
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.
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as Col. Tom Rockwell
as Harry
as Agent Gamble

as Roger Flynn
as Grandpa

as Senator George Lawrence Secord
as Harold Grainey
as Tap
as Gerry Ryan
as Jalapeño · 1 episode
as Tim Lockwood (voice)
as Jerry Haggerty
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist
as The President
as Salvatore Palmeri
as Darren Mason

as Frank Vitale
as Kieran Johnson
as James Caan (voice) · 1 episode
as Philip Marlowe
as Frank Colton
as DeGuerin
as Jim
as James Caan (voice) · 1 episode
as Matthew Sykes
as Sgt. Clell Hazard
as Jolly
as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
as Frank
as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.
as George Schneider
as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone · 4 episodes
as David Williams
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun
as James Caan
as Harry Digby
as Jimmy Kilgannon
as Buck Burnett
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR
as Paul Montgomery
as Lee Stegler
as Mississippi
as Mike
as Eugene David Holt · 1 episode
as Keir Brannon · 1 episode
as Marty Feketi · 1 episode
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