Actor
· Acting
James Caan
Born 1940-03-26
Died 2022-07-06
📍 The Bronx, New York, USA
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 161
Chuck Zito: An American Story
as Self
2024
Fast Charlie
as Stan Mullen
2023
King on Screen
as Self
2023
Secrets of Playboy
as Self
2022
Queen Bees
as Dan
2021
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
as Self
2020
JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift
as Tap
2020
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
2019
Out of Blue
as Col. Tom Rockwell
2019
Holy Lands
as Harry
2019
Con Man
as Agent Gamble
2018
Good Enough
as Roger Flynn
2017
Undercover Grandpa
as Grandpa
2017
The Red Maple Leaf
as Senator George Lawrence Secord
2017
The Good Neighbor
as Harold Grainey
2016
J.L. Family Ranch
as Tap
2016
The American West
as Self
2016
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
2016
Sicilian Vampire
as Professor Bernard Issaacs
2015
The Outsider
as Schuuster
2015
Wuthering High
as Earnshaw
2015
The Throwaways
as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden
2015
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2014
Preggoland
as Walter
2014
Altman
as Self
2014
A Fighting Man
as Mike 'Brother' Albright
2014
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
2013
Back in the Game
as Terry 'The Cannon' Gannon, Sr.
2013
Blood Ties
as Leon
2013
Seduced and Abandoned
as Self
2013
The Godfather Legacy
as Self
2012
That's My Boy
as Father McNally
2012
For the Love of Money
as Micky
2012
Small Apartments
as Mr. Allspice
2012
Detachment
as Mr. Charles Seaboldt
2011
His Way
as Self
2011
Hawaii Five-0
as Tony Archer
2010
Henry's Crime
as Max Saltzman
2010
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
as Self (voice)
2009
Mercy
as Gerry Ryan
2009
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
2009
Middle Men
as Jerry Haggerty
2009
The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
as Self
2008
New York, I Love You
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
2008
Get Smart
as The President
2008
Wisegal
as Salvatore Palmeri
2008
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
2007
Brando
as Self
2007
The Phillie Phanatic Goes Hollywood
as Self (uncredited)
2006
The Godfather and the Mob
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2005
Santa's Slay
as Darren Mason
2005
Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels
2004
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
as Mr. Harry Dewitt
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
as Self
2004
Elf
as Walter
2003
Las Vegas
as Ed Deline
2003
Dogville
as The Big Man
2003
Jericho Mansions
as Leonard Grey
2003
Misery Loves Company
as Self
2003
Blood Crime
as Sheriff Morgan McKenna
2002
City of Ghosts
as Marvin
2002
Lathe of Heaven
as Dr. William Haber
2002
Night at the Golden Eagle
as Prison Warden
2002
This Thing of Ours
as Jimmy
2002
Crossing Jordan
as Ed Deline
2001
Dead Simple
as Roy Baker
2001
In the Shadows
as Lance Huston
2001
Warden of Red Rock
as John Flinders
2001
A Glimpse of Hell
as Capt. Fred Moosally
2001
The Way of the Gun
as Joe Sarno
2000
Luckytown
as Charlie Doyles
2000
The Yards
as Frank Olchin
2000
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999
Mickey Blue Eyes
as Frank Vitale
1999
This Is My Father
as Kieran Johnson
1999
Family Guy
as James Caan (voice)
1999
Poodle Springs
as Philip Marlowe
1998
Bulletproof
as Frank Colton
1996
Eraser
as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
A Boy Called Hate
as Jim
1996
Bottle Rocket
as Mr. Abe Henry
1996
North Star
as Sean McLennon
1996
NewsRadio
as James Caan (uncredited)
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
Flesh and Bone
as Roy Sweeney
1993
The Program
as Sam Winters
1993
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Sonny Corleone
1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
Honeymoon in Vegas
as Tommy Korman
1992
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
as Self (uncredited)
1992
For the Boys
as Eddie Sparks
1991
The Dark Backward
as Dr. Scurvy
1991
Misery
as Paul Sheldon
1990
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
as Self / Sonny Corleone / Michael Corleone
1990
Dick Tracy
as Spaldoni
1990
The Simpsons
as James Caan (voice)
1989
Alien Nation
as Matthew Sykes
1988
Gardens of Stone
as Sgt. Clell Hazard
1987
Biography
as Self
1987
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
1985
Kiss Me Goodbye
as Jolly
1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
Bolero
as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
1981
Thief
as Frank
1981
Hide in Plain Sight
as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
1980
Chapter Two
as George Schneider
1979
1941
as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
1979
Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
as Self (uncredited)
1979
Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
1979
Comes a Horseman
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
1978
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone
1977
Another Man, Another Chance
as David Williams
1977
Playboy's Playmate Party
1977
A Bridge Too Far
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
1977
Silent Movie
as Self
1976
Harry and Walter Go to New York
as Harry Digby
1976
The Killer Elite
as Mike Locken
1975
Rickles
1975
Gone with the West
as Jud McGraw
1975
Rollerball
as Jonathan E.
1975
Funny Lady
as Billy Rose
1975
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
as Self
1975
Freebie and the Bean
as Freebie
1974
The Godfather Part II
as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)
1974
The Gambler
as Axel
1974
Cinderella Liberty
as John Baggs Jr.
1973
Slither
as Dick Kanipsia
1973
The Godfather
as Sonny Corleone
1972
Brian's Song
as Brian Piccolo
1971
T.R. Baskin
as Larry Moore
1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
as Self
1971
Rabbit, Run
as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom
1970
The Rain People
as Jimmy Kilgannon
1969
Filmmaker
as Self (uncredited)
1968
Journey to Shiloh
as Buck Burnett
1968
Submarine X-1
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR
1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
Games
as Paul Montgomery
1967
Countdown
as Lee Stegler
1967
El Dorado
as Mississippi
1966
Red Line 7000
as Mike
1965
The F.B.I.
as Eugene David Holt
1965
Get Smart
as Rupert of Rathskeller (uncredited)
1965
The Glory Guys
as Pvt. Anthony Dugan
1965
Lady in a Cage
as Randall Simpson O'Connell
1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Rick Peterson
1963
Irma la Douce
as Soldier with Radio (uncredited)
1963
Combat!
as Sgt. Beckman
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Wide Country
as Buddie Simpson
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Jay Shaw / Phil Beldone
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Guest
1961
Ben Casey
1961
Dr. Kildare
as Charley Johnson
1961
Route 66
1960
The Untouchables
as Keir Brannon
1959
Naked City
as Marty Feketi
1958
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944