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James Caan
Known for: ActingJames 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).
Filmography 92
The Godfather
as Sonny Corleone 
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
as Tim Lockwood (voice) 
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
as Tim Lockwood (voice) 
Misery
as Paul Sheldon 
That's My Boy
as Father McNally 
Dogville
as The Big Man 
Get Smart
as The President 
A Bridge Too Far
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun 
Elf
as Walter 
Fast Charlie
as Stan Mullen 
Eraser
as DeGuerin 
Detachment
as Mr. Charles Seaboldt 
Flesh and Bone
as Roy Sweeney 
The Yards
as Frank Olchin 
New York, I Love You
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist 
Henry's Crime
as Max Saltzman 
Blood Ties
as Leon 
Back in the Game
as Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr. 
Thief
as Frank 
El Dorado
as Mississippi 
Bottle Rocket
as Mr. Abe Henry 
Dick Tracy
as Spaldoni 
Con Man
as Agent Gamble 
Mickey Blue Eyes
as Frank Vitale 
The Way of the Gun
as Joe Sarno 
Bulletproof
as Frank Colton 
Middle Men
as Jerry Haggerty 
The Outsider
as Schuuster 
The Gambler
as Axel 
Rollerball
as Jonathan E. 
Gardens of Stone
as Sgt. Clell Hazard 
The Good Neighbor
as Harold Grainey 
Alien Nation
as Matthew Sykes 
Honeymoon in Vegas
as Tommy Korman 
Altman
as Self 
Santa's Slay
as Darren Mason 
The Killer Elite
as Mike Locken 
Funny Lady
as Billy Rose 
The Program
as Sam Winters 
Small Apartments
as Mr. Allspice 
Queen Bees
as Dan 
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
as Self (voice) 
City of Ghosts
as Marvin 
For the Boys
as Eddie Sparks 
Freebie and the Bean
as Freebie 
For the Love of Money
as Micky 
Wisegal
as Salvatore Palmeri 
Undercover Grandpa
as Grandpa 
J.L. Family Ranch
as Tap 
Out of Blue
as Col. Tom Rockwell 
The Glory Guys
as Pvt. Anthony Dugan 
Comes a Horseman
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn 
Seduced and Abandoned
as Self 
The Dark Backward
as Dr. Scurvy 
In the Shadows
as Lance Huston 
Slither
as Dick Kanipsia 
Harry and Walter Go to New York
as Harry Digby 
Kiss Me Goodbye
as Jolly 
Games
as Paul Montgomery 
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self 
Brian's Song
as Brian Piccolo 
Lady in a Cage
as Randall Simpson O'Connell 
The Throwaways
as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden 
A Fighting Man
as Mike 'Brother' Albright 
The Rain People
as Jimmy Kilgannon 
King on Screen
as Self 
The Red Maple Leaf
as Senator George Lawrence Secord 
Holy Lands
as Harry 
Hide in Plain Sight
as Thomas Hacklin, Jr. 
Night at the Golden Eagle
as Prison Warden 
Journey to Shiloh
as Buck Burnett 
Another Man, Another Chance
as David Williams 
Gone with the West
as Jud McGraw 
North Star
as Sean McLennon 
Red Line 7000
as Mike 
Wuthering High
as Earnshaw 
This Is My Father
as Kieran Johnson 
Countdown
as Lee Stegler 
Submarine X-1
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR 
Rabbit, Run
as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom 
Chuck Zito: An American Story
as Self 
Cinderella Liberty
as John Baggs Jr. 
T.R. Baskin
as Larry Moore 
Preggoland
as Walter 
His Way
as Self 
Mercy
as Gerry Ryan 
Blood Crime
as Sheriff Morgan McKenna 
Chapter Two
as George Schneider 
Sicilian Vampire
as Professor Bernard Issaacs 
This Thing of Ours
as Jimmy