James Stewart
Actor
- Born
- May 20, 1908 · Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- July 2, 1997 (age 89)
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star. He also had a noted military career and was a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve.
Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Shenandoah, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and AFI's 10 Top 10 lists. He is also the most represented leading actor on the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time list presented by Entertainment Weekly. As of 2007, ten of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry.
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Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including westerns, suspense thrillers, family films, biographies and screwball comedies. He worked for a number of renowned directors later in his career, most notably Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, George Cukor, and Anthony Mann. He won many of the industry's highest honors and earned Lifetime Achievement awards from every major film organization. He died at age 89, leaving behind a legacy of classic performances, and is considered one of the finest actors of the "Golden Age of Hollywood". He was named the third Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Known for
Acting181
- 2026It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead as George Bailey
- 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as John 'Scottie' Ferguson (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2024Marlene Dietrich: Home Movies as Self
- 2024The Bloody Hundredth as Self - Pilot, 453rd Bomb Group (archive footage)
- 2023James Stewart, l'ami américain
- 2022Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)
- 2022Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self (archive footage)
