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Real name: |
James Maitland Stewart |
Birthdate: |
May 20, 1908 |
Date of death: |
July 02, 1997 |
Age: |
88 years |
Country: |
United States
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Horoscope: |
Taurus |
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James Stewart Nominations & Awards
Academy Awards
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- Academy Honorary Award WINNER
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- Best Leading Actor WINNER
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
Venice Film Festival
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- Volpi Cup - Best Actor WINNER
Golden Globes Awards
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- Best Leading Actor in a TV Series - Drama WINNER
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- Best Leading Actor - Comedy or Musical NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor - Drama NOMINATED
BAFTA
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- Best Foreign Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Foreign Actor NOMINATED
San Sebastián Film Festival
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- Silver Shell - Best Actor WINNER
Berlin Film Festival
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- Silver Bear - Best Actor WINNER
New York Film Critics Circle
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- Best Leading Actor WINNER
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- Best Leading Actor WINNER
James Maitland Stewart, better known as James Stewart, was an American. He has won two Academy Awards, an Golden Globes Awards and an Berlin International Film Festival. He's known for The Big Sleep (1978), You Can't Take it With You (1938) and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).
All Movies of James Stewart
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TCM looks back at the history of Christmas movies from classics like "Scrooge", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Miracle on 34th Street", and "White Christmas" to contemporary films like "Home
Character:
George Bailey
(archive footage) (as Jimmy Stewart)
2011
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"A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers" will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenalin...
Character:
Various Roles
(archive footage)
2009
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Character:
(archive footage)
2000
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This excellent documentary interweaves the biographies of two highly different but equally important characters of cinema history: David O. Selznick, producer, and Alfred Hitchcock, movie director.
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(archive footage)
1998
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Christian Marclay's "Telephones" (1995), a 7 1/2-minute compilation of brief Hollywood film clips that creates a narrative of its own. These linked-together snippets of scenes involve innumerable well-known actors such a...
1995
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The life and films of iconic producer. director, and actor Otto Preminger are depicted through clips from his films and interviews with co-workers.
Character:
Self
1991
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Hosted by Clint Eastwood, Hollywood Remembers: Gary Cooper -- American Life, American Legend is a biographical portrait of the life and times of movie star Gary Cooper. The 47-minute tribute chronicles the actor's life from his ea...
Character:
Self
(archive footage)
1989
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TV miniseries (1985,1986,1994). 15 Episodes. Based on John Jakes best selling novel this is the story of the friendship between two youngs, George Hazard (James Read) and Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) that meet at West Point. George ...
1985
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Filmmaker Michael Winner switched the setting of Raymond Chandler's classic mystery novel from 1940's Los Angeles to 1970's London. When wealthy General Sternwood is blackmailed, he hires private detective Philip Marlowe to help h...
Character:
Gen. Sternwood
1978
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The story begins on the Mitchell Winery in Northern California. Lassie lives with Clovis Mitchell and his grandchildren, Chris and Kelly, but is discovered one day by her former owner. Lassie is taken back to the previous owner's ...
1978
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In this entry in the AIRPORT diaster-film franchise, a jumbo jet crashes into the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. As the plane becomes submerged, all the passengers aboard must find some way out. Like its predecessors, this film f...
Character:
Philip Stevens
1977
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The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his life as a star. Wayne plays a career gunfighter in the autumn ...
Character:
Dr. Hostetler
1976
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Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
1976
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Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favourite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Character:
Himself - Co-Host
1974
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Billy Jim Hawkins was a very clever defense attorney, whose drawl and laid back manner often fooled his adversaries into underestimating his skills as an attorney. Billy Jim's office was located in a small town in West Virginia, a...
Character:
Billy Jim Hawkins
8 episodes, 1973-1974
1973
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A documentary on the life and films of director John Ford.
Character:
Self
1971
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When an ex-con tries to open a general store, a corrupt prison official and banker try to get in the way. In 1935 Glory, West Virginia, convicts Mattie Appleyard, Lee Cottrill and young Johnny Jesus are freed from the penitentiary...
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Mattie Appleyard
1971
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Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows.
1968
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Charlie Anderson is a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia and finds himself (and his family) in the middle of the Civil War. He decides not to get involved in the war because he believes that this is not "his" war. But he eve...
Character:
Charlie
1965
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After a cargo plane crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara, the surviving crew must fight starvation and their own fears in order to escape from the harsh desert before their meager supplies of food and water run out. The Flight of ...
Character:
Frank Towns
1965
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Cheyenne Indians flee their squalid Oklahoma reservation and return to their traditional homeland along the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. A U.S. cavalry officer gets the call to return the tribe to the reservations but begins to q...
