# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-stewart
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:43:53.441Z

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name: "James Stewart"
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description: "That halting drawl carried an entire American ideal — the decent man in over his head who finds his spine. Stewart made doubt look heroic, and for half a century Hollywood built its moral center around his face."
tagline: "American actor and military officer (1908–1997)"
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birthDate: "1908-05-20"
deathDate: "1997-07-02"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart acted at Princeton, then moved to Broadway with Carry Nation in 1932. His first film role came in The Murder Man in 1935, but the breakthrough arrived with Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You in 1938. He won the Oscar for The Philadelphia Story in 1940, then left for World War II as a private pilot — he flew combat missions, commanded the 703d Bombardment Squadron, and rose to deputy commanding officer of the 2nd Bombardment Wing by 1947. He returned to star in It's a Wonderful Life in 1946, a flop that became a classic after its copyright lapsed in the 1970s. The second act belonged to Hitchcock: Rope, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo. He kept working through Anatomy of a Murder and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1962, then retired from the Air Force Reserve as a brigadier general in 1968. Eighty films across five decades, and the AFI called him the third-greatest male actor in American history.