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  James Caan
Caan's first substantial film role was as a menacing villain in the 1964 thriller Lady In A Cage.
Caan was a devoted family man all his life and said this film was a powerful one about family love and values.
Amiable, down to earth and not afraid to tell it like it is, James Caan is a true gentleman, a tough guy with a heart of gold and a Hollywood survivor in every sense of the word.
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  James Caan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940 in The Bronx, New York).
Caan is a graduate of New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse where one of his instructors was teaching legend Sanford Meisner, Caan began acting in television in such series as The Untouchables, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "Kraft Suspense Theatre", "Combat!", Ben Casey, Dr.
Caan is also featured in the "All's Fair in Oven War" episode of The Simpsons, playing himself in Bart's treehouse grotto.
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Caan's first substantial film role was as a menacing villain in the 1964 thriller Lady In A Cage.
Caan was a devoted family man all his life and said this film was a powerful one about family love and values.
Caan made one of the most delightful films of his career in 1992 with the hit Honeymoon In Vegas.
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 James Caan: The Gambler - Movie
Caan's character (Axel Freed) represents a complex individual who is a study in contadictions.
James Caan radiates a brilliant character study of a degenerate gambler hellbent on self destruction, not only at the tables and back rooms, but in life.
James Caan, in what may well be his best-ever performance, portrays a compulsive gambler with an unusually acute awareness of his own motivations.
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 The Biography Channel - James Caan Biography
Caan decided to pursue a career in acting while attending college and, in 1960, was accepted into the Neighbourhood Playhouse.
Caan then worked in television, where he became a busy character actor.
Caan rose to fame thanks to a poignant performance in the 1970 TV movie, 'Brian's Song'.
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 James Caan Photos - James Caan News - James Caan Information
James Caan was born the son of a New York butcher.
James Caan: I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
James Cann: (after being voted "Italian of the Year" in New York twice, after his role as Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather" in 1972).
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 James Caan
Born in the Bronx and raised in Queens, New York, James Caan knew early on that he did not want to follow in his father's footsteps and work in the family meat business.
Caan won a scholarship to study with Wynn Handman, then went on to get the first four jobs he auditioned for in the theater.
Caan shot to fame thanks to a poignant performance in the 1970 television movie Brian's Song, in which he played the ill-fated Chicago Bears star Brian Piccolo.
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 BBC - Films -article article - James Caan Profile
James Caan has been around for a number of years, during which he has appeared on Broadway, television, and made numerous films - not all successful.
Caan was born in the Bronx in 1939, and decided to pursue acting while at college.
Putting to one side the abysmal "Mickey Blue Eyes", he has appeared in a couple of other critically acclaimed films from young directors: "The Yards", a New York crime drama, and "The Way of the Gun", a contemporary Western.
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 James Caan @ Filmbug
One of the most versatile actors in motion pictures, James Caan is best known for his Academy Award nominated performance as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of football star Brian Piccalo in Brian's Song.
In the film For the Boys, a romantic drama co-starring Bette Midler, Caan garnered similar acclaim, and he was praised for his performance as a brain damaged football star in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People, garnering the Best Actor Award from the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Born in the Bronx and raised in Queens, New York, Caan knew early on that he did not want to follow in his father's footsteps and work in the family meat business.
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 Silent Movie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As its title suggests, the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Hal Roach, Mack Sennett and Buster Keaton.
At first the studio chief rejects the idea because the studio is not very successful, and he doesn't trust Funn's judgement based on his previous drinking problem, but Funn convinces him that if he can get all of Hollywood's biggest stars to be in the film that he could save the studio.
Funn, Eggs, and Bell proceed to recruit Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, and Paul Newman (all played by themselves) to be in their silent film.
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 James Caan - MovieActors.com
Sometimes James Caan is credited as Jimmy Caan, also goes by the nickname Jimmy In his youth, his nicknames were "Shoulders" and "Killer Caan".
James Caan son, Scott Caan, appeared in OCEAN'S ELEVEN and OCEAN'S TWELVE, opposite Rob Reiner's father, Carl Reiner.
Francis Ford Coppola cast James Caan as fiery tempered gangster Santino "Sonny" Corleone in the Mafia epic THE GODFATHER.
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 James Caan files for divorce - Film - www.smh.com.au
US movie star James Caan has filed for divorce from his wife of nine and a half years, Linda, from whom he separated this week.
Caan is requesting joint custody of the couple's two boys, aged six and nine, and that he not be ordered to pay spouse support to Linda Stokes Caan.
Caan is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Santino "Sonny" Corleone in 1972's The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II (1974).
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 CNN.com - James Caan adds punch to 'Las Vegas' - Jan. 6, 2004
The star of the NBC series "Las Vegas" is talking, gesturing and fidgeting in a makeup chair while his face and hair are smoothed and a fake tattoo transfer wiped off his forearm.
