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James Stewart
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing 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...
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Airport '77
Airport '77 is a 1977 disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise.
The film starred a number of veteran actors, including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland. Like its predecessors, Airport...
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is an animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio and Universal Animation Studios, and released by Universal Pictures. It is the 1991 sequel to the 1986 film An American Tail, the...
Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is an American trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger and written by Wendell Mayes based on the best-selling novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name...
Bandolero!
Bandolero! is a 1968 western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch and George Kennedy.
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing his brother Dee from the gallows. Dee...
Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book and Candle is a 1958 romantic comedy directed by Richard Quine based on the hit broadway play by John Van Druten. It starred James Stewart and Kim Novak in their second on-screen pairing (after the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo). The...
Bend of the River
Bend of the River is a 1952 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their second collaboration.
In 1847, remorseful former outlaw Glyn McLyntock (James Stewart) is scouting for a wagon train of settlers to...
Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow is a western Technicolor film released in 1950. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred James Stewart and Jeff Chandler. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won a Golden Globe award for Best Film Promoting...
Call Northside 777
Call Northside 777 (1948) is a documentary-style film noir directed by Henry Hathaway. It is based on the true story of a Chicago reporter who proved that a man who has been in prison for murder, was wrongly convicted 11 years before. James Stewart...
Carbine Williams
Carbine Williams is a 1952 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring James Stewart. The film follows the life of its namesake, David Marshall Williams, who invented the operating principle for the M1 Carbine while in a North...
Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn is a 1964 western starring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, and Edward G. Robinson. The film was the last western to be directed by John Ford, who proclaimed it an elegy for the Native Americans who had been abused by...
Destry Rides Again
This article is about the movie Destry Rides Again. For the novel, see Destry Rides Again (novel). For the Broadway musical, see Destry Rides Again (musical).
Destry Rides Again is a 1939 western directed by George Marshall, starring Marlene...
Firecreek
Firecreek is a 1968 western directed by Vincent McEveety and starring James Stewart and Henry Fonda in his second role as an antagonist that year. The film is similar to High Noon, in that it features an entire town refusing to help against outlaws,...
Harvey
Harvey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull. The story is about a man whose best friend is a "pooka" named Harvey—in the form of a...
How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won is a 1962 epic Western film which follows four generations of a family (starting as the Prescotts) as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean. Filmed in the Cinerama curving widescreen process,...
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
The film takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls shortly...
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation is a 1962 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara. The film is based on a novel by Edward Streeter and features a popular singer of the time, Fabian.
Mr. Hobbs is an...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made...
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Night Passage
Night Passage is a 1957 western film starring James Stewart and Audie Murphy. The film is reminiscent of the popular western collaborations between Stewart and director Anthony Mann. This is largely because the project was slated to be their sixth...
No Highway in the Sky
No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. The film is based on the novel No Highway by Nevil Shute, and was one of the first films that involved a potential...
Rear Window
Rear Window is a 1954 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". It stars James Stewart as photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies, who spies on his...
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Rope
Rope is a 1948 thriller film based on the play Rope (1929) by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn (treatment) and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their...
Shenandoah
Shenandoah is a 1965 Civil War film starring James Stewart and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Though set during the American Civil War, the film's strong antiwar and humanitarian themes reflect attitudes at the time of the movie's release, toward...
The Cheyenne Social Club
The Cheyenne Social Club is a 1970 Western comedy film written by James Lee Barrett and directed and produced by Gene Kelly, and starred James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Jones. It was one of the few off-color ventures for Stewart, who...
The Far Country
The Far Country is a 1955 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their fourth western collaboration. It is one of a handful of Westerns, along with North to Alaska, to be set (not filmed) in Alaska.
In 1896,...
The FBI Story
The FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) opens the film narrating the...
The Glenn Miller Story
The Glenn Miller Story is a 1953 American film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western collaboration.
The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904-1944) (James Stewart) from his early days in the music...
The Jackpot
The Jackpot is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring James Stewart. The film is mostly forgotten today but was a successful vehicle for Stewart at the time. It featured a young Natalie Wood.
Bill Lawrence (James Stewart)...
The Man from Laramie
The Man from Laramie is a 1955 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their seventh collaboration. It was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T. Flynn first published in The Saturday Evening Post...
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's 1934 film of the same name.
In the book-length...
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 Western movie directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart and John Wayne. The black and white film was released by Paramount Pictures and the screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck was...
The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm is a 1940 film that was one of the most direct anti-Nazi Hollywood films released before the American entry into the Second World War. It stars James Stewart as a German who refuses to join the rest of his small Bavarian town in...
The Naked Spur
The Naked Spur is a 1953 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their third collaboration. The screenplay was written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom. The original music score was composed by Bronislau Kaper...
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on a Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an...
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The Shootist
The Shootist is a novel written by Glendon Swarthout and published in 1975.
The book was made into a 1976 Western film, the main subject of this article. The film was directed by Don Siegel and is noted as being the final film role of actor John...
The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) is a romantic comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson based on a 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie, written by Miklós...
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Its screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1954 Pulitzer Prize winning...
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Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their second non-western collaboration.
Following World War II, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin (James Stewart) and his friend Johnny Gambi (Dan...
Vertigo
Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. The film was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor and based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. In the...
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Winchester '73
Winchester '73 is an American Western film released by Universal Pictures in 1950. It stars James Stewart and is the first of eight collaborations between Stewart and director Anthony Mann. This movie also features early roles for Rock Hudson, Tony...
Wife vs. Secretary
Wife vs. Secretary (1936) is a comedy film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, and May Robson. The film was the fifth of six collaborations between Gable and Harlow and the fourth of seven collaborations...
The Ice Follies of 1939
The Ice Follies of 1939 is a 1939 motion picture directed by Reinhold Schünzel, and starring Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres and Lewis Stone. Using a show business backdrop, and featuring The International Ice Follies, Crawford plays Mary,...
The American Film Institute Salute to Frank Capra
The American Film Institute Salute to Frank Capra is a 1982 made-for-television film produced by George Stevens Jr., written by Joseph McBride, and starring Frank Capra, James Stewart, Claudette Colbert, Donna Reed and Bette Davis.
A tribute by the...
Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven is an American romantic drama film released in 1937 by 20th Century Fox and directed by Henry King. It starred Simone Simon and James Stewart.
The film is a remake of the 1927 silent film of the same name, which featured Janet Gaynor...
Take Her, She's Mine
Take Her, She's Mine is a 1963 comedy film starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee. The film was written by Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, and Nunnally Johnson, with Dee's character based on the then 22-year-old Nora Ephron, and directed by Henry Koster...
Winning Your Wings
Winning Your Wings was a 1942 propaganda short produced by the US Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force.
The film opens with a plane landing on a...
Small Town Girl
Small Town Girl (1936) is a film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, and James Stewart. The romantic comedy was directed by William A. Wellman.
Based on a novel by Ben Ames Williams, the film went through many changes before it reached the screen....
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 American film starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner, and co-starring Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. Released by MGM, it was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and featured...
The Stratton Story
The Stratton Story is a 1949 film directed by Sam Wood which tells the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934-1938.
James Stewart plays the part of Stratton, who in the off...
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. It was the basis for a 1965 and later 2004 film...
Made for Each Other
Made for Each Other is a 1939 film starring Carole Lombard and James Stewart as a couple who get married after only knowing each other very briefly.
No Time for Comedy
No Time for Comedy is a 1940 film based on the play of the same name by S. N. Behrman, starring James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles.
Gaylord Esterbrook (Stewart), a reporter from Redfield, Minnesota (pop. 786,...
After the Thin Man
After the Thin Man, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart, is the 1936 sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as Dashiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke...
Of Human Hearts
Of Human Hearts is a 1938 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. Bondi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In the days leading up to the American Civil War, a young...
It's a Wonderful World
It's a Wonderful World is a 1939 romantic screwball comedy starring James Stewart, Claudette Colbert and Frances Drake.
Detective Guy Johnson's (Stewart) client, Willie Heywood (Ernest Truex) is framed for murder and while Guy hides him so he can...
Two Rode Together
Two Rode Together (1961) is a western film directed by John Ford, and starring James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, and Linda Cristal. It was based on the novel Comanche Captives by Will Cook.
In the 1880s, Marshal Guthrie McCabe (Jimmy...
Magic Town
Magic Town (1947) is a comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, starring James Stewart and Jane Wyman. It is one of the first films about then-new science of public opinion polling. The movie was inspired by the Middletown studies.
Lawrence 'Rip'...
Born to Dance
Born to Dance (1936) is an American musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and directed by Roy Del Ruth.
The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and was a follow-up to her successful debut in Broadway Melody of 1936. The plot of Born to Dance...
The Rare Breed
The Rare Breed is a 1966 American western film starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills and Ben Johnson and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Loosely based on the life of rancher William Burgess, the film follows Martha Price...
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its storyline is supported by lavish...
Dear Brigitte
Dear Brigitte is a 1965 family-comedy starring James Stewart and directed by Henry Koster. Stewart stars as a college professor of a genius son, the precocious Erasmus (Bill Mumy). After using his skills for gambling at the horse track, Erasmus...
