James Stewart
Born: 1908-05-20 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1997-07-02
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2024
- The Bloody Hundredth as Self - Pilot, 453rd Bomb Group (archive footage)
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin as Self (archive footage)
- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)
2021
- I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self
2018
- Black Baby as Rupert Cadell (archive footage)
2017
- Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America as Self (archive footage)
- This Is Bob Hope... as Self (archive footage)
2013
- John Ford & Monument Valley as Self (archive footage)
- Talking Pictures as Self (archive footage)
2009
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You as Self (archive footage)
- Warner at War as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films as Narrator (archive footage)
2001
- Rope Unleashed as Self (archive footage)
- 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic as Self (archive footage)
2000
- The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' as Self (archive footage)
- John Wayne-A Life on Film as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Frank Capra's American Dream as Self (archive footage)
- Obsessed with Vertigo as Self (archive footage)
- Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas as George Bailey (archive footage)
1993
- La Classe américaine as Jacques (archive footage)
- Dark Galaxy as (archive footage)
1992
- Fonda on Fonda as Self
1991
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes West as Wylie Burp (voice)
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
- Burt Reynolds' Conversations with... as Self
1990
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life' as Self
1989
- Son of Dinosaurs as Himself
1987
- Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- A Beverly Hills Christmas as Self - Host
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1986
1985
- North and South as Miles Colbert
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- All Star Party for Lucille Ball as Self
1983
- Right of Way as Teddy Dwyer
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
- George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business as Self
- All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra as Self
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
1981
- All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds as Self
1980
- A Tale of Africa as Old Man
- Mr. Krueger's Christmas as Mr. Krueger
1979
1978
- The Big Sleep as General Sternwood
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- Mickey's 50 as Self
- The Magic of Lassie as Clovis Mitchell
1977
- Airport '77 as Philip Stevens
- Please Turn the Page as Self
- The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here? as Self
- Laugh-In as Guest Performer
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- The Shootist as Dr. Hostetler
- CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years as Self
- Sentimental Journey
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- That's Entertainment! as Self - Host / Narrator
1973
- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Hawkins as Billy Jim Hawkins
1972
- Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- The Julie Andrews Hour as Self
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Fools' Parade as Mattie Appleyard
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Directed by John Ford
- The American West of John Ford as Self - Narrator
- The Pet Set as Self
- Film '72 as Self
- The Jimmy Stewart Show as Prof. James K. Howard
1970
- The Cheyenne Social Club as John O'Hanlan
1968
- Bandolero! as Mace Bishop
- The Dean Martin Christmas Show
- Firecreek as Johnny Cobb
1966
- The Rare Breed as Sam Burnett
1965
- The Dean Martin Show
- Shenandoah as Charlie Anderson
- Dear Brigitte as Professor Robert Leaf
- The Flight of the Phoenix as Frank Towns
1964
- Cheyenne Autumn as Wyatt Earp
- Cheyenne Autumn Trail as Narrator
1963
- Take Her, She's Mine as Frank Michaelson
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Ransom Stoddard
- How the West Was Won as Linus Rawlings
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation as Roger Hobbs
- Flashing Spikes as Slim Conway
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- X-15 as Himself / Narrator (voice)
- Two Rode Together as Marshal Guthrie McCabe
- Alcoa Premiere
1960
- My Three Sons as James Stewart
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood as Self
- The Mountain Road as Major Baldwin
1959
- Startime
- Anatomy of a Murder as Paul Biegler
- The FBI Story as John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty
1958
- Vertigo as Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson
- Bell, Book and Candle as Shep Henderson
- Lux Playhouse
- The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
1957
- Night Passage as Grant McLaine
- The Spirit of St. Louis as Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- The Man Who Knew Too Much as Dr. Ben McKenna
1955
- The Man from Laramie as Will Lockhart
- Strategic Air Command as Robert "Dutch" Holland
1954
- Rear Window as L.B. Jefferies
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- The Glenn Miller Story as Glenn Miller
- The Far Country as Jeff Webster
- Tomorrow's Drivers as the story teller
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Thunder Bay as Steve Martin
- The Naked Spur as Howard Kemp
- General Electric Theater as Joe Newman
1952
- Carbine Williams as Marsh Williams
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Buttons
- Bend of the River as Glyn McLyntock
1951
- No Highway in the Sky as Theodore Honey
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Elwood P. Dowd
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Narrator
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Jack Benny Program as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Broken Arrow as Tom Jeffords
- Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd
- The Jackpot as Bill Lawrence
- Winchester '73 as Lin McAdam
- And Then There Were Four as Self - Narrator (voice)
1949
- Malaya as John Royer
- The Stratton Story as Monty Stratton
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Rope as Rupert Cadell
- Call Northside 777 as P.J. 'Jim' McNeal
- You Gotta Stay Happy as Marvin Payne
- On Our Merry Way as Slim
- 10,000 Kids and a Cop as Narrator
1947
- Magic Town as Rip Smith
- Thunderbolt as Himself, Introduction
- Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as George Bailey
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter / Nominee
1942
- Winning Your Wings as Self
- Fellow Americans as Narrator (voice)
1941
- Pot o' Gold as James Hamilton 'Jimmy' Haskell
- Come Live with Me as Bill Smith
- Ziegfeld Girl as Gilbert Young
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1940
- The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay 'Mike' Connor
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- The Shop Around the Corner as Alfred Kralik
- The Mortal Storm as Martin Breitner
- No Time for Comedy as Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith
- It's a Wonderful World as Guy Johnson
- The Ice Follies of 1939 as Larry Hall
- Made for Each Other as John Horace Mason
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as James Stewart (archive footage)
- Destry Rides Again as Tom Destry Jr.
- Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
1938
- Vivacious Lady as Peter
- You Can't Take It with You as Tony Kirby
- Of Human Hearts as Jason Wilkins
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as James Stewart
- The Shopworn Angel as Pvt. William 'Texas' Pettigrew
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
1937
- Seventh Heaven as Chico
- Navy Blue and Gold as John 'Truck' Cross
- The Last Gangster as Paul North Sr.
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
1936
- Rose Marie as John Flower
- Speed as Terry Martin
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- Next Time We Love as Christopher Tyler
- Small Town Girl as Elmer Clampett
- The Gorgeous Hussy as Roderick "Rowdy" Dow
- Wife vs. Secretary as Dave
- After the Thin Man as David Graham
- Born to Dance as Ted Barker
- Important News as Cornelius 'Corn' Stevens
1935
- The Murder Man as Shorty
1934
- Art Trouble as Jack Burton