Caan also wanted each episode to be rooted in a certain reality.
Caan thought his character, as first written, was stiff and limited.
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 James Caan - Profile, Latest News and Related Articles
Caan is also friends with mafia member Ronald "Ronnie" Lorenzo, for whom Caan put his house up to bail him out of jail.
Caan was regularly seen with Colombo family underboss Carmine "Junior" Persico during the filming of The Godfather.
James Caan had Mafia hitman Anthony "the Animal' Fiato rescue Caan's brother Ronnie Caan from drug dealers who were holding him ransom.
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 HSX Prediction Market: StarBonds® : James Caan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
James Caan began his career in the 1960s, working his way up the theatrical ranks before briefly appearing in a Broadway production of Mandingo.
By the late '70s, however, a series of poor career choices nearly brought Caan's career to a halt, and from 1983 to 1986, the New York-born actor did not appear in any films.
Caan resurfaced a few years later, though, appearing in 1990's Misery and 1992's Honeymoon in Vegas.
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 USATODAY.com - Actor James Caan files for divorce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor James Caan has filed for divorce from his wife of more than nine years.
Caan and his wife, Linda, were married Oct. 7, 1995, according to the divorce petition filed Monday in Superior Court.
The couple have two children — Jacob, 6, and James Jr., 9, the petition said.
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 Salon.com People | The art of the Caan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
That line sums up Caan's character in the film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Phillippe as a murderous, gunslinging twosome who kidnap a surrogate mother pregnant with Chidduck's son and hold her for ransom.
Caan's a gregarious fellow -- quick to laugh and rarely at rest, even in his seat.
Like other actors of his generation, Caan went through a slump in the '80s, his low point being the execrable "Alien Nation," which he has repeatedly slammed in interviews.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - James Caan
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He co-starred with Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicolas Cage and spoofed his "Sonny Corleone"?title=character from The Godfather.
Caan is also featured in the "All's Fair in Oven War"?title=episode of The Simpsons, playing himself in Bart's treehouse grotto.
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 James Caan | movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Caan's comeback performance in Misery will provide company for some of his best movies.
Lady in a Cage (1964) Caan is one of three thugs terrorizing a wheelchair- bound Olivia de Havilland, who is trapped in her mansion's private elevator.
The Gambler (1974) Caan lends authority and poignance to his role as a college professor with an urge to lose.
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 James Caan | Biography (Born 1939)
The 1965 Howard Hawks auto-racing drama Red Line 7000 was his first starring role, followed two years later by the Hawks Western El Dorado, which cast him opposite John Wayne and Robert Mitchum; in 1968, Caan starred in Robert Altman's Countdown, and in 1969, he appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People.
After earning a Golden Globe bid for his work in 1974's The Gambler, Caan briefly appeared in 1974's The Godfather Pt.
He also made any number of ill-considered decisions; he and Coppola were unable to come to terms for Apocalypse Now, and he also rejected roles in hits including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Superman, and Kramer vs. Kramer.
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 James Caan News
Marlon Brando and a star-studded cast, including Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall, give it their all in Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster movie charting the turbulent and often violent...
James Caan once ordered a Mafia-type investigation on fellow actor Joe Pesci after the star refused to pay a hotel bill, according to new reports.
James Caan and Josh Duhamel Raise the Stakes Even Higher on Television's Sharpest and Sexiest Series
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 James Caan Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com
James Caan used the same line in THIEF (1981), also directed by Michael Mann.
BRIAN'S SONG (1971): In real life James Caan (who had been a football player in high school) was a much better athlete than Billy Dee Williams but in the movie Williams' character, Gale, was supposed to surpass Cann's character, Brian, in playing ability.
JAMES Caan is going from THE GODFATHER to the stepfather - with a smile on his face.
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 James Caan Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Laurence Olivier, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell.
Starring James Caan, James Earl Jones, Anjelica Huston, D B Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lonette McKee, Sam Bottoms, Elias Koteas, Laurence Fishburne.
Starring James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson, Abraham Benrubi, Duane Davis, J C Quinn.
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 AbsoluteNow: James Caan photos - Actress CHARLIZE THERON & actor JAMES CAAN at the Cannes Film Festival for the ...
JAMES CAAN & son at the USA premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in Los Angeles.
JAMES CAAN (left) & VIGGO MORTENSEN at the USA premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in Los Angeles.
Actress CHARLIZE THERON & actor JAMES CAAN at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of their new movie The Yards.
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 James Caan Pictures, Biography, Filmography, News, Trailers,
Born March 26, 1939 - Like so many other prominent actors of the 1970s, the versatile James Caan rose to success on the strength of his riveting performance in The Godfather.
Born March 26, 1939, in the Bronx, NY, Caan decided to pursue a career in acting while attending college and in 1960 was accepted by Sanford Meisner into the Neighborhood Playhouse.
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 James Caan - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
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