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James Stewart
Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
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 fi…
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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.
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2026
It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead
Movie George Bailey
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2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Movie John 'Scottie' Ferguson (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2024
The Bloody Hundredth
Movie Self - Pilot, 453rd Bomb Group (archive footage)
- 2023
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2022
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)
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2022
Rat Pack
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
This Is Bob Hope...
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
My Scientology Movie
Movie Self (archive photo)
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2015
Discovering Jean Harlow
Movie archive footage
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2013
John Ford & Monument Valley
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2013
Talking Pictures
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
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2008
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Warner at War
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Parkinson
TV show Self - Guest / Performer (archive footage)
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2003
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
Movie Narrator (archive footage)
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2002
The Ultimate Collection starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 70s and 80s
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Rope Unleashed
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
John Wayne-A Life on Film
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Movie George Bailey (archive footage)
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1997
Obsessed with Vertigo
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 1996
- 1995
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1993
La Classe américaine
Movie Jacques (archive footage)
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1993
Dark Galaxy
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1992
Fonda on Fonda
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1991
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Movie Wylie Burp (voice)
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1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie Self
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1991
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
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1990
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
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1990
Night of 100 Stars III
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1989
Son of Dinosaurs
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