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Wyatt Earp
1964
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Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
Character:
Self
(archive footage)
1963
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James Stewart reunites with his Harvey director, Henry Koster, in this 1962 comedy, which is charming enough even though it doesn't seem quite up to the level of talent involved. (The screenwriter is the legendary Nunnally Johnson...
Character:
Roger Hobbs
1962
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Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters the truth about how he came to be known as 't...
Character:
Ransom Stoddard
1962
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The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal, continue over the prairies from St. Louis duri...
Character:
Linus Rawlings
1962
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The courageous pilots of the Air Force's X-15 program are determined to take an experimental rocket 100 miles above the earth... at four times the speed of sound! At stake is American air supremacy and proof that space travel is p...
Character:
Narrator
(voice)
1961
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Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Character:
Marshal Guthrie McCabe
1961
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An Army Lieutenant, Frederick Manion (Ben Gazarra), is accused of murdering a man, Barney Quill, for allegedly raping his beautiful wife, Laura Manion (Lee Remick). Manion’s lawyer, Paul Biegler (James Stewart), is assisted by ...
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Paul Biegler
1959
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San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An old college friend hires Scottie to watch his wife Madelein...
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John 'Scottie' Ferguson
1958
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A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real. Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apart...
Character:
Shepherd Henderson
1958
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Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
1957
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The workers on the railroad haven't been paid in months --- that's because Whitey and his gang, including fast-shooting, dangerous, but likeable Utica Kid, keep holding up the train for its payroll. Grant McLaine, a former railroa...
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Grant McLaine
1957
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Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day Bernard is murdered in the local marketplace, but before he dies he manages to r...
Character:
Dr. Benjamin McKenna
1956
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Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland was a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, not a pitcher. While at spring training a B-36 flew over the field and Dutch was standing on third base. Brewster was his third base replacement when...
Character:
Lt. Col. Robert 'Dutch' Holland
1955
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One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his pay-off for his trouble is double-cross and violence
1954
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TV Series (1954-1960). 6 seasons. 135 episodes. Hosted by George Gobel the show was one of TV's top hits in the mid fifties.
1954
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A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he tries to escape from boredom by loo...
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L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies
1954
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TV Series (1953-1962). 10 seasons. 300 episodes. General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and varitey music. Occupying the Sunday evening spot on CBS following the Toast of the Town/E...
Character:
Bart
/ ...
3 episodes, 1955-1957
1953
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Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for a long time. Along the way in Colorado, Kemp is forced to take on a couple of partners, an old prospector named Jesse Tate an...
Character:
Howard Kemp
1953
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James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the ...
Character:
Glenn Miller
1953
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To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in ...
Character:
'Buttons' A Clown
1952
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In the Old West, cowboy Lin McAdam wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest - which the runner-up contestant instantly steals. This leads to a rousing series of adventures for McAdam, as he attempts to...
1950
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The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also...
Character:
Elwood P. Dowd
1950
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Bill Lawrence wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz program. His happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the taxes on them.
Character:
William J. 'Bill' Lawrence
1950
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By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use this ch...
Character:
Tom Jeffords
1950
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The movie is about Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton (Jimmy Stewart), who in the 1930s, compiled a 37-19 won-loss record in three seasons. After he became the winningest right-hander in the American League, his major league...
Character:
Monty Stratton
1949
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Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child ever changed your life?&quo...
Character:
Slim
1948
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In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. B...
Character:
P.J. McNeal
1948
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Brandon y Philip son dos jóvenes que comparten un apartamento en Nueva York. Se consideran intelectualmente superiores a su amigo David Kentley y como consecuencia deciden asesinarlo. Juntos estrangulan a David con una soga y col...
Character:
Rupert Cadell
1948
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Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrec...
Character:
Rip Smith
1947
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Character:
James Stewart
1947
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A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel shows up to give him a tour of the world without his presence, ...
Character:
George Bailey
1946
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Character:
Self
(as Lieutenant James Stewart)
1942
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It's rare to see a musical comedy which allows an actor of Jimmy Stewart's caliber to exploit his charismatic screen persona, but POT O' GOLD fits this bill. Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, the owner of a struggling music store whose...
Character:
Jimmy Haskell
1941
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Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father...
Character:
Gilbert Young
1941
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Alfred Kralik is the timid headclerk at a Budapest shop named Matuschek and Company. Each morning, the employees wait together for the arrival of their boss, Hugo Matuschek. Following an ad in the newspaper, Alfred has started to ...
Character:
Alfred Kralik
1940
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Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia socialite who had divorced C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and is about to marry nouveau riche George Kittredge (John Howard). Wedding preparations are complicated ...
Character:
Macaulay Connor
1940
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Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. To prove that he can accomplish things on his own, he leaves Holly...
Character:
Larry Hall
1939
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Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Josep...