Media fans, have, on occasion, organized on behalf of canceled television series, with notable success in cases such as Star Trek in 1968, Cagney & Lacey in 1983, Xena: Warrior Princess, in 1995, Roswell in 2000 and 2001 ( it was canceled with finality at the end of the 2002 season ), Farscape in 2002, Firefly in 2002, and Jericho in 2007.

Bogart was gunned down on film repeatedly by Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, among others.

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

James Francis Cagney, Jr. ( July 17, 1899March 30, 1986 ) was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact.

Cagney himself had the idea of playing Jarrett as psychotic ; he later stated that " it was essentially a cheapie one-two-three-four kind of thing, so I suggested we make him nuts.

Cagney was still struggling against his gangster typecasting.

His next film, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, was another gangster movie, which was the first by Cagney Productions since its acquisition by Warners.

While compared unfavorably to White Heat by critics, it was fairly successful at the box office, with $ 500, 000 going straight to Cagney Productions ' bankers to pay off their losses.

Cagney Productions was not a great success, however, and in 1953, after William Cagney produced his last film, A Lion Is in the Streets, the company came to an end.

When the film was released, Snyder reportedly asked how Cagney had so accurately copied his limp, but Cagney himself insisted he had not, having based it on personal observation of other people when they limped: " What I did was very simple.

Day herself was full of praise for Cagney, stating that he was " the most professional actor I've ever known.

It was Tracy's involvement that ensured that Cagney accepted a supporting role, although in the end, Tracy did not take part.

" The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, incensing Ford.

Cagney cut short his imminent tirade, saying " When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over.

The first thing that Cagney asked Lemmon when they met was if he was still using his left hand.

While Cagney was not nominated, he had thoroughly enjoyed the production.

Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.

Cagney had long been told by friends that he would make an excellent director, so when he was approached by his friend, producer A. C. Lyles, he instinctively said yes.

Within a few years, the studio, in a matter reminiscent of their problems with James Cagney and Bette Davis, provoked hostility among their emerging contract TV stars like Clint Walker and James Garner, who sued over a contract dispute and won.

Sure enough, the cancelation of House Calls was announced among insider circles just before upfronts, and Rosenzweig pressured CBS executives to relaunch Cagney & Lacey in the fall with Gless replacing Foster.

In the early 1940s Hurrell moved to Warner Brothers Studios photographing, among others Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Alexis Smith, Maxine Fife, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney.

Throughout his career, Gotell also made numerous guest appearances in television series including Danger Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airline, Airwolf, The X-Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, and The Saint among others.

Actors known for their early support of SAG ( besides the founders ) include Edward Arnold, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, Jean Muir, George Murphy, Erin O ' Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William, and Robert Young.

These include the story that Orson Welles began work on a Batman movie in the 1940s, which was to feature James Cagney as The Riddler and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman ; the persistent rumour that the rock singer Courtney Love is the granddaughter of Marlon Brando ; and the idea that in a famous 1970s poster of Farrah Fawcett, there is a subliminal sexual message concealed in the actress's hair.

Golden Hollywood ( First row, left-right ) Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford ( Second row, left-right ) John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas ( Third row, left-right ) Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney ( Fourth row, left-right ) Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren ( Fifth row, left-right ) Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford

His film career began with minor roles in films dating back to 1945, including They Were Expendable ( with John Wayne and Robert Montgomery, but he quickly rose to young leading man status opposite such stars as Wallace Beery in The Mighty McGurk, Doris Day and James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me, Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy in Cass Timberlane, Clark Gable and Jane Russell in The Tall Men, and Marlon Brando, Merle Oberon, Jean Simmons in Désirée, and Joanne Woodward and Sheree North in No Down Payment.

After the stroke, Cagney was no longer able to undertake many of his favorite pastimes, including horse riding and dancing, and as he became more depressed, he even gave up his beloved painting.

While looking in the mirror, he seeks advice from his “ three favorite men ”: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson.

Around this time, unable to escape the stresses in his life, Morse would regularly pay trips to the movie theater, seeing the new movies of the day and quickly developing idols like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Orson Welles, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, while Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston and Billy Wilder were his favorite directors.

Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

The leading men ahead of Bogart at Warner Bros. included not only such classic stars as James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, but also actors far less well-known today, such as Victor McLaglen, George Raft and Paul Muni.

Charlton Heston, in announcing that Cagney was to be honored, called him " one of the most significant figures of a generation when American film was dominant, Cagney, that most American of actors, somehow communicated eloquently to audiences all over the world … and to actors as well.

Edward Woods was originally cast in the lead role until director Wellman decided Cagney would be more effective in the part and switched the two actors.

Although director Curtiz was famous for being a taskmaster, he also gave his actors some latitude, and Cagney and other players improvised a number of " bits of business ," as Cagney called them.

Among the actors who appear from classic films are Edward Arnold, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Wally Brown, James Cagney, William Conrad, Jeff Corey, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Charles McGraw, Fred MacMurray, John Miljan, Ray Milland, Edmund O ' Brien, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyck, Lana Turner and Norma Varden.

At Warner Brothers, the Dead End Kids made six films with some of the top actors in Hollywood, including James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Pat O ' Brien, and Ronald Reagan, including Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ).

Other prominent alumni include entertainers such as Thelonious Monk ( 1935 ), and actors Lucy Liu ( 1986 ), Tim Robbins ( 1976 ), and James Cagney ( 1918 ), comedian Paul Reiser ( 1973 ) and NBA basketball player and game fixer / bookmaker Jack Molinas ( 1949 ).

He was one of the three most popular gangster actors of the 1930s, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson ; Raft ranked far above Humphrey Bogart in fame and boxoffice clout throughout the decade.

Holt became Columbia Pictures ' most reliable leading man, and scored personal successes in three Frank Capra action dramas, Submarine ( 1928 ), Flight ( 1929 ), and Dirigible ( 1931 ), Holt's no-nonsense characterizations were eclipsed by those of younger, tough-talking actors like James Cagney and Chester Morris, but Holt continued to work in low-budget action features, almost always for Columbia, through 1940.

" He appeared with actors such as Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Pat O ' Brien, John Garfield, and Humphrey Bogart.

Also in 1937, Ivan F. Cox, a deposed officer of the San Francisco longshoremen's union, sued Stander and a host of others, including union leader Harry Bridges, actors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Jean Muir, and director William Dieterle.

He was a fan of the Hardboiled and Film noir movies that featured actors such as Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney ; films that were penned by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

With a group of ' angels '— fellow actors, writers and kindred spirits — the newly formed company was able to finance its first full season, including the premiere of Branagh's thriller, Public Enemy, in the Lyric Hammersmith main house, with Branagh in the ' Jimmie Cagney ' style leading role.