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James Edmund Caan (/ k ɑː n / KAHN; March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor.He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972) – a performance that earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
In the film, Sonny was portrayed by James Caan, who briefly reprised his role for a flashback scene in The Godfather Part II. Director Francis Ford Coppola 's son Roman Coppola played Sonny as a boy in the 1920s scenes of The Godfather Part II .
James Caan, whose indelible, Oscar-nominated performance as Sonny Corleone, the recklessly hotheaded son of Marlon Brando’s Mafia don in “The Godfather,” is sure to be remembered as long as ...
James Caan attends a 2016 event for the Hallmark Channel in Beverly Hills. ... Caan, best known for his Oscar-nominated turn as Sonny Corleone in 1972’s “The Godfather,” died on July 6 at 82.
James Caan, the Oscar- and Emmy ... ill-fated gangster Sonny Corleone — brother to Al Pacino’s Michael and son to Marlon Brando’s Don Vito — in the all-time classic, 1972’s The Godfather
Ruddy is unnerved when he witnesses Colombo and his men aggressively intimidate the Staten Island homeowner into allowing the film to use the location. Ruddy convinces Bluhdorn to approve casting Pacino, again going behind Evans' back. Evans is furious and orders the role of Sonny Corleone must be played by James Caan, to which
James Caan, the brawny star who played Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and a rough-and-tumble athlete in Rollerball but had the self-assurance to showcase a sensitive side during his long career ...
James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and to television audiences as both the dying football player in the classic ...