James Caan
James Caan
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Caan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Sherriff Doyle
as Self
as Stan Mullen
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self. Actor & Playboy Mansion Regular.
as Dan
as Self
as Self
as Col. Tom Rockwell
as Harry
as Agent Gamble
as Roger Flynn
as Grandpa
as Senator George Lawrence Secord
as Harold Grainey
as Tap
as Self
as Professor Bernard Issaacs
as Earnshaw
as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Walter
as Self
as Mike 'Brother' Albright
as Schuuster
as Self (archive footage)
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
as Leon
as Self
as Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr.
as Self
as Father McNally
as Micky
as Mr. Allspice
as Mr. Charles Seaboldt
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Max Saltzman
as Tony Archer
as Self (voice)
as Gerry Ryan
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
as Jerry Haggerty
as Self
as Self
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
as The President
as Salvatore Palmeri
as Self
as Self (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Darren Mason
as Jimmy
as Mr. Harry Dewitt
as Self
as Walter
as The Big Man
as Leonard Grey
as Self
as Ed Deline
as Sheriff Morgan McKenna
as Marvin
as Dr. William Haber
as Self (archive footage)
as Prison Warden
as Roy Baker
as Lance Huston
as John Flinders
as Capt. Fred Moosally
as Ed Deline
as Joe Sarno
as Charlie Doyles
as Frank Olchin
as Frank Vitale
as Kieran Johnson
as James Caan (voice)
as Philip Marlowe
as Self
as Frank Colton
as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin
as Jim
as Mr. Abe Henry
as Sean McLennon
as Self - Guest
as James Caan (uncredited)
as Self
as Roy Sweeney
as Sam Winters
as Sonny Corleone
as Reader (voice)
as Tommy Korman
as Self (uncredited)
as Eddie Sparks
as Dr. Scurvy
as Paul Sheldon
as Self / Sonny Corleone / Michael Corleone
as Spaldoni
as James Caan (voice)
as Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes
as Sgt. Clell Hazard
as Jolly
as Self
as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
as Frank
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
as George Schneider
as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
as Self (uncredited)
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
as David Williams
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
as Self
as Harry Digby
as Mike Locken
as Jud McGraw
as Jonathan E.
as Billy Rose
as Self
as Freebie
as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
as Axel Freed
as John Baggs Jr.
as Dick Kanipsia
as Sonny Corleone
as Brian Piccolo
as Larry Moore
as Self
as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom
as Jimmy Kilgannon
as Self (uncredited)
as Buck Burnett
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR
as Paul Montgomery
as Lee Stegler
as Self
as Mississippi
as Mike
as Pvt. Anthony Dugan
as Eugene David Holt
as Rupert of Rathskeller (uncredited)
as Randall Simpson O'Connell
as Soldier with Radio (uncredited)
as Rick Peterson
as Sgt. Beckman
as Buddie Simpson
as Jay Shaw / Phil Beldone
as Self
as Charley Johnson
as Keir Brannon
as Marty Feketi
as Self - Nominee
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as Director
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as Thanks
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as Writer