James Caan
Born: 1940-03-26 in The Bronx, New York, USA
Died: 2022-07-06
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2024
- Chuck Zito: An American Story as Self
2023
- Fast Charlie as Stan Mullen
- King on Screen as Self
2022
- Secrets of Playboy as Self
2021
- Queen Bees as Dan
2020
- The Holiday Movies That Made Us as Self
- JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift as Tap
2019
- Holy Lands as Harry
- Out of Blue as Col. Tom Rockwell
- It Takes a Lunatic as Self
2018
- Con Man as Agent Gamble
2017
- Undercover Grandpa as Grandpa
- The Red Maple Leaf as Senator George Lawrence Secord
- Good Enough as Roger Flynn
2016
- The American West as Self
- The Good Neighbor as Harold Grainey
- The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
- J.L. Family Ranch as Tap
2015
- The Outsider as Schuuster
- The Throwaways as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
- Sicilian Vampire as Professor Bernard Issaacs
- Wuthering High as Earnshaw
2014
- Altman as Self
- Preggoland as Walter
- A Fighting Man as Mike 'Brother' Albright
- Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2013
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 as Tim Lockwood (voice)
- Blood Ties as Leon
- Back in the Game as Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr.
- Seduced and Abandoned as Self
2012
- That's My Boy as Father McNally
- Small Apartments as Mr. Allspice
- For the Love of Money as Micky
- The Godfather Legacy as Self
2011
- Detachment as Mr. Charles Seaboldt
- His Way as Self
2010
- Hawaii Five-0 as Tony Archer
- Henry's Crime as Max Saltzman
2009
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as Tim Lockwood (voice)
- Middle Men as Jerry Haggerty
- Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side as Self (voice)
- Mercy as Gerry Ryan
2008
- Get Smart as The President
- New York, I Love You as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
- Wisegal as Salvatore Palmeri
- The Making of 'Bottle Rocket' as Self
- Hollywood Gangster as Self
2007
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- Brando as Self
2006
- The Godfather and the Mob as Self (archive footage)
- The Phillie Phanatic Goes Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
2005
- Santa's Slay as Darren Mason
- Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2004
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie as Mr. Harry Dewitt
- Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels
- Elf: Film School for Kids as Self
- Elf: That's a Wrap as Self
2003
- Las Vegas as Ed Deline
- Elf as Walter
- Dogville as The Big Man
- Jericho Mansions as Leonard Grey
- Misery Loves Company as Self
2002
- City of Ghosts as Marvin
- Blood Crime as Sheriff Morgan McKenna
- Night at the Golden Eagle as Prison Warden
- Lathe of Heaven as Dr. William Haber
- This Thing of Ours as Jimmy
2001
- Crossing Jordan as Ed Deline
- In the Shadows as Lance Huston
- Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
- Warden of Red Rock as John Flinders
- A Glimpse of Hell as Capt. Fred Moosally
- Dead Simple as Roy Baker
2000
- The Yards as Frank Olchin
- The Way of the Gun as Joe Sarno
- Luckytown as Charlie Doyles
1999
- Family Guy as James Caan (voice)
- Mickey Blue Eyes as Frank Vitale
- Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
- This Is My Father as Kieran Johnson
- Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity as Self
- The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes' as Self
1998
- Poodle Springs as Philip Marlowe
1997
- Howard Hawks: American Artist as Self
1996
- Eraser as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- Bulletproof as Frank Colton
- Bottle Rocket as Mr. Abe Henry
- North Star as Sean McLennon
- A Boy Called Hate as Jim
1995
- NewsRadio as James Caan (uncredited)
1994
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Flesh and Bone as Roy Sweeney
- The Program as Sam Winters
- Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle
1992
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Sonny Corleone
- Honeymoon in Vegas as Tommy Korman
- Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live! as Self (uncredited)
1991
- For the Boys as Eddie Sparks
- The Dark Backward as Dr. Scurvy
1990
- Misery as Paul Sheldon
- Dick Tracy as Spaldoni
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Self / Sonny Corleone / Michael Corleone
1989
- The Simpsons as James Caan (voice)
1988
- Alien Nation as Matthew Sykes
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation ... (Writer)
- Biography as Self
- Gardens of Stone as Sgt. Clell Hazard
1982
- Kiss Me Goodbye as Jolly
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1980
- Hide in Plain Sight as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
1979
- 1941 as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
- Chapter Two as George Schneider
- Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party as Self (uncredited)
- Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration as Self
1978
- Comes a Horseman as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
1977
- Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
- A Bridge Too Far as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
- Superstunt as Self
- Another Man, Another Chance as David Williams
- Playboy's Playmate Party
1976
- Silent Movie as Self
- Harry and Walter Go to New York as Harry Digby
1975
- Rollerball as Jonathan E.
- Funny Lady as Billy Rose
- The Killer Elite as Mike Locken
- Gone with the West as Jud McGraw
- Rickles
- Funny Girl to Funny Lady as Self
- From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle
1974
- The Godfather Part II as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
- The Gambler as Axel
- Freebie and the Bean as Freebie
1973
- Slither as Dick Kanipsia
- Cinderella Liberty as John Baggs Jr.
1972
- The Godfather as Sonny Corleone
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Brian's Song as Brian Piccolo
- T.R. Baskin as Larry Moore
- The Godfather: Behind the Scenes as Self
1970
- Rabbit, Run as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom
1969
- The Rain People as Jimmy Kilgannon
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- Journey to Shiloh as Buck Burnett
- Submarine X-1 as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR
- Filmmaker as Self (uncredited)
1966
- El Dorado as Mississippi
1965
- Get Smart as Rupert of Rathskeller (uncredited)
- The F.B.I. as Eugene David Holt
- The Glory Guys as Pvt. Anthony Dugan
- Red Line 7000 as Mike
1964
- Lady in a Cage as Randall Simpson O'Connell
1963
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Rick Peterson
- Irma la Douce as Soldier with Radio (uncredited)
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Jay Shaw / Phil Beldone
- Combat! as Sgt. Beckman
- The Wide Country as Buddie Simpson
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Guest
- Ben Casey
- Dr. Kildare as Charley Johnson
1960
1959
- The Untouchables as Keir Brannon
1958
- Naked City as Marty Feketi
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee