James Caan
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Biography
James Edmund Caan (/kɑːn/ KAHN; 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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Known For
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Get Smart
The Simpsons
Route 66
Family Guy
NewsRadio
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Crossing Jordan
Dr. Kildare
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
Hawaii Five-0
1941
The Godfather Part II
Silent Movie
The American West
The Movies That Made Us
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
That's My Boy
Dogville
Detachment
Get Smart
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
It Takes a Lunatic
'The Godfather' Family: A Look Inside
The Wide Country
Middle Men
The Godfather
Kraft Suspense Theatre
El Dorado
The Godfather Epic: 1901-1959
Earth and the American Dream
The Godfather Trilogy
Fast Charlie
Filmmaker
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
T.R. Baskin
Bulletproof
Flesh and Bone
Eraser
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Lady in a Cage
Las Vegas
Elf
Gardens of Stone
Misery
Red Line 7000
The Gambler
Thief
Poodle Springs
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