James Caan
Born: 1940-03-26 in The Bronx, New York City, 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
- JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift as Tap
- The Holiday Movies That Made Us as Self
2019
- It Takes a Lunatic as Self
- Out of Blue as Col. Tom Rockwell
- Holy Lands as Harry
2018
- Con Man as Agent Gamble
2017
- Good Enough as Roger Flynn
- Undercover Grandpa as Grandpa
- The Red Maple Leaf as Senator George Lawrence Secord
2016
- The Good Neighbor as Harold Grainey
- The American West as Self
- J.L. Family Ranch as Tap
2015
- The Outsider as Schuuster
- The Throwaways as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
- Wuthering High as Earnshaw
- Sicilian Vampire as Professor Bernard Issaacs
2014
- Preggoland as Walter
- A Fighting Man as Mike 'Brother' Albright
- Altman as Self
- 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
- Seduced and Abandoned as Self
- Back in the Game as Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr.
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
- His Way as Self
- Detachment as Mr. Charles Seaboldt
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
- Mercy as Gerry Ryan
- Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side as Self (voice)
2008
- Hollywood Gangster as Self
- New York, I Love You as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
- Wisegal as Salvatore Palmeri
- Get Smart as The President
- The Making of 'Bottle Rocket' as Self
2007
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- Brando as Self
2006
- The Phillie Phanatic Goes Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
- The Godfather and the Mob as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Santa's Slay as Darren Mason
- Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2004
- Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie as Mr. Harry Dewitt
2003
- Elf as Walter
- Las Vegas as Ed Deline
- Dogville as The Big Man
- Jericho Mansions as Leonard Grey
- Misery Loves Company as Self
2002
- Blood Crime as Sheriff Morgan McKenna
- City of Ghosts as Marvin
- 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
- Dead Simple as Roy Baker
- In the Shadows as Lance Huston
- A Glimpse of Hell as Capt. Fred Moosally
- Warden of Red Rock as John Flinders
- Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
2000
- The Yards as Frank Olchin
- Luckytown as Charlie Doyles
- The Way of the Gun as Joe Sarno
1999
- Family Guy as James Caan (voice)
- This Is My Father as Kieran Johnson
- Mickey Blue Eyes as Frank Vitale
- The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes' as Self
1998
- Poodle Springs as Philip Marlowe
1997
- Howard Hawks: American Artist as Self
1996
- North Star as Sean McLennon
- Eraser as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin
- Bulletproof as Frank Colton
- Bottle Rocket as Mr. Abe Henry
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- A Boy Called Hate as Jim
1995
- NewsRadio as James Caan (uncredited)
1994
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- The Program as Sam Winters
- Flesh and Bone as Roy Sweeney
- Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle
1992
- Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- Honeymoon in Vegas as Tommy Korman
- The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live! as Self (uncredited)
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Sonny Corleone
1991
- The Dark Backward as Dr. Scurvy
- For the Boys as Eddie Sparks
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 Det. Sgt. 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
1981
- Bolero as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
- The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
- Thief as Frank
1980
- Hide in Plain Sight as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
1979
- Chapter Two as George Schneider
- 1941 as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
- 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
- A Bridge Too Far as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
- Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
- Another Man, Another Chance as David Williams
1976
- Silent Movie as Self
- Harry and Walter Go to New York as Harry Digby
1975
- Rollerball as Jonathan E.
- Rickles
- Funny Lady as Billy Rose
- The Killer Elite as Mike Locken
- Gone with the West as Jud McGraw
- From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle
- Funny Girl to Funny Lady as Self
1974
- The Godfather Part II as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
- The Gambler as Axel
- Freebie and the Bean as Freebie
1973
- Cinderella Liberty as John Baggs Jr.
- Slither as Dick Kanipsia
1972
- The Godfather as Sonny Corleone
1971
- T.R. Baskin as Larry Moore
- Brian's Song as Brian Piccolo
- 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
- Red Line 7000 as Mike
- The Glory Guys as Pvt. Anthony Dugan
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
- Dr. Kildare as Charley Johnson
- Ben Casey
1960
1959
- The Untouchables as Keir Brannon
1958
- Naked City as Marty Feketi
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee