James Caan - Overview

Date of Birth: Mar 26, 1939

Place of Birth: Bronx, New York

Nationality: American

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After some stage experience, James Caan began his film career with an uncredited bit part in "Irma La Douce" (1963). Tall and curly-haired, with a ruddy complexion, Caan gained prominence in the early 1970s with two powerful performances: as the cancer-stricken football player in the made-for-TV-movie "Brian's Song" (ABC, 1971) and as the hot-tempered eldest son Santino "Sonny" Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" (1972). He used the stardom he derived from playing Sonny Corleone in the latter to star in Karel Reisz's "The Gambler" (1974). That same year, he co-starred with Alan Arkin in "Freebie and the Bean" before moving on to play a sailor who falls for Marsha Mason in "Cinderella Liberty" (1975). He oozed charm (and displayed a passable singing voice) as Billy Rose opposite Barbra Streisand's redux as Fanny Brice in "Funny Lady" (1975), but most of Caan's films had neither box office success nor prestige. He had a good turn, again opposite Mason, in the film version of Neil Simon's autobiographical play "Chapter Two" (1979), although it was not ... Read More

Filmography (62)

Middle Men (2010)

Mercy (2010)

Inside the Actors Studio (2009)

New York, I Love You (2009)

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Get Smart (2008)

Photos (1)

Milestones (57)

2010
Cast opposite his son Scott Caan in "Mercy"; film also written and produced by his son

2009
Voiced Flint's father in the animated feature "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"

2008
Cast as The President in the film adaptation of "Get Smart," based on the 1960s spy parody television series

2004
Appeared as The Big Man in Lars von Trier's "Dogville"

2003
Cast in the mafia drama feature "This Thing Of Ours"

2003
Played Will Ferrell's biological father a cold-hearted children's book publishing executive in the comedy, "Elf"

2003 - 2007
Cast as Big Ed Deline, the head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino in the NBC drama "Las Vegas"; left the show's after the fourth season

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