James Stewart

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. 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: Acting

Born: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA, 1908-05-20

Died: 1997-07-02

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Art Trouble	Jack Burton	63
2	1935	The Murder Man	Shorty	69
3	1936	Next Time We Love	Christopher Tyler	62
4	1936	Rose Marie	John Flower	62
5	1936	Wife vs. Secretary	Dave	68
6	1936	Important News	Cornelius 'Corn' Stevens	60
7	1936	Small Town Girl	Elmer Clampett	59
8	1936	Speed	Terry Martin	55
9	1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Roderick "Rowdy" Dow	53
10	1936	Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)	Self	60
11	1936	Born to Dance	Ted Barker	61
12	1936	After the Thin Man	David Graham	73
13	1937	Seventh Heaven	Chico	66
14	1937	The Romance of Celluloid	Self (archive footage)	70
15	1937	The Last Gangster	Paul North Sr.	63
16	1937	Navy Blue and Gold	John 'Truck' Cross	59
17	1938	Of Human Hearts	Jason Wilkins	58
18	1938	Vivacious Lady	Peter	68
19	1938	Hollywood Goes to Town	Self	70
20	1938	The Shopworn Angel	Pvt. William 'Texas' Pettigrew	71
21	1938	Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12	James Stewart	60
22	1938	You Can't Take It with You	Tony Kirby	75
23	1939	Made for Each Other	John Horace Mason	61
24	1939	The Ice Follies of 1939	Larry Hall	56
25	1939	Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8	James Stewart (archive footage)	40
26	1939	Hollywood Hobbies	Self (uncredited)	56
27	1939	It's a Wonderful World	Guy Johnson	64
28	1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Jefferson Smith	79
29	1939	Destry Rides Again	Tom Destry Jr.	72
30	1940	The Shop Around the Corner	Alfred Kralik	81
31	1940	Hollywood: Style Center of the World	Self	55
32	1940	The Mortal Storm	Martin Breitner	72
33	1940	Cavalcade of the Academy Awards	Self	65
34	1940	No Time for Comedy	Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook	54
35	1940	A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound	Self	67
36	1940	The Philadelphia Story	Macaulay 'Mike' Connor	76
37	1941	Come Live with Me	Bill Smith	70
38	1941	Pot o' Gold	James Hamilton 'Jimmy' Haskell	55
39	1941	Ziegfeld Girl	Gilbert Young	65
40	1941	Breakdowns of 1941	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	70
41	1942	Fellow Americans	Narrator (voice)	60
42	1942	Winning Your Wings	Self	58
43	1946	It's a Wonderful Life	George Bailey	83
44	1947	Thunderbolt	Himself, Introduction	62
45	1947	Magic Town	Rip Smith	67
46	1947	Blow-Ups of 1947	Self	63
47	1948	On Our Merry Way	Slim	55
48	1948	Call Northside 777	P.J. 'Jim' McNeal	66
49	1948	Rope	Rupert Cadell	79
50	1948	10,000 Kids and a Cop	Narrator	60
51	1948	You Gotta Stay Happy	Marvin Payne	65
52	1949	The Stratton Story	Monty Stratton	65
53	1949	Malaya	John Royer	65
54	1950	And Then There Were Four	Self - Narrator (voice)	50
55	1950	Winchester '73	Lin McAdam	73
56	1950	Broken Arrow	Tom Jeffords	67
57	1950	The Jackpot	Bill Lawrence	69
58	1950	Harvey	Elwood P. Dowd	77
59	1951	No Highway in the Sky	Theodore Honey	69
60	1952	Bend of the River	Glyn McLyntock	69
61	1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Buttons	63
62	1952	Carbine Williams	Marsh Williams	64
63	1953	The Naked Spur	Howard Kemp	69
64	1953	Thunder Bay	Steve Martin	61
65	1954	Tomorrow's Drivers	the story teller	50
66	1954	The Glenn Miller Story	Glenn Miller	69
67	1954	The Far Country	Jeff Webster	69
68	1954	Rear Window	L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies	84
69	1955	Strategic Air Command	Robert "Dutch" Holland	61
70	1955	The Man from Laramie	Will Lockhart	72
71	1956	The Man Who Knew Too Much	Dr. Ben McKenna	75
72	1957	The Spirit of St. Louis	Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh	67
73	1957	Night Passage	Grant McLaine	64
74	1958	Vertigo	Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson	82
75	1958	Bell, Book and Candle	Shep Henderson	64
76	1959	Anatomy of a Murder	Paul Biegler	79
77	1959	The FBI Story	John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty	61
78	1960	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood	Self	60
79	1960	The Mountain Road	Major Baldwin	64
80	1961	Two Rode Together	Marshal Guthrie McCabe	64
81	1961	X-15	Himself / Narrator (voice)	59
82	1962	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Ransom Stoddard	78
83	1962	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation	Roger Hobbs	64
84	1962	Flashing Spikes	Slim Conway	53
85	1962	How the West Was Won	Linus Rawlings	70
86	1963	Take Her, She's Mine	Frank Michaelson	53
87	1964	Cheyenne Autumn Trail	Narrator	0
88	1964	Cheyenne Autumn	Wyatt Earp	67
89	1965	Dear Brigitte	Professor Robert Leaf	64
90	1965	Shenandoah	Charlie Anderson	69
91	1965	The Flight of the Phoenix	Capt. Frank Towns	72
92	1966	The Rare Breed	Sam Burnett	60
93	1968	Firecreek	Johnny Cobb	64
94	1968	Bandolero!	Mace Bishop	65
95	1968	The Dean Martin Christmas Show		76
96	1970	The Cheyenne Social Club	John O'Hanlan	64
97	1971	Fools' Parade	Mattie Appleyard	68
98	1971	Directed by John Ford		69
99	1971	The American West of John Ford	Self - Narrator	63
100	1972	Hollywood: The Dream Factory	Self (archive footage)	60
101	1972	Harvey	Elwood P. Dowd	68
102	1974	That's Entertainment!	Self - Host / Narrator	73
103	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57
104	1976	Sentimental Journey		60
105	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
106	1976	The Shootist	Dr. Hostetler	71
107	1976	CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years	Self	73
108	1977	Airport '77	Philip Stevens	56
109	1978	The Big Sleep	General Sternwood	59
110	1978	The Magic of Lassie	Clovis Mitchell	54
111	1978	Mickey's 50	Self	0
112	1980	A Tale of Africa	Old Man	50
