James Cagney | Radio Star | Old Time Radio Downloads

Series	Episode title	Date
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (208) ceiling zero	1939-02-27
Lux Radio Theater	lux radio theater (504) blood on the sun	1945-12-03
suspense	no escape	1948-12-16

Wonderful actor,done many great performances.

Kim

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Multi talented man actor boxer dancer and all round good person rip jimmy cagney

Gordon

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A true legend who deserved more oscars

Gary

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I love all of James Cagney's movies

Lillian

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Brilliant multi talented actor

Ellen

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One of my favorite actors back in the day , James Cagney

Harriet

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My favorite actor! Loved all his movies

Stephaine

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Very excellent and athletic dancer! Great actor and love those Jimmy Cagney eyes!

Karen

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He totally deserved it. One of the greatest actors ever.

Lottrea

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Cagney, one of my favorites!.....Great actor!

Tina

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My Favorite Actor James Cagney!

Neal

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Brilliant actor

Mark

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One of my favorites

Joan

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One of the greats

William

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Great dynamic acting legend

Frank

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Cagney was the ultimate showman. He could play any part. Sing dance. Be soft and then turn around and be one tough SOB. Magnificent.

Brain

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RIP James Cagney he was the best entainer and fierce actor know one could ever take his place

Barbra

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a truly great and talented man...loved him

Joan

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I love you James Cagney you are the best actor of our times.

Connie

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A brilliant artist was he sang danced so many things its toomuch to list but most of all he remained a human being and kind . now that today does not exist im sorry to say

Gianni

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He is my favourite actor of all time

Della

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Absolutely fabulous actor. Loved all his movies

Edith

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op of the world ma... so many great characters and movies he was in

Elias

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What a great actor and gentleman! When asked if he ever said "you dirty rat" , he answered:" what I said was Judy, Judy ,Judy"! Great guy.

Joe

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Most definitely I truly enjoyed Mr. Cagney! and his sister Jean! Sincerely the best!!!!!!!!

Maria

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A true Hollywood great,he was tough as they come,he got the AFI award in 1974 and what a great career he had.

Darren

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What an amazing actor. Grew up watching all his old movies

Jordan

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I loved this awesome actor!

Tony

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One of the greatest perfomers of Hollywood's Golden Era. Great actor and dancer!

Armando

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Excellent Actor one off the old Greatest

Malon

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Great actor. At one point James Cagney was the highest paid actor in Hollywood

Anita

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James Cagney what a wonderful talented actor loved all his movies a great dancer.

Linda

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One of the Hollywood Greats. Wonderful actor. Yankee doodle dandy.white heat.man of a thousand faces etc etc.hard to pick just one movie he was great in them all.

Gareth

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Jimmy Cagney Not Only A Great Actor But A Great Dancer, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, WHITE HEAT, MISTER ROBERTS...THE LIST IS ENDLESS!!!

Charles

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The all time great 'hoofer'.Will never be forgotten.

Stan

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Cagney, a great actor & a great dance........r

Neil

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Cagney, James (James Francis Cagney) Born in New York City 7/17/1899; died 3/30/1986 of complications from diabetes and heart failure in Stanfordville, New York. Brother of actress Jean Cagney and producer William J. Cagney (1902-1988). Married to his vaudeville partner Frances Willard Vernon (1920-1986 his death). Began his career in vaudeville (1924). Screen debut in Sinner's Holiday (1930). Warner Brothers top movie star (1930-1942). Voted among the top ten stars at the box office (1939-1943). Academy Award for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Free-lance actor beginning in 1943. After appearing in the 1962 movie, One, Two, Three retired to his farm, but was back on screen for one last time in Ragtime (1981), then appeared in a made-for-television movie, Terrible Joe Moran (1984).

Jack

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Guest star on radio programs including Lux Radio Theatre for NBC and CBS (five times 1934- 1945); Arch Obler's Plays for NBC (1939). Guest star on television programs including acting as the host of an episode of Navy Log on CBS (1/9/1958); Robert Montgomery Presents for NBC (1956); was the mystery guest on What's My Line for CBS (1960); Night Of 100 Stars for ABC (1981). Narrator of Smokey The Bear on CBS-TV (1966).

Jack

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love this man. what a actor.

Richard

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He was, critic Lincoln Kirstein observed as early as 1932, “the first definitely metropolitan figure to become national.” With an accent most Americans had never heard and with the aggressiveness of a man hurling himself into a packed subway car moments before the doors close, James Francis Cagney, Jr. was the first New York street urchin to grab a piece of the American Dream. Cagney was a national hero. People would line up as faithfully to watch him in Pocatello, Baton Rouge, and Lansing, as they would at the Loews Delancey, blocks from his Lower East Side beginnings.

