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James Caan
James Edmund Caan was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978.
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Born 26 March 1940 · Died 6 July 2022 · Q95043
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2026· 2 entries
AOL: The Godfather's James Caan Almost Lost Sonny Corleone To This Hollywood Legend
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Why James Caan Was Dismayed When He Met Will Ferrell While Making “Elf”: 'It's All a Sham'
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collider: 10 Essential James Caan Movies, Ranked
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collider: Bet You Never Noticed What James Caan Did To Get Into Character As Sonny Corleone — and It Was Right in Front of You
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2023· 1 entry
Appeared with Pierce Brosnan in the film Fast Charlie, his final film role
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2022· 13 entries
The Guardian: James Caan: my lunches, fallouts and golf-shoe hunts with the Hollywood legend
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The Guardian: James Caan obituary
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The Guardian: James Caan: some of The Godfather star's most memorable scenes – video
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The Guardian: James Caan: the hard-working star who mixed the rough with the smooth
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The Guardian: James Caan: a life in pictures
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The Guardian: The Godfather star James Caan dies aged 82
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Variety: James Caan Completed Filming Mob Thriller ‘Fast Charlie’ Before His Death
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MarketWatch: James Caan, who starred in ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Misery’ and ‘Elf,’ has died at 82
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katc: Godfather actor James Caan dead at age 82
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AOL: ‘Godfather’ and ‘Elf’ actor James Caan dies at 82, family announces with ‘great sadness’
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Caan died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 82, from a heart attack caused by coronary artery disease
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Died 2022-07-06.
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“Há coisas que me irritam. Uma delas é aparecer no genérico: “Um filme de James Cameron...” O que interessa isso?”
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2021· 3 entries
Caan was announced to be a member of the cast of Coppola's longtime passion project Megalopolis
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“s longtime passion project Megalopolis. Caan petitioned Coppola for a cameo appearance as he saw this film as his potential swan song, leading Coppola to create Nush”
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Appeared in Queen Bees with Ellen Burstyn and Ann-Margret
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2019· 1 entry
Starred in Carol Morley's crime drama Out of Blue
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2017· 1 entry
Caan filed for divorce in 2017, citing irreconcilable differences.
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2015· 1 entry
At the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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2014· 1 entry
Caan appeared in the dramatic comedy Preggoland, playing a father who is disappointed with his daughter's lack of ambition, but who becomes overjoyed when she (falsely) announces that she is pregnant
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2013· 1 entry
Caan portrayed Chicago mob kingpin Sy Berman in the Starz TV drama Magic City
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2012· 1 entry
Caan was a guest star on the re-imagined Hawaii Five-0 TV series, playing opposite his son, Scott Caan who played Danny "Danno" Williams
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2007· 1 entry
Caan announced that he would not return to the show for its fifth season to return to film work; he was replaced by Tom Selleck
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2003· 1 entry
Caan portrayed Jimmy the Con in the film This Thing of Ours, whose associate producer was Sonny Franzese, longtime mobster and underboss of the Colombo crime family
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1999· 1 entry
The Guardian: James Caan: ‘The studio thought The Godfather was a piece of garbage’
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1998· 1 entry
Caan portrayed Philip Marlowe in the HBO film Poodle Springs
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1996· 1 entry
Appeared in North Star, a Western; Bottle Rocket, the directorial debut of Wes Anderson; Eraser, with Arnold Schwarzenegger; and Bulletproof with Adam Sandler and Damon Wayans
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1995· 1 entry
Had two sons, James Arthur Caan (born 1995) and Jacob Nicholas Caan (born 1998)
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1994· 1 entry
Caan was arrested and released after being accused by a Los Angeles rap artist of pulling a gun on him
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1992· 2 entries
Visiting him on the set of Flesh and Bone in Texas
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“a lot of mediocrity was produced. Because I think that directors got to the point where they made themselves too important. They didn”
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1990· 1 entry
Caan was married to Ingrid Hajek from September 1990 to March 1994; they had a son, Alexander James Caan, born 1991.
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1987· 1 entry
When Coppola cast him as an army platoon sergeant for the 3rd U
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1982· 1 entry
According to a conversation intercepted by the FBI between Caan and mobster Anthony Fiato, Caan requested that Fiato assault actor Joe Pesci over Pesci failing to pay an $8,000 bill to a hotel
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1978· 1 entry
Caan directed Hide in Plain Sight, a film about a father searching for his children, who were lost in the Witness Protection Program
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1977· 1 entry
Caan rated several of his movies out of ten – The Godfather (10), Freebie and the Bean (4), Cinderella Liberty (8), The Gambler (8), Funny Lady (9), Rollerball (8), The Killer Elite (5), Harry and Walter Go to New York (
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1976· 2 entries
Their son, Scott Caan, also an actor, was born August 23, 1976.
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Was short-lived; they divorced the following year
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1971· 1 entry
Caan was known to socialize with Carmine Persico, also known as "The Snake", a notorious mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family
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1970· 1 entry
“was a film I really wanted to do, really wanted to be involved with.”
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1965· 1 entry
Caan landed his first starring role in Howard Hawks' auto-racing drama Red Line 7000
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1961· 1 entry
Married Dee Jay Mathis; they divorced in 1966
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1940· 2 entries
In The Bronx, New York City, to Sophie (née Falkenstein; 1915–2016) and Arthur Caan (1909–1986), Jewish immigrants from Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland, Germany
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Born 1940-03-26.
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