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James Caan Wiki Biography

• James Caan was born in The Bronx, New York City, on March 26, 1940, to a family of German Jewish immigrants. 
• In the majority of his films, James Caan portrays infamous macho men such as gangsters and criminals, earning him a place on the list of the best Hollywood actors. 
• For example, movie buffs would remember him as Sonny Corleone from Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic film “The Godfather” (1972), for which James Caan was nominated for an Academy Award. 
• James is reported to have amassed a net worth of $40 million over the course of his long career, having appeared in at least one film every year – with the exception of five in the 1980s following the death of his sister from leukemia – for more than 50 years. 
• James Caan attended Michigan State University and Hofstra University but did not complete his education because he became interested in film and wanted to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse of the Theatre. 
• Later in his career, he starred in films such as ‘The Godfather Part II,’ ‘Funny Lady,’ and ‘Thief,’ all of which added to James Caan’s overall net worth. 
• Other notable performances by James Caan include ‘A Bridge Too Far,’ ‘Honeymoon in Vegas,’ ‘Eraser,’ ‘Bulletproof,’ ‘Mickey Blue Eyes,’ and ‘Dogville.’ 
• James Caan is still alive, and in 2012 he co-starred with his son Scott Caan in the television series Hawaii Five-0. 
• A year later, James Caan starred in the television series “Magic City.” 
• He then starred in the 2014 film “The Outsider,” and will also feature in the 2015 films “Sweetwater” and “Preggoland.” 
• As a result, James Caan’s star has not faded and he remains one of Hollywood’s most sought-after stars. 
• Furthermore, despite the fact that he has worked steadily in the film industry for over 50 years, starring in over 100 films, there is no sign of him slowing down, ensuring that James Caan’s net worth will continue to rise. 
• James Caan has been married four times in his personal life. 
• He married Dee Jay Mathis in 1961, and the couple had a daughter before divorcing in 1966. 
• Route 66 with Ronnie Caan The Saturn Award for Best Actor is given annually to the best actor in the world. 
• Shoulders Singer Scott Caan Sonny Corleone is a mafia tycoon ‘Sweetwater’ by Stephen King (2014) Caan, Tara A. The Bronx is a borough of New York City. 
• The Godfather is a film about a man who is Section 2 of The Godfather The Jewish Cowboy is a fictional character. 
• The Stranger The People of the Rain The Untouchables are a group of people who are untouchable. 
• United States of America Voice Actor from the United States of America 

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James Caan Quotes

• (On turning down Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)) I was first, Dustin [Hoffman] was last on the list of five guys they wanted. The director [Robert Benton] kept it up with me for three months. I said, ‘This is middle-class, bourgeois horseshit.’ I mean, ‘Cut to kid crying.’ Oh, please. Fuck you!
• (On turning down One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)) Four or five different directors came to me with that at different times. I go, ‘It’s not a movie. Who wants to look at four institution walls?’ Milos Forman made it great. Jack was great in it. I made a flat-out, fucking mistake.
• I won’t mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with. The ones that are difficult try to camouflage the fact that they haven’t got shit to offer. So they complain about frilly things that really don’t mean a shit, like their dressing rooms, makeup.
• [on figuring out how to play Sonny Corleone] I didn’t have to work on an accent or anything, but I couldn’t quite get a grasp. I was shaving to go to dinner or something, and for some reason I started thinking of Don Rickles. Because I knew Rickles. Somebody was watching over me and gave me this thing: being Rickles, kind of say-anything, do-anything.
• [His advice to younger actors] The main pearl of wisdom I give these young kids is that you shouldn’t make your career your whole life. No matter what heights you achieve, even if you’re Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. So if you put everything into that one basket – acting – you’ll wind up hurting yourself, either with drugs or any other self-destructive thing you can think of.
• I went through some bad times, some very self-destructive stuff, you know, when I was on top. I’d got involved in partying and doing all that and I lost my sister and, basically, I got all screwed up in my head. She was like my best friend and I lost her to leukemia and I was just a mess. I had a lot of money because I’d worked a lot and saved it. I had it in a pension plan and then I lost all my money. My accountant. I just woke up one morning and I didn’t have a dime. We’re talking about tons . . . I mean, a lot of money, and I was flat broke.
• I did this picture last year with Nicole Kidman and Lars von Trier, Dogville (2003), and it’s supposed to be a trilogy, but now that she’s walked away from it, I’m walking from it. He is very anti-American, so screw him. I’m very pro-America. I’m a conservative, basically.
• [on fans confusing him with his characters] Look, you only pray when you start in this business that you get to the point where people recognize you or quote you. I mean, I’ve got a lot of people who are like, “Hey, your ankle OK?” from Misery (1990). I get that a lot. It’s harmless. Or they’ll say, “Hey, don’t go through that toll booth again” or “Have the right change”. That’s great! First of all, it means that they remember the picture. There’s nothing not to like about it . . . No, I hope they never stop.
• You know those actors who say, “I want to be alone” or they’re walking around with their friggin’ bodyguards? A bodyguard! I’d never have a bodyguard. I mean, who wants to hurt me? But the point is that they have the bodyguard so that they can say, “Leave me alone!” It’s this revolving door thing. If somebody didn’t recognize them, they’d have a heart attack, the bastards.
• A “Godfather Four”? Not by Francis [Francis Ford Coppola], anyway. Who cares? There shouldn’t have been a The Godfather: Part III (1990).
• [on being confused with his character from The Godfather (1972)] I’ll bump into a guy in a bar, and he’ll say, “I’m sorry, Sonny!” It’s surreal.
• There’s a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain’t got it.
• I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, “What about your creative juices?” Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn’t any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn’t have to wait six months for them to put music to it. How good a Little League coach was I? I was a little hyper. One thing I learned was that talent comes from everywhere; it doesn’t have to come just from the ghetto. But in Beverly Hills, because Daddy has a grocery store, the kids lack a lot of try.
• I’ll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I’ll think, “Oh, my God, I can’t believe my good luck”. But then she’ll say, “Where’s your son?” or “My mