James Caan
Acting
Born 1940-03-26
Died 2022-07-06
The Bronx, New York, USA
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James Edmund Caan (March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor who was nominated for several awards, including four Golden Globes, an Emmy, and an Oscar. Caan was awarded a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978.
After early roles in Howard Hawks's El Dorado (1966), Robert Altman's Countdown (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), he came to prominence for playing his signature role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) with a cameo appearance at the end.
Caan had significant roles in films such as Brian's Song (1971), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Gambler (1974), Rollerball (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Alan J. Pakula's Comes a Horseman (1978). He had sporadically worked in film since the 1980s, with his notable performances including roles in Thief (1981), Gardens of Stone (1987), Misery (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Bottle Rocket (1996), The Yards (2000), Dogville (2003), and Elf (2003).
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Hawaii Five-0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Ciné regards
The Godfather
The Mike Douglas Show
Las Vegas
Golden Globe Awards
Crossing Jordan
The Godfather Part II
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Get Smart
Dr. Kildare
The Untouchables
Naked City
Combat!
The F.B.I.
Film '72
NewsRadio
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Elf
Fast Charlie
Get Smart
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
That's My Boy
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Misery
Biography
A Bridge Too Far
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Eraser
Dogville
Dick Tracy
Annoying Orange
New York, I Love You
Detachment
El Dorado
The Yards
Thief
1941
Leçon de Cinéma
Blood Ties
Irma la Douce
Bottle Rocket
Silent Movie
Henry's Crime
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Rollerball
Bulletproof
The American West
Middle Men
The Way of the Gun
Mickey Blue Eyes
Alien Nation
The Wide Country
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Writing
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