James Cagney

In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by a Communist.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Dir. Raoul Walsh · With James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Dir. Michael Curtiz · With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Dir. Raoul Walsh · With James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

Dir. William A. Wellman · With James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

Dir. John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy · With Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Dir. Lloyd Bacon · With James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Dir. Michael Curtiz · With James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Dir. Miloš Forman · With James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn