James Caan
108 movies · 21 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 26, 1940
- Died
- Jul 6, 2022 (age 82)
- Place of birth
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Also known as
- James Edmund Caan · Jimmy Caan
Biography
James 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.
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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).
Known for
James Caan: movies and TV shows
Acting (128)
- 2023 Fast Charlie
as Stan Mullen
- 2021 Queen Bees
as Dan
- 2020
- 2019 Out of Blue
as Col. Tom Rockwell
- 2019 Holy Lands
as Harry
- 2018 Con Man
as Agent Gamble
- 2017 Good Enough
as Roger Flynn
- 2017 Undercover Grandpa
as Grandpa
- 2017 The Red Maple Leaf
as Senator George Lawrence Secord
- 2016 The Good Neighbor
as Harold Grainey
- 2016 J.L. Family Ranch
as Tap
- 2015 Sicilian Vampire
as Professor Bernard Issaacs
- 2015 The Outsider
as Schuuster
- 2015 Wuthering High
as Earnshaw
- 2015 The Throwaways
as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
- 2014 Preggoland
as Walter
- 2014 A Fighting Man
as Mike 'Brother' Albright
- 2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
- 2013
- 2013 Blood Ties
as Leon
- 2012 That's My Boy
as Father McNally
- 2012 For the Love of Money
as Micky
- 2012 Small Apartments
as Mr. Allspice
- 2011 Detachment
as Mr. Charles Seaboldt
- 2010
- 2010 Henry's Crime
as Max Saltzman
- 2009 Mercy
as Gerry Ryan
- 2009
- 2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
- 2009 Middle Men
as Jerry Haggerty
- 2008 New York, I Love You
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
- 2008 Get Smart
as The President
- 2008 Wisegal
as Salvatore Palmeri
- 2005
- 2005 Santa's Slay
as Darren Mason
- 2004
- 2004 The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
as Mr. Harry Dewitt
- 2003 Elf
as Walter
- 2003
- 2003 Dogville
as The Big Man
- 2003 Jericho Mansions
as Leonard Grey
- 2002 Blood Crime
as Sheriff Morgan McKenna
- 2002 City of Ghosts
as Marvin
- 2002 Lathe of Heaven
as Dr. William Haber
- 2002 Night at the Golden Eagle
as Prison Warden
- 2002 This Thing of Ours
as Jimmy
- 2001
- 2001 Dead Simple
as Roy Baker
- 2001 In the Shadows
as Lance Huston
- 2001 Warden of Red Rock
as John Flinders
- 2001 A Glimpse of Hell
as Capt. Fred Moosally
- 2000 The Way of the Gun
as Joe Sarno
- 2000 Luckytown
as Charlie Doyles
- 2000 The Yards
as Frank Olchin
- 1999
- 1999 Mickey Blue Eyes
as Frank Vitale
- 1999 This Is My Father
as Kieran Johnson
- 1999
- 1998 Poodle Springs
as Philip Marlowe
- 1996 Bulletproof
as Frank Colton
- 1996 Eraser
as DeGuerin
- 1996 A Boy Called Hate
as Jim
- 1996 Bottle Rocket
as Mr. Abe Henry
- 1996 North Star
as Sean McLennon
- 1995
- 1993 Flesh and Bone
as Roy Sweeney
- 1993 The Program
as Sam Winters
- 1993
- 1992 The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Sonny Corleone
- 1992 Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
- 1992 Honeymoon in Vegas
as Tommy Korman
- 1991 For the Boys
as Eddie Sparks
- 1991 The Dark Backward
as Dr. Scurvy
- 1990 Misery
as Paul Sheldon
- 1990 Dick Tracy
as Spaldoni
- 1989
- 1988 Alien Nation
as Matthew Sykes
- 1987 Gardens of Stone
as Sgt. Clell Hazard
- 1985
- 1982 Kiss Me Goodbye
as Jolly
- 1981 Bolero
as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
- 1981 Thief
as Frank
- 1980 Hide in Plain Sight
as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
- 1979 Chapter Two
as George Schneider
- 1979 1941
as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
- 1978 Comes a Horseman
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
- 1977 Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television · TV
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone · 4 episodes
- 1977 Another Man, Another Chance
as David Williams
- 1977
- 1977 A Bridge Too Far
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
- 1976 Silent Movie
as James Caan
- 1976 Harry and Walter Go to New York
as Harry Digby
- 1975 The Killer Elite
as Mike Locken
- 1975
- 1975 Gone with the West
as Jud McGraw
- 1975 Rollerball
as Jonathan E.
- 1975 Funny Lady
as Billy Rose
- 1975
- 1974 Freebie and the Bean
as Freebie
- 1974 The Godfather Part II
as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
- 1974 The Gambler
as Axel
- 1973 Cinderella Liberty
as John Baggs Jr.
- 1973 Slither
as Dick Kanipsia
- 1972 The Godfather
as Sonny Corleone
- 1971 Brian's Song
as Brian Piccolo
- 1971 T.R. Baskin
as Larry Moore
- 1970 Rabbit, Run
as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom
- 1969 The Rain People
as Jimmy Kilgannon
- 1968 Journey to Shiloh
as Buck Burnett
- 1968 Submarine X-1
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR
- 1967 Games
as Paul Montgomery
- 1967 Countdown
as Lee Stegler
- 1966 El Dorado
as Mississippi
- 1965 Red Line 7000
as Mike
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 The Glory Guys
as Pvt. Anthony Dugan
- 1964 Lady in a Cage
as Randall Simpson O'Connell
- 1963
- 1963 Irma la Douce
as Soldier with Radio (uncredited)
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1959
- 1958
Behind the camera (3)
- 1987
- 1980 Hide in Plain Sight
Director
- 1974 The Godfather Part II
Thanks
Talk shows and appearances (45)
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 Secrets of Playboy
1 episode
- 2020 The Holiday Movies That Made Us
1 episode
- 2019
- 2016 The American West
8 episodes
- 2014
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004 Leçon de Cinéma
1 episode
- 2003
- 2001
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1997
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1992
- 1990
- 1987 Biography
1 episode
- 1982
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 Ciné regards
1 episode
- 1977
- 1975
- 1971 Film '72
3 episodes
- 1971
- 1968
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1 episode
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
3 episodes
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
4 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
3 episodes