James Stewart

James Stewart

May 20, 1908 · 118 years old

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 Li…

Known For

52 titles
1
Rear Window

Rear Window

1954 · 1h 52m · Movie

A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.

8.5
2
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · 2h 10m · Movie

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life.

8.6
3
Vertigo

Vertigo

1958 · 2h 8m · Movie

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

8.2
4
Rope

Rope

1948 · 1h 20m · Movie

Two young men murder a former classmate as a test of their intellectual and moral superiority, then hide the body as they host a dinner party attended by the victim's girlfriend and father, as well as their former schoolmaster and...

7.9
5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · 2h 9m · Movie

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...

8.1
6
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962 · 2h 3m · Movie

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

8.1
7
The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

1940 · 1h 52m · Movie

After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

7.8
8
Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

1959 · 2h 41m · Movie

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth and will he win his case?

8.0
9
The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956 · 2h 0m · Movie

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

7.4
10
Harvey

Harvey

1950 · 1h 44m · Movie

A whimsical man is thought to be insane due to his insistence that he is best friends with an invisible, humanoid rabbit, but he may be wiser than anyone knows.

7.9
11
The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner

1940 · 1h 39m · Movie

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

8.0
12
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

1991 · 1h 15m · Movie

Fievel's family decides to move out to the West, unaware that they are falling into a trap perpetrated by a smooth-talking cat.

6.5
13
You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

1938 · 2h 6m · Movie

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

7.8
14
The Shootist

The Shootist

1976 · 1h 40m · Movie

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

7.6
15
How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

1962 · 2h 44m · Movie

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

7.1
16
Winchester '73

Winchester '73

1950 · 1h 32m · Movie

A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.

7.6
17
The Flight of the Phoenix

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965 · 2h 22m · Movie

After an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors' hopes are buoyed by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who comes up with a plan to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.

7.5
18
The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952 · 2h 32m · Movie

The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.

6.5
19
Airport '77

Airport '77

1977 · 1h 54m · Movie

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.

5.8
20
Bell Book and Candle

Bell Book and Candle

1958 · 1h 46m · Movie

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.

6.8
21
Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again

1939 · 1h 35m · Movie

Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.

7.6
22
The Naked Spur

The Naked Spur

1953 · 1h 31m · Movie

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

7.3
23
The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie

1955 · 1h 43m · Movie

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

7.3
24
Call Northside 777

Call Northside 777

1948 · 1h 52m · Movie

Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.

7.4
25
Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

1950 · 1h 33m · Movie

Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.

7.1
26
Bend of the River

Bend of the River

1952 · 1h 31m · Movie

When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.

7.2
27
The Glenn Miller Story

The Glenn Miller Story

1954 · 1h 55m · Movie

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

7.3
28
Shenandoah

Shenandoah

1965 · 1h 45m · Movie

A Virginia farmer who has vowed to remain neutral during the Civil War is spurred into action when his youngest son is taken by Union soldiers.

7.3
29
The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis

1957 · 2h 15m · Movie

Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

7.1
30
Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · 2h 34m · Movie

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

6.7
31
The Mortal Storm

The Mortal Storm

1940 · 1h 40m · Movie

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small Alpine village until they are divided by the Nazi regime and a friend is caught up in the turmoil.

7.7
32
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

1962 · 1h 56m · Movie

Mr. Hobbs wants to spend a quiet holiday at the beach, but his wife has invited all their family to stay with them.

6.8
33
Bandolero!

Bandolero!

1968 · 1h 46m · Movie

Mace Bishop (James Stewart) masquerades as a hangman in order to save his outlaw brother, Dee (Dean Martin), from the gallows, runs to Mexico chased by Sheriff July Johnson's (George Kennedy's) posse and fights against Mexican ban...

6.5
34
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

1978 · 1h 39m · Movie

A grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail-turned-murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer, and a gangster.

5.8
35
That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment!

1974 · 2h 15m · Movie

Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.

7.8
36
The Cheyenne Social Club

The Cheyenne Social Club

1970 · 1h 43m · Movie

An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution.

6.8