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James Caan

1940-03-26

The 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.

James Caan in

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The Godfather

8.7 average rating
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The Godfather Part II

8.574 average rating
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Elf

6.653 average rating
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That's My Boy

5.813 average rating
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

6.629 average rating
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

6.4 average rating
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Detachment

7.7 average rating
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Fast Charlie

6.23 average rating
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Misery

7.8 average rating
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Get Smart

6.2 average rating
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A Bridge Too Far

7.2 average rating
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Eraser

6.1 average rating
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The Good Neighbor

6.191 average rating
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El Dorado

7.3 average rating
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Thief

7.167 average rating
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The Yards

6.2 average rating
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Rollerball

6.243 average rating
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New York, I Love You

5.948 average rating
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Dogville

7.8 average rating
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Irma la Douce

7.4 average rating