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 (61)

Mercy (2010)

Inside the Actors Studio (2009)

New York, I Love You (2009)

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Get Smart (2008)

Naked Hollywood (2007)

Photos (1)

Milestones (30)

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

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

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

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

2002
Had lead role in the USA Network film "Hearts of Men"

2001
Cast in the fact-based drama about an explosion on the battleship the USS Iowa in "A Glimpse of Hell

2000
Portrayed a mob-connected NYC subway contractor in "The Yards"

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