James Cagney, First Martial Artist To Star In A Movie
Academy Award winning actor*, James Cagney (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) gained fame and won major awards for a wide variety of roles.
Cagney is best remembered for playing “tough guys.”
In 1999, he was even ranked #8 among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Today, I would like to share something astonishing with my readers that most people certainly do not know.
Not only a proficient boxer, James Cagney was also a certified Judo black belt!
James Cagney starred in the 1945 movie Blood On the Sun, which contained one of the most impressive fight scenes ever shown in a movie. Seriously.
Casually known as “The Professional Againster”, Cagney was definitely the real deal and insisted on performing his own stunts. Thus, Cagney required judo training from expert Ken Kuniyuki and Jack Halloran, who was a former cop.
I was able to find a clip that shows Cagney and Halloran going at it without all the special effects that are available to moviemakers nowadays.
Remember that this movie was made almost 70 (seventy) years ago!
Enjoy James Cagney, First Martial Artist To Star In A Movie!
*Academy Award for Best Actor in “Yankee Doodle Dandy” in 1942.
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January 29, 2010