113	1980	Mr. Krueger's Christmas	Mr. Krueger	60
114	1981	All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds	Self	60
115	1982	Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!	Self (archive footage)	60
116	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
117	1982	Showbiz Goes to War	(archive footage)	100
118	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
119	1983	James Bond: The First 21 Years	Self	50
120	1983	George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business	Self	80
121	1983	Right of Way	Teddy Dwyer	73
122	1983	All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra	Self	60
123	1984	All Star Party for Lucille Ball	Self	60
124	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
125	1986	Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special	Self	90
126	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
127	1987	Grace Kelly: The American Princess	Self	65
128	1987	A Beverly Hills Christmas	Self - Host	35
129	1988	Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC	Self	60
130	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self	60
131	1989	Son of Dinosaurs	Himself	62
132	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
133	1990	The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'	Self	60
134	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	Self	77
135	1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Wylie Burp (voice)	63
136	1992	Fonda on Fonda	Self	60
137	1993	Dark Galaxy	(archive footage)	0
138	1993	La Classe américaine	Jacques (archive footage)	76
139	1995	The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies	Self	81
140	1996	No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich		60
141	1997	Frank Capra's American Dream	Self (archive footage)	62
142	1997	Obsessed with Vertigo	Self (archive footage)	70
143	1997	Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas	George Bailey (archive footage)	52
144	1999	Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	76
145	2000	John Wayne-A Life on Film	Self (archive footage)	0
146	2000	The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'	Self (archive footage)	65
147	2001	Rope Unleashed	Self (archive footage)	69
148	2001	'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic	Self (archive footage)	74
149	2002	The Ultimate Collection starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 70s and 80s		0
150	2003	Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films	Narrator (archive footage)	56
151	2008	Warner at War	Self (archive footage)	70
152	2008	Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You	Self (archive footage)	0
153	2009	The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth	Self (archive footage)	0
154	2009	1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	Self (archive footage)	75
155	2010	Casino Jack and the United States of Money	Jefferson Smith (archive footage)	71
156	2013	John Ford & Monument Valley	Self (archive footage)	10
157	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
158	2017	Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America	Self (archive footage)	60
159	2017	This Is Bob Hope...	Self (archive footage)	80
160	2021	I Am Alfred Hitchcock	Self	71
161	2022	Rat Pack	Self (archive footage)	90
162	2022	Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin	Self (archive footage)	0
163	2022	Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues	Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)	66
164	2023	James Stewart, l'ami américain		0
165	2024	The Bloody Hundredth	Self - Pilot, 453rd Bomb Group (archive footage)	73
166	2025	Manikin	George Bailey (Archival)	100

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter/Winner	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
3	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
4	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
5	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
6	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Self	78
7	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Jimmy Stewart (uncredited)	78
8	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Jimmy Stewart	78
9	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Narrator	73
10	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Elwood P. Dowd	86
11	1953	General Electric Theater	Joe Newman	63
12	1953	General Electric Theater	Britt Ponset	63
13	1953	General Electric Theater	Bart	63
14	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
15	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
16	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
17	1958	Lux Playhouse		0
18	1959	Startime		60
19	1960	My Three Sons	James Stewart	65
20	1961	Alcoa Premiere		50
21	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
22	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Co-Host	54
23	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
24	1965	The Dean Martin Show		73
25	1971	The Pet Set	Self	55
26	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
27	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
28	1971	The Jimmy Stewart Show	Prof. James K. Howard	60
29	1972	The Julie Andrews Hour	Self	60
30	1973	Hawkins	Billy Jim Hawkins	72
31	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
32	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
33	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
34	1977	Please Turn the Page	Self	60
35	1977	Laugh-In	Guest Performer	58
36	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
37	1985	North and South	Miles Colbert	74
38	1991	Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...	Self	60
39	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50

James Stewart

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