James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. ( born July 17, 1899 in New York City; † March 30, 1986 Stanfordville (New York), United States) was an American film actor. As a hard-core gangster classics such as The Public Enemy or jump to their deaths Cagney became famous. However, he was also successful as a dancer and comedian. He was selected by the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest male movie legends of all time ranked 8th.
Life
Cagney was the son of an Irishman and a Norwegian. For a movie star, he was crushed in 1931 for his role as a brutal crime boss Tom Powers in the gangster film The Public Enemy, in which Cagney in a famous scene half a grapefruit in the face of his lover ( played by Mae Clarke) at breakfast. With Edward G. Robinson, the other known gangster actors of the 1930s and 1940s he turned right after the gangster film Easy money playing in the gambling environment. Edward G. Robinson is to be seen in a crime boss with a weakness for blondes, while James Cagney plays his "right hand". The role in The Public Enemy led to the image of the gangster Cagney received, although he appeared mostly in other roles.
Cagney then played only five Gangster - namely in Chicago - Angels with Dirty Faces, in The Roaring Twenties, in jumping to their deaths, in the morning you will not experience and Love Me - but was strongly identified with the image of the hard-nosed criminal. For his role in Chicago - Angels with Dirty Faces, he was nominated for an Oscar. The film tells the story of two boys who grow up together; a boy is later gangster, the other priests. The crime boss again played Cagney. Humphrey Bogart also participated as corrupt lawyer. James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart made together and the Roaring Twenties, in which they play two fellow soldiers and later bootleggers, as well as the Western Oklahoma Kid. In the opposite role of the police Cagney slipped in 1935, the FBI agent.
Except unsympathetic mobsters played Cagney, among other boxer, reporter, secret agents, pilots and sympathetic scammers as in a charming swindler. With Bette Davis, he turned The bride came by cash, a comedy, was kidnapped in the James Cagney as a pilot, played by Bette Davis bride on behalf of her own father to prevent her from marrying a non- suit his or her bandleader, both in the desert stranded. 1935 Cagney played his most unusual role in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's eponymous comedy. James Cagney played the " List ", a young man who is transformed into a donkey.
An Oscar got Cagney in 1942 for his role as a composer and impresario George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy, a mix of musical and film biography. The role of George M. Cohan he repeated in 1955 in comedians Children, a film about the stand-up comedian Eddie Foy, who was played by Bob Hope. The actor Lon Chaney Cagney played in the biopic The Man with 1000 faces. Chaney was an actor of the silent era, who was then famous for its grotesque masks. He has played leading roles in silent film versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera.
1961 Cagney played the character of CR MacNamara, the West Berlin Managing Director of Coca -Cola in the comedy One, Two, Three, at the Billy Wilder directed. He then accepted for 19 years at no more roles. In 1974 he was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award. 1980 James Cagney celebrated his comeback. In the drama Ragtime he played a police chief. He played his last role in 1984 in the TV movie Nick sitting in the terminal.
On March 30, 1986 Cagney died at his residence in Dutchess County. The funeral took place at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
Filmography
Direction
Awards
Synchronization
Many of synchronizations Cagney were taken over by Wolfgang Draeger. Other voice actors who lent their voice Cagney, were Hans Hessling and Horst Niendorf.