Search

Search results

Displaying 91 - 100

James Caan

Tough-guy leading man and sometime supporting player James Caan was best-known for his role as hot-tempered Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). Caan grew up in Queens, New…

James Buchanan

James Buchanan was the last American president born in the 18th century, and his term (1857-61) was the last before the Civil War. Buchanan came to the presidency after a distinguished public career…

James Baldwin

James Baldwin established his reputation with his first novel, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953), an autobiographical tale of growing up in Harlem. He became one of the leading African-American…

James Cromwell

James Cromwell played kindly Farmer Hoggett in the 1995 George Miller movie Babe, winning an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor for the role. Cromwell was already a veteran character actor who…

James Cook

Captain James Cook was an English naval explorer whose expeditions in the 1770s charted much of the lands of the Pacific, including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii. The son of an agricultural…

James Coburn

Tall, lean and sporting one of the biggest grins in Hollywood, James Coburn was best known for his roles in The Magnificent Seven (1960, with Steve McQueen), Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (…

James Cagney

Name at birth: James Francis Cagney, Jr.James Cagney caught the public's attention as a tough-talking gangster in 1931's The Public Enemy. Cagney was originally a song-and-dance man in vaudeville and…

James Doolittle

James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle became a national hero and received the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor for leading a carrier-based bomber attack on Tokyo, Japan during World War II, in April of…

James Doohan

Actor James Doohan is known almost exclusively for playing chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the 1960s TV series Star Trek and the movies, cartoons and parodies which followed. He's the…

James Dean

James Dean appeared in only a handful of films, the best-known being East of Eden (1955, from the novel by John Steinbeck), Rebel Without a Cause (1955, with Natalie Wood) and Giant (1956, with…