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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Caan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Caan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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
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Filmmaker
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
It Takes a Lunatic
Middle Men
The Wide Country
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Eraser
Bulletproof
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Flesh and Bone
El Dorado
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Earth and the American Dream
Fast Charlie
The Godfather
T.R. Baskin
Elf
Lady in a Cage
Las Vegas
Alien Nation
Poodle Springs
Gardens of Stone
The Gambler
Misery
Red Line 7000
Thief
Production Credits
The Godfather Part II
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
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