Ranking The 30 Best Actors of All-Time
6. Jimmy Stewart
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James Maitland Stewart began his acting career on Broadway, and had his first film role alongside Spencer Tracy in the 1936 film Murder Man. He made a career as the ultimate self-effacing American every man, but later would graduate into darker roles in Hitchcock westerns and thrillers. In a career that spanned five decades, Stewart played real-life heroes and ordinary people, pioneers, lawmen, cowboys, military officers, politicians, businessmen, reporters, fools and wise men. In 1940, he would go on to win his first Academy Award for his performance in George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story.
