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James Caan
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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…
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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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2024
Chuck Zito: An American Story
Movie Self
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2023
Fast Charlie
Movie Stan Mullen
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2023
King on Screen
Movie Self
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2022
Secrets of Playboy
TV show Self
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2021
Queen Bees
Movie Dan
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2020
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
TV show Self
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2020
JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift
Movie Tap
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2019
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie Self
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2019
Out of Blue
Movie Col. Tom Rockwell
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2019
Holy Lands
Movie Harry
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2018
Con Man
Movie Agent Gamble
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2017
Good Enough
Movie Roger Flynn
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2017
Undercover Grandpa
Movie Grandpa
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2017
The Red Maple Leaf
Movie Senator George Lawrence Secord
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2016
The Good Neighbor
Movie Harold Grainey
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2016
J.L. Family Ranch
Movie Tap
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2016
The American West
TV show Self
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2016
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Movie Santino "Sonny" Corleone
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2015
Sicilian Vampire
Movie Professor Bernard Issaacs
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2015
The Outsider
Movie Schuuster
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2015
Wuthering High
Movie Earnshaw
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2015
The Throwaways
Movie Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
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2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Movie Self - Actor (archive footage)
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2014
Preggoland
Movie Walter
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2014
Altman
Movie Self
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2014
A Fighting Man
Movie Mike 'Brother' Albright
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2013
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Movie Tim Lockwood (voice)
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2013
Back in the Game
TV show Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr.
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2013
Blood Ties
Movie Leon
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2013
Seduced and Abandoned
Movie Self
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2012
The Godfather Legacy
Movie Self
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2012
That's My Boy
Movie Father McNally
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2012
For the Love of Money
Movie Micky
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2012
Small Apartments
Movie Mr. Allspice
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2011
Detachment
Movie Mr. Charles Seaboldt
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2011
His Way
Movie Self
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2010
Hawaii Five-0
TV show Tony Archer
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2010
Henry's Crime
Movie Max Saltzman
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2009
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Movie Self (voice)
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2009
Mercy
Movie Gerry Ryan
