James Caan 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.
Howard Hawks’ Red Line 7000 was Caan’s first big role in 1965. It didn’t work out financially. In El Dorado, Hawks loved Caan’s performance as Alan Bourdillion Traherne, a.k.a. Mississippi, and put him alongside John Wayne and Robert Mitchum as the title character.
He subsequently appeared in Robert Altman’s second feature picture Countdown (1968) and Curtis Harrington’s thriller Games (1969). (1968). While in the UK, Caan appeared in Submarine X-1 (1968) before starring in Journey to Shiloh (1969). (1968).
He returned to television as a guest star on The F.B.I. before playing Rupert of Rathskeller in the episode “To Sire with Love” of the spy comedy Get Smart as a favor to actor Don Adams.
Caan’s performance as a brain-damaged football player in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People (1969) earned him critical acclaim. Gone with the West, a Western he directed, was released in 1975, a decade after he finished it.
James Caan Godfather Quotes
Sonny Corleone Means What He Says
Sonny wasn’t a feared gangster for no reason, and anybody who did him wrong would be in for a world of pain, no one more so than Carlo, who had been abusive toward Sonny’s sister. Since Sonny had been the one to introduce Carlo to his sister and got her stuck with the latter as her husband, Sonny brought extra venom to his attack.
