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James Cagney

Highest Rated:
100% Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Lowest Rated:
40% What Price Glory (1952)
Birthday:
Jul 17, 1899
Birthplace:
New York, New York, USA
Bio:
With his raspy voice, and staccato vocal inflections James Cagney was one of the brightest stars in American cinema history. The son of an Irish father and a Norwegian mother who lived and worked in New York's Lower Eastside, Cagney did a variety of odd jobs to help support his family, including…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 40% - 100%
Number of Movies: 82
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1930s
  • Actor
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2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1940s
  • Actor
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2008 Mayor Of Hell
  • Actor
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2007 Mission Victory
  • Actor
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2006 Amérique, notre histoire
  • Actor
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2006 G-Men
  • Actor
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2002 Battles of Reverence: World War II
  • Actor
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2001 Hollywood Legends - Humphrey Bogart & James Cagney
  • Actor
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1998 James Cagney Scrapbook
  • Actor
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1997 Vaudeville
  • Director
  • Actor
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1993 Hollywood Remembers - James Cagney - Top of the World
  • Actor
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1981 90% Ragtime
  • NY Police Commissioner Rheinlander
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1981 James Cagney - That Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Actor
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1975 Hooray for Hollywood
  • Actor
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1974 A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - James Cagney
  • Actor
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1967 Arizona Bushwackers
  • Narrator
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1961 94% One, Two, Three
  • C.R. MacNamara
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1960 Gallant Hours
  • Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr.
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1959 Never Steal Anything Small
  • Jake MacIllaney
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1959 60% Shake Hands With the Devil
  • Sean Lenihan
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1957 Man of a Thousand Faces
  • Lon Chaney
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1957 Short Cut to Hell
  • Director
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1956 These Wilder Years
  • Steve Bradford
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1956 Tribute to a Bad Man
  • Jeremy Rodock
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1955 92% Mister Roberts
  • Captain Morion
  • Director
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1955 67% Love Me Or Leave Me
  • Martin "The Gimp" Snyder
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1955 Link in the Chain
  • Actor
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1955 Run for Cover (Colorado)
  • Matt Dow
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1955 Seven Little Foys
  • George M. Cohan
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1953 Lion is in the Streets
  • Hank Martin
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1952 40% What Price Glory
  • Capt. Flagg
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1951 Starlift
  • Himself
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1951 Come Fill the Cup
  • Lew Marsh
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1950 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  • Ralph Cotter
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1950 The West Point Story (Fine and Dandy)
  • Elwin Bixby
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1949 100% White Heat
  • Arthur Cody Jarrett
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1948 The Time of Your Life
  • Joe
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1946 83% 13 Rue Madeleine
  • Bob Sharkey
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1945 Blood on the Sun
  • Nick Condon
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1943 Johnny Come Lately (Johnny Vagabond)
  • Tom Richards
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1942 91% Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • George M. Cohan
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1942 Captains of the Clouds
  • Brian MacLean
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1941 The Bride Came C.O.D.
  • Steve Collins
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1941 88% The Strawberry Blonde
  • Biff Grimes
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1940 80% City for Conquest
  • Danny Kenny
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1940 The Fighting 69th
  • Jerry Plunkett
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1940 Torrid Zone
  • Nick Butler
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1939 Each Dawn I Die
  • Frank Ross
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1939 The Oklahoma Kid
  • Jim Kincaid
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1939 100% The Roaring Twenties
  • Eddie Bartlett
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1938 Boy Meets Girl
  • Robert Law
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1938 100% Angels with Dirty Faces
  • Rocky Sullivan
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1937 Mob
  • Actor
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1936 The Great Guy (Pluck of the Irish)
  • Johnny Cave
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1936 Something to Sing About
  • Terry Rooney
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1935 Ceiling Zero
  • Dizzy Davis
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1935 Devil Dogs of the Air
  • Tommy O'Toole
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1935 'G' Men (G-Men)
  • James "Brick" Davis
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1935 The Irish in Us
  • Danny O'Hara
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1935 93% Mutiny on the Bounty
  • [uncredited]
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1935 Frisco Kid
  • Bat Morgan
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1935 88% A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Bottom
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1934 Musicals from Hollywood's Golden Age
  • Actor
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1934 The St. Louis Kid (A Weekend Perfect) (A Perfect Week-End)
  • Eddie Kennedy
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1934 Jimmy the Gent (Always a Gent) (The Heir Chaser)
  • Jimmy Corrigan
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1934 He Was Her Man
  • Flicker Hayes
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1934 Here Comes the Navy
  • Chesty O'Connor
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1933 Lady Killer
  • Don Quigley
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1933 100% Footlight Parade
  • Chester Kent
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1933 Picture Snatcher
  • Danny Kean
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1933 The Mayor of Hell
  • Patsy Gargan
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1933 Hard to Handle
  • Lefty Merrill
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1932 Crowd Roars
  • Joe Greer
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1932 Taxi!
  • Matt Nolan
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1931 Blonde Crazy,(Larceny Lane)
  • Bert Harris
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1931 Smart Money
  • Director
  • Jack
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1931 100% The Public Enemy
  • Tom Powers
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1931 The Millionaire
  • Schofield Insurance Salesman
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1931 Other Men's Women (The Steel Highway)
  • Ed
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1930 Golden Age of Musicals
  • Actor
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1930 The Doorway to Hell (A Handful of Clouds)
  • Steve Mileway
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Busby Berkeley - The Busby Berkeley Disc
  • Actor
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Quotes from James Cagney's Characters

    1. George M. Cohan: It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked.
    From Yankee Doodle Dandy. Submitted by rick b (47 days ago)
    1. Tom Powers: Nuts to that stuff (breakfast)! Ain't ya got a drink in the house?
    From The Public Enemy. Submitted by rick b (48 days ago)
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