James Caan
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-03-26 (82 years old)
Deathday
2022-07-06
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
James Edmund Caan
Jimmy Caan
詹姆斯·凯恩
جیمز کان
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 Corleon...
Acting
1974
as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
2003
as The Big Man
1988
as Det. Sgt. Matthew Sykes
2011
as Self (archive footage)
1999
as Frank Vitale
2000
as Joe Sarno
1990
as Paul Sheldon
1998
as Philip Marlowe
2003
as Walter
1996
as Frank Colton
1976
as Self
1977
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
2009
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
1974
as Freebie
1981
as Frank
1966
as Mississippi
1975
as Jonathan E.
1975
as Mike Locken
2008
as The President
2002
as Marvin
2003
as Self
1991
as Eddie Sparks
1999
as Kieran Johnson
2005
as Darren Mason
1996
as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin
2002
as Dr. William Haber
1981
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
1992
as Tommy Korman
1967
as Lee Stegler
1996
as Mr. Abe Henry
1987
as Sgt. Clell Hazard
2001
as Lance Huston
1979
as George Schneider
1978
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
2008
as Self
1964
as Randall Simpson O'Connell
1981
as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
1965
as Pvt. Anthony Dugan
2002
as Sheriff Morgan McKenna
1974
as Axel
2011
as Self
2009
as Gerry Ryan
2001
as Capt. Fred Moosally
2009
as Jerry Haggerty
2000
as Charlie Doyles
1968
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR
1975
as Billy Rose
1980
as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
1971
as Brian Piccolo
1993
as Roy Sweeney
1993
as Sam Winters
1965
as Mike
2023
as Self
2008
as Salvatore Palmeri
2000
as Frank Olchin
1982
as Jolly
2010
as Max Saltzman
2002
as Prison Warden
2011
as Mr. Charles Seaboldt
2003
as Leonard Grey
1973
as John Baggs Jr.
1967
as Paul Montgomery
2012
as Mr. Allspice
1972
as Sonny Corleone
1973
as Dick Kanipsia
2012
as Father McNally
1969
as Jimmy Kilgannon
2002
as Self (archive footage)
2013
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
1963
as Soldier with Radio (uncredited)
2004
as Mr. Harry Dewitt
2001
as Roy Baker
1970
as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom
2012
as Micky
1977
as David Williams
1971
as Larry Moore
1976
as Harry Digby
2013
as Leon
1999
1996
as Sean McLennon
2013
as Self
1979
2014
as Mike 'Brother' Albright
2015
as Schuuster
2023
as Stan Mullen
1968
as Buck Burnett
1996
as Jim
2008
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
1975
as Jud McGraw
2023
as Self (archive footage)
2012
as Self
2014
as Self
2014
as Walter
2015
as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
2015
as Earnshaw
2016
as Harold Grainey
1971
2007
as Self
1990
as Self / Sonny Corleone / Michael Corleone
2006
as Self (archive footage)
2016
as Tap
2015
as Professor Bernard Issaacs
2001
as John Flinders
2005
as Jimmy
2018
as Agent Gamble
2007
1979
as Self (uncredited)
1991
as Dr. Scurvy
2017
as Grandpa
2019
as Col. Tom Rockwell
1979
as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
2017
as Senator George Lawrence Secord
1990
as Spaldoni
2001
1975
as Self
2019
as Harry
2021
as Dan
1968
as Self (uncredited)
2017
as Roger Flynn
1992
as Sonny Corleone
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self
2009
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
1992
as Reader (voice)
2008
2020
1997
1975
1992
as Self (uncredited)
1982
as Self
2006
as Self (uncredited)
2024
Production
1980
as Director
1974
as Thanks
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