Mike

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Not merely a national figure, James Cagney was a “Star,” almost from the beginning of his movie career. And he rapidly became an archetype, a vital national resource, a personage to be emulated in dress, speech, and swagger. His films — good, bad or indifferent — were, and are, almost all worth watching for his very presence. Of all that matchless generation of movie actors and actresses who came of age in the 1930s, none brought as much sheer energy to the screen as Cagney. Running, grabbing, fighting, rearing back and stopping short, dancing, screaming: Cagney whirled through his parts with the assurance of a lightweight boxer defending his title for the twentieth time. His verbal delivery, endlessly parodied, made the tamest line seem charged with irony or malevolence. And such was the force of his screen personal that it is easy to overlook the intelligence and subtlety of his acting. Through The Public Enemy, Taxi, Footlight Parade, Jimmy the Gent, G-Men, Angels with Dirty Faces, City For Conquest, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Heat, Love Me Or Leave Me, Mister Roberts, and right up to his last film, One, Two, Three, Cagney created a truly irresistible series of characters.

Mike

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Cagney knew exactly how far he could take a particular character, knew the point at which his intense energy would start burning holes in the script. The result was that no matter how far Cagney went, he never upset the balance of a picture. That perfect story sense, combined with his incredible arsenal of facial and physical gestures, made him the complete movie actor.

Mike

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If Cagney is in a movie I know it will be good!

Marie

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No one can touch him. Simply the best.

Dayne

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he was a very kind man and was to me a shy gentlemen and very appreciative.

Mike

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One of my all time favorite actors

Trevor

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Very interesting guy offscreen. Rancher who raised horses, and a very accomplished artist, as I have seen some of his paintings.

Don

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I was a small child I grew up watching him out of every actor then and now how I loved him

Cynthia

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I was a small child I grew up watching him out of every actor then and now how I loved him

Cynthia

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Great smile great movie star top of the world all cagney fans.

Martin

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One of the greatest male actors (gangsters) of all time which includes Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Edward G Robinson, Paul Muni, n James Cagney

Armand

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Such a gifted actor & man! Love all his movies! The best.

Jack

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Good actor. A very good tap dancer too.

Harold

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He was one of the greatest actors of the 30s and 40s

Erich

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Another actor before my time .. Love him he's the best ever.....

Cynthia

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Cagney had a very expressive face. He also had a very strong physical presence on screen. He conveyed alot of emotion non verbally.

Steve

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I absolutely adore Ida Lupino. Unfortunately, I don't feel like we hear about her as much as other stars of her time nowadays. She was an incredible talent though, and uniquely beautiful as well.

Randi

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Lupino is very underrated, she was multi talented and also stunning. But she's slowly gaining some attention in classic film circles.

Antonis

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She was also a great movie director ! I love her film noir movies

Russell

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She also did Twilight Zone episodes and at least one Gilligan's Island episode. She was a great director!

Lou

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Gorgeous Sexy, and very,very intelligent.

Larry

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sexy and intelligent go hand in hand. Nothing like a smart, sexy woman.

Scott

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Exquisitely beautiful woman. I was surprised recently when I viewed The Hitch-Hiker on TMC and saw her name in the credits as cowriter and director.

Alex

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She directed one of my all-time favorite movies; The Trouble With Angels.

Edie

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Heavenly Birthday...... July 17th James Cagney, one of the greatest stars of the 20th century who made an indelible impact in as a ruthless gangster in 1931's "The Public Enemy," won the Oscar as song-and-dance-man George M. Cohan in 1942's "Yankee Doodle Dandy," earned nominations for 1938's "Angels with Dirty Faces" and 1955's "Love Me or Leave Me" and should have been nominated for 1949's "White Heat," was born on this date 120 years ago! Cagney died in 1986 at the age of 86.

Mark

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Happy Birthday! James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) the American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film. . Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is best remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as "The Public Enemy" (1931), "Taxi!" (1932), "Angels with Dirty Faces "(1938), "The Roaring Twenties"(1939) and "White Heat (1949)," finding himself typecast or limited by this reputation earlier in his career. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Orson Welles said of Cagney, "[he was] maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera".

John

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Cagney's seventh film, "The Public Enemy, "became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period. Notable for a famous scene in which Cagney pushes a grapefruit against Mae Clarke's face, the film thrust him into the spotlight. He became one of Hollywood's leading stars and one of Warner Bros.' biggest contracts. In 1938 he received his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for his subtle portrayal of the tough guy/man-child Rocky Sullivan in "Angels with Dirty Faces". In 1942 Cagney won the Oscar for his energetic portrayal of George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy". He was nominated a third time in 1955 for "Love Me or Leave Me."