Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 26, 1940
Died
Jul 06, 2022
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, USA
Credits
174 titles
James Caan
Biography
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).
Known For
Filmography
Chuck Zito: An American Story
Self
Fast Charlie
Stan Mullen
King on Screen
Self
Secrets of Playboy
Self
Queen Bees
Dan
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
Self
JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift
Tap
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
Out of Blue
Col. Tom Rockwell
Holy Lands
Harry
Con Man
Agent Gamble
Good Enough
Roger Flynn
Undercover Grandpa
Grandpa
The Red Maple Leaf
Senator George Lawrence Secord
The Good Neighbor
Harold Grainey
J.L. Family Ranch
Tap
The American West
Self
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Santino "Sonny" Corleone
Sicilian Vampire
Professor Bernard Issaacs
The Outsider
Schuuster
Wuthering High
Earnshaw
The Throwaways
Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Preggoland
Walter
Altman
Self
A Fighting Man
Mike 'Brother' Albright
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Tim Lockwood (voice)
Back in the Game
Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr.
Blood Ties
Leon
Seduced and Abandoned
Self
The Godfather Legacy
Self
That's My Boy
Father McNally
For the Love of Money
Micky
Small Apartments
Mr. Allspice
Detachment
Mr. Charles Seaboldt
His Way
Self
Hawaii Five-0
Tony Archer
Henry's Crime
Max Saltzman
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Self (voice)
Mercy
Gerry Ryan
Annoying Orange
Jalapeño
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Tim Lockwood (voice)
Middle Men
Jerry Haggerty
Hollywood Gangster
Self
The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
Self
New York, I Love You
Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
Get Smart
The President
Wisegal
Salvatore Palmeri
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
Brando
Self