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James Caan

26 Mar, 1940 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Caan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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James Edmund Caan Jimmy Caan詹姆斯·凯恩

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Misery
78% (1990)
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Elf
67% (2003)
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Silent Movie
66% (1976)
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Thief
72% (1981)
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El Dorado
74% (1966)
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The Gambler
68% (1974)
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His Way
60% (2011)
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Mercy
55% (2009)
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Submarine X-1
60% (1968)
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Detachment
77% (2011)
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Games
60% (1967)
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Dead Simple
60% (2001)
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Rabbit, Run
35% (1970)
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T.R. Baskin
50% (1971)
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Altman
64% (2014)
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Preggoland
59% (2014)
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Brando
68% (2007)
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Con Man
52% (2018)
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1941
59% (1979)
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Holy Lands
61% (2019)