Short Biography

One of Hollywood`s pre-eminent male stars of all time (eclipsed, perhaps, only by "King" Clark Gable and arguably by Gary Cooper or Spencer Tracy), and the cinema`s quintessential "tough guy." Was also an accomplished if rather stiff hoofer and easily played light comedy. Ending three decades on the screen, 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 One, Two, Three (1961). Emerged from retirement to star in the 1981 screen adaptation of E.L. Doctorow`s novel Ragtime (1981), in which he was reunited with his frequent co-star of the 30`s, the actor `Pat O`Brien`, and which was his last theatrical film. (Ironically - or fittingly, if one prefers - it was O`Brien`s last film as well.) Cagney`s final performance came in the title role of the made-for-TV movie Terrible Joe Moran (1984) (TV), in which he played opposite Art Carney.

Miscellaneous Information

Friends and Family

Frank Morgan [Friend]

Ralph Bellamy [Friend]

William Keighley [Associate]

Carolyn Cagney [Mother]

James Francis Cagney [Father]

Kay Francis [Friend]

Regis Toomey [Friend]

Joan Leslie [Friend]

Virginia Mayo [Friend]

Humphrey Bogart [Friend]

Spencer Tracy [Friend]

William Powell [Friend]

Ronald Reagan [Friend]

Frank McHugh [Friend]

Pat O`Brien [Friend]

William Cagney [Brother]

Jeanne Cagney [Sister]

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