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James Cagney

Personal Profile

James Cagney
  • Birth Name:
    James Francis Cagney, Jr.
  • Nickname:
    The Professional Againster, Jimmy
  • Date of Birth:
    July 17, 1899
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Cancer
  • Place of Birth:
    New York City, New York USA
  • Place of Death:
    Stanford, New York USA
  • Date of Death:
    March 30, 1986
  • Cause of Death:
    Heart Attack
  • Height:
    5' 6½"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

James Cagney
  • Spouse:
    Frances Vernon

Career

James Cagney

Trivia

James Cagney
  • Earned a Black Belt in Judo.
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • He was voted the 14th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
    submitted by - Amit Rank
  • Extraordinarily (for Hollywood), he never cheated on his wife Frances, resulting in a marriage that lasted 64 years (ending with his death). The closest he came was nearly giving into a seduction attempt by Merle Oberon while the two stars were on tour to entertain WWII GIs.
    submitted by - Aksh Dhiman
  • Despite the common perception that he was full-blooded Irish of origin this was not all-together true. His grandfather was from Norway, but as he told an interviewer shortly before his death in 1986: "My mother's father, my Grandpa Nelson, was a Norwegian sea captain, but when I tried to investigate those roots I didn't get very far, for he had apparently changed his name to another one that made it impossible to identify him within the rest of the population."
    submitted by - Soha Ali
  • Was of Irish-Norwegian origin.
    submitted by - New ID

Quotes

James Cagney
  • Learn your lines ... plant your feet ... look the other actor in the eye ... say the words ... mean them. - Unknown
    submitted by - Adline Systems
  • My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking. - Unknown
    submitted by - Sandeep Sandeep Singh
  • You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tried to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. - Unknown
    submitted by - Rokit Sharma
  • I hate the word superstar. I have never been able to think in those terms. They are overstatements. You don't hear them speak of Shakespeare as a superpoet. You don't hear them call Michelangelo a superpainter. They only apply the word to this mundane market. - Unknown
    submitted by - Nihaal Jain
  • Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell. - Unknown
    submitted by - Amit Kher

Filmography

James Cagney