James Caan
Known for Acting · 169 credits
- Born
- 1940-03-26
- Died
- 2022-07-06
- 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.
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
TV Shows (31)
The Simpsons
1989
as James Caan (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Family Guy
1999
as James Caan (voice)
Hawaii Five-0
2010
as Tony Archer
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Guest
Crossing Jordan
2001
as Ed Deline
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee / Presenter
Las Vegas
2003
as Ed Deline
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Jay Shaw / Phil Beldone
Get Smart
1965
as Rupert of Rathskeller (uncredited)
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Charley Johnson
Ben Casey
1961
The Untouchables
1959
as Keir Brannon
Naked City
1958
as Marty Feketi
The F.B.I.
1965
as Eugene David Holt
Combat!
1962
as Sgt. Beckman
Route 66
1960
NewsRadio
1995
as James Caan (uncredited)
Film '72
1971
as Self
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Rick Peterson
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self
Biography
1987
as Self
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
as Self
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
as Self
The American West
2016
as Self
Back in the Game
2013
as Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr.
The Wide Country
1962
as Buddie Simpson
Secrets of Playboy
2022
as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Movies (138)
The Godfather
1972
as Sonny Corleone
The Godfather Part II
1974
as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2009
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
Misery
1990
as Paul Sheldon
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
Elf
2003
as Walter
Eraser
1996
as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin
Get Smart
2008
as The President
That's My Boy
2012
as Father McNally
New York, I Love You
2008
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
Detachment
2011
as Mr. Charles Seaboldt
Dogville
2003
as The Big Man
Thief
1981
as Frank
El Dorado
1966
as Mississippi
A Bridge Too Far
1977
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
1941
1979
as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
Dick Tracy
1990
as Spaldoni
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
Rollerball
1975
as Jonathan E.
Fast Charlie
2023
as Stan Mullen
Bulletproof
1996
as Frank Colton
The Yards
2000
as Frank Olchin
Irma la Douce
1963
as Soldier with Radio (uncredited)
Alien Nation
1988
as Matthew Sykes
The Program
1993
as Sam Winters
Blood Ties
2013
as Leon
Bottle Rocket
1996
as Mr. Abe Henry
Funny Lady
1975
as Billy Rose
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009
as Self (voice)
The Good Neighbor
2016
as Harold Grainey
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001
as Self
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
as Sonny Corleone
Undercover Grandpa
2017
as Grandpa
The Way of the Gun
2000
as Joe Sarno
Middle Men
2009
as Jerry Haggerty
Henry's Crime
2010
as Max Saltzman
Small Apartments
2012
as Mr. Allspice
Wuthering High
2015
as Earnshaw
Mickey Blue Eyes
1999
as Frank Vitale
His Way
2011
as Self
Con Man
2018
as Agent Gamble
Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
Altman
2014
as Self
Silent Movie
1976
as Self
The Gambler
1974
as Axel
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
as Tommy Korman
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Comes a Horseman
1978
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
Holy Lands
2019
as Harry
For the Boys
1991
as Eddie Sparks
The Killer Elite
1975
as Mike Locken
Flesh and Bone
1993
as Roy Sweeney
The Throwaways
2015
as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
J.L. Family Ranch
2016
as Tap
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
as Self / Sonny Corleone / Michael Corleone
Countdown
1967
as Lee Stegler
The Outsider
2015
as Schuuster
Red Line 7000
1965
as Mike
Games
1967
as Paul Montgomery
Brando
2007
as Self
Bolero
1981
as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
Freebie and the Bean
1974
as Freebie
Gardens of Stone
1987
as Sgt. Clell Hazard
Queen Bees
2021
as Dan
Harry and Walter Go to New York
1976
as Harry Digby
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992
as Self (uncredited)
T.R. Baskin
1971
as Larry Moore
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
as Self
The Rain People
1969
as Jimmy Kilgannon
Santa's Slay
2005
as Darren Mason
JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift
2020
as Tap
Chuck Zito: An American Story
2024
as Self
Journey to Shiloh
1968
as Buck Burnett
For the Love of Money
2012
as Micky
Wisegal
2008
as Salvatore Palmeri
Cinderella Liberty
1973
as John Baggs Jr.
Out of Blue
2019
as Col. Tom Rockwell
Warden of Red Rock
2001
as John Flinders
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
as Jolly
The Glory Guys
1965
as Pvt. Anthony Dugan
The Red Maple Leaf
2017
as Senator George Lawrence Secord
Slither
1973
as Dick Kanipsia
City of Ghosts
2002
as Marvin
North Star
1996
as Sean McLennon
It Takes a Lunatic
2019
as Self
Lathe of Heaven
2002
as Dr. William Haber
The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
2008
as Self
Poodle Springs
1998
as Philip Marlowe
Lady in a Cage
1964
as Randall Simpson O'Connell
The Godfather and the Mob
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
1985
Night at the Golden Eagle
2002
as Prison Warden
Another Man, Another Chance
1977
as David Williams
Filmmaker
1968
as Self (uncredited)
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
as Self
Rabbit, Run
1970
as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom
Mercy
2009
as Gerry Ryan
Submarine X-1
1968
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR
Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels
2004
Brian's Song
1971
as Brian Piccolo
In the Shadows
2001
as Lance Huston
The Dark Backward
1991
as Dr. Scurvy
A Fighting Man
2014
as Mike 'Brother' Albright
Superstunt
1977
as Self
King on Screen
2023
as Self
Gone with the West
1975
as Jud McGraw
Chapter Two
1979
as George Schneider
A Glimpse of Hell
2001
as Capt. Fred Moosally
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
This Is My Father
1999
as Kieran Johnson
Luckytown
2000
as Charlie Doyles
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999
The Godfather Legacy
2012
as Self
Preggoland
2014
as Walter
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
1999
as Self
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975
as Self
Sicilian Vampire
2015
as Professor Bernard Issaacs
Rickles
1975
A Boy Called Hate
1996
as Jim
About James Caan
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 Acto… With 169 credits spanning from 1944 to 2024, James Caan has appeared in 138 films and 31 TV shows.
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Most Popular James Caan Movies
- The Godfather (1972) — as Sonny Corleone
- The Godfather Part II (1974) — as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) — as Tim Lockwood (voice)
- Misery (1990) — as Paul Sheldon
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) — as Tim Lockwood (voice)
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