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Jul 7, 2022 · James Caan, who died Thursday at age 82, always screamed New York. ... In 1988, film critic Roger Ebert talked to James Caan about the actor making a comeback after a brief absence from Hollywood ...
Jul 7, 2022 · Around this same time, Caan was trying to make a comeback, and he took on the role. In the years since the film's release, many have admitted that the production did not run smoothly.
- The Godfather (1972) The making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Mob movie epic has become almost as much of a Hollywood legend as the film itself. And part of that legend is that Caan auditioned to play Michael Corleone, and that the studio wanted him to play the role (this was around the time Brian’s Song was an enormous hit).
- The Gambler (1974) Caan seemed an odd choice to play the existentialist antihero of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, about a gambling fanatic spiraling out of control.
- Rollerball (1975) In the year 2018, society is kept pacified by a violent sport known as “rollerball,” which involves roller skates, motorcycles, metal balls and grievous bodily harm.
- Thief (1981) Caan hung out with Chicago cops andtrained with real safecrackers to play the title character in Michael Mann’s brilliant character study of a career criminal trying to go straight — he was a big fan of the director’s earlier movie The Jericho Mileand wanted to soak as much of this world’s atmosphere as he could, in order to do right by him.
- The Godfather Part II. James Caan's greatest cameo is the one he's likely most known for: His one-scene return as Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather Part II."
- Dogville. The first of a planned trilogy of films about American history, Lars von Trier's 2003 provocation "Dogville" tells a story about the eponymous Depression-era town and a lost woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman).
- The Simpsons. Eight years after playing himself as an affable everyman on "NewsRadio," James Caan got to embrace being a hard-partying tough guy on a 2004 episode of "The Simpsons."
- NewsRadio. Considering that any stranger might insist on an autograph, unfurl their life story, or throw up on them, it's no wonder many stars keep the public at arm's length.
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Jul 8, 2022 · James Caan’s comeback became entrenched with his role in Rob Reiner’s Misery (1990), in which he spends most of the movie bedridden and kept captive by his ‘No 1 fan’, played by Kathy ...
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J ames Caan is showing off his war wounds. “I’ve got 14 screws in my left shoulder, six in my right, and three in my elbow,” he boasts. “One in my wrist, two in the other wrist, and one in ...
James Edmund Caan ( / kɑːn / KAHN; March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972) – a performance that earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised his role in The Godfather Part II (1974).
