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John Cazale
John Holland Cazale was an American actor. He appeared in five films over seven years. Cazale started as a theater actor in Boston, ranging from regional, to off-Broadway, to Broadway acting alongside Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Sam Waterston. Cazale soon became one of Hollywood's premier character actors, starting with his role as the doomed, weak-minded Fredo Corleone alongside longtime friend…
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entertainment · American actor (1935–1978) · film actor · actor · character actor · television actor · stage actor · also John Cazale, Cazale
Born 12 August 1935 · Died 13 March 1978 · Q296177
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El Universal: Robert De Niro cumple 83 años; así apoyó al actor John Cazale cuando fue diagnosticado con cáncer y productores buscaban expulsarlo de la película que hacían juntos
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2026· 5 entries
El Universal: Robert De Niro cumple 83 años; así apoyó al actor John Cazale cuando fue diagnosticado con cáncer y productores buscaban expulsarlo de la película que hacían juntos
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Pulso Diario San Luis: Robert De Niro apoyó a John Cazale durante su cáncer
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iHeart: John Cazale: The Greatest Actor You Don't Know - Our American Stories
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Far Out Magazine: The greatest 1940s actor of all time, according to John Cazale: “He knew what it was all about”
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2024· 1 entry
The New Yorker: John Cazale’s Barbaric Squawk
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2022· 1 entry
IrishCentral: John Cazale: Irish American Hollywood icon
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2016· 1 entry
Yahoo: Inside Meryl Streep's Bedside Vigil for Dying Boyfriend John Cazale and How She Found Love Again with Don Gummer
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2013· 1 entry
AV Club: On the anniversary of his death, revisit John Cazale's tragically short film career in I Knew It Was You
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2010· 3 entries
Los Angeles Times: 5 for 5: Actor John Cazale is more than an asterisk
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Wall Street Journal: Brett Ratner on the Legacy of John Cazale, a.k.a. Fredo
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Variety: I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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2009· 2 entries
Mental Floss: 5 Things You Didn't Know About John Cazale
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SFGate: Late actor John Cazale lionized in documentary
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1978· 1 entry
Died 1978-03-13.
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1977· 3 entries
In the title role of Agamemnon at the Vivian Beaumont Theater
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Likely related to his history of chain smoking
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Cazale was diagnosed with lung cancer, but chose to complete his role in The Deer Hunter (1978)
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1976· 2 entries
When he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Dog Day Afternoon
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Ten years after their first collaboration, Cazale and Pacino appeared together for the final time in the Public Theater's production of The Local Stigmatic
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1974· 1 entry
Reprised his role as Fredo Corleone, now significantly expanded, in The Godfather Part II
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1969· 1 entry
Cazale joined the Long Wharf Theatre Company, where he appeared for the next three seasons in a number of productions, including Tartuffe, The Country People, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Iceman Cometh, and You Can't Take
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1968· 2 entries
Cazale appeared in his only television role, playing Tom Andrews in the episode "The Peep Freak" on the cop drama N
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At the Off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre, for which they both won Obie Awards
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1966· 1 entry
The two were cast in a play by Israel Horovitz, The Indian Wants the Bronx, playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut
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1965· 1 entry
Cazale was part of the National Tour of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-08-12.
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