
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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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Get Smart

The Simpsons

Route 66

Family Guy

NewsRadio

The F.B.I.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Golden Globe Awards

Crossing Jordan

Dr. Kildare

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Secrets of Playboy

The Holiday Movies That Made Us

Hawaii Five-0

1941

The Godfather Part II

Silent Movie

The American West

The Movies That Made Us

New York, I Love You

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

Dogville

That's My Boy

Get Smart

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

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Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

Filmmaker

The Wide Country

It Takes a Lunatic

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

Middle Men

Flesh and Bone

Fast Charlie

The Godfather

Eraser

Bulletproof

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

Earth and the American Dream

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

El Dorado

T.R. Baskin

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Las Vegas

Lady in a Cage

Elf

Thief

Misery

Gardens of Stone

Poodle Springs

Alien Nation

Red Line 7000

The Gambler
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