James Cagney

James Cagney was born on Jul 17, 1899 in USA. James Cagney's big-screen debut came with Sinners' Holiday directed by John G. Adolfi in 1930, strarring Harry Delano. James Cagney is known for Ragtime directed by Milos Forman, James Cagney stars as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo and Brad Dourif as Younger Brother. James Cagney has got 13 awards and 4 nominations so far. The most recent award James Cagney achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie James Cagney plays is Terrible Joe Moran which will be released on Mar 27, 1984.

One of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn (Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur boxer. Cagney was of Norwegian (from his maternal grandfather) and Irish descent. Ending three decades on the screen, he retired to his farm in Stanfordville, New York (some 77 miles/124 km. north of his New York City birthplace), after starring in Billy Wilder's Un, deux, trois (1961). He emerged from retirement to star in the 1981 screen adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel "Ragtime" (Ragtime (1981)), in which he was reunited with his frequent co-star of the 1930s, Pat O'Brien, and which was his last theatrical film and O'Brien's as well). Cagney's final performance came in the title role of the made-for-TV movie Joe Moran, le terrible (1984), in which he played opposite Art Carney.