James Stewart

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997), known as "Jimmy Stewart", was a celebrated American film, television and stage actor who also served as a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.

A graduate of Princeton University's architecture program, Stewart worked across a wide range of genres, from suspense films and westerns to comedies, family dramas and literary dramas. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor and received lifetime achievement honors from both the Academy and the Golden Globes. Many of his classic films, including It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Vertigo and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, have been selected for the National Film Registry and named on the American Film Institute's lists of the greatest films of the past century. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him third among the greatest male screen legends of the century. On screen and off, his steady, warm and upright public image made him deeply beloved by the American public, and he was often hailed as "the conscience of America".