Walter Brennan

. James Cagney died of a heart attack while ill with diabetes in Stanfordville, New York at the age of 86 and is interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York. On his death in 1974, Walter Brennan was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. The origin of this is from the 1931 film Taxi! where Cagney delivered the line "Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!" often misquoted as "Come out, you dirty rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!". He was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1970. The stereotypical impression of James Cagney involves wearing a trenchcoat and a hat and sneering "You dirty rat!", a line he never said. He also made a few recordings, the most popular being "Old Rivers" in 1962. As a tribute to the myriad talents and interests James Cagney had in life, his pallbearers included boxer Floyd Patterson, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, actor Ralph Bellamy, and film director Milos Forman.

In the 1950s, he starred in the television series The Real McCoys, and appeared in several other movies and television programs, usually as an eccentric "old-timer". Cagney's health deteriorated substantially after 1979, and the role in Ragtime, as well as a later television appearance in 1984, was designed to aid in his convalescence. Other films included Red River, Rio Bravo, My Darling Clementine, Meet John Doe, The Pride of the Yankees, To Have and Have Not, Bad Day at Black Rock and How the West Was Won. In 1974 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Institute and in 1984 his friend Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After working as an extra and a stunt man, he began receiving more substantial roles in the 1930s, culminating with the receiving of the very first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1937 for Come and Get It. During this hiatus Cagney rebuffed all film offers, including a substantial one in My Fair Lady, to devote time to learning how to paint (at which he became very accomplished), and tending to his beloved farm in Stanfordville, New York. After serving in World War I, he moved to Guatemala and raised pineapples, before settling in Los Angeles, California. Cagney's final appearance on film was in Ragtime in 1981, capping a career that covered over seventy films, although his film prior to Ragtime had been in 1961 with One, Two, Three.

While in school, he became interested in acting, and began to perform in vaudeville. He was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and president of the Guild from 1942-44. Brennan was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and studied engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He went on to better things including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), an Academy Award-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), White Heat (1949, "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"), and Mister Roberts (1955). He holds the distinction of having won more Academy Awards for acting than any other male actor. Cagney went on to star in numerous films, making his name as a 'tough guy' in a series of crime films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Blonde Crazy (1931) and Hard to Handle (1933). Walter Brennan, (25 July 1894 - 21 September 1974) was a veteran character actor, notably in westerns. When Warner Brothers bought the film rights to the play Penny Arcade they took Cagney and his co-star Joan Blondell from the stage to the screen in Sinner's Holiday (1930).

1937 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Come and Get It. He worked in vaudeville and on Broadway, marrying the dancer Frances Willard (aka: "Billie") Vernon on September 28, 1922. 1939 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Kentucky. Born in Yonkers, New York, Cagney graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1918. 1941 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Westerner. James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899–March 30, 1986) was an American film actor. 1942 - Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Sergeant York.