 * A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935) (short subject)
 * Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)
 * ' G ' Men (1935)
 * The Irish in Us (1935)
 * A Midsummer night's Dream (1935)
 * Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (appears as extra)
 * Frisco Kid (1935)
 * Ceiling Zero (1935)
 * Great Guy (1936)
 * Something to Sing About (1937)
 * For Auld Lang Syne (1938) (short subject)
 * Boy Meets Girl (1938)
 * Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
 * The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
 * Hollywood Hobbies (1939) (short subject)
 * Each Dawn I Die (1939)
 * The Roaring Twenties (1939)
 * The Fighting 69th (1940)
 * Torrid Zone (1940)
 * City for Conquest (1940)
 * The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
 * The Bride Came C.o.d. (1941)
 * Captains of the Clouds (1942)
 * Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
 * You, John Jones (1943) (short subject)
 * Johnny Come Lately (1943)
 * Battlestations (1944) (short subject) (narrator)
 * "Blood on the Sun (1945)
 * 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
 * The Time of Your Life (1948)
 * White Heat (1949)
 * Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
 * The West Point Story (1950)
 * Come Fill the Cup (1951)
 * Star Elevator (1951) (Cameo)
 * What Price Glory (1952)
 * A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
 * Run for Cover (1955)
 * Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
 * The Seven Little Foys (1955)
 * Mister Roberts (1955)
 * Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
 * These Wilder Years (1956)
 * Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
 * Short-Cut to Hell (1957) (in pre-credits sequence) (also director)
 * Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
 * Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
 * The Gallant Hours (1960) (also producer)
 * One, Two, Three (1961)
 * Arizona Bushwhackers (1968) (narrator)
 * Ragtime (1981)