Acting
James Caan
- Born
- Mar 26, 1940 · Aged 82
- Died
- Jul 6, 2022
- Place of birth
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 140
- TV credits
- 34
- Directing credits
- 1
Also known as (2)
- 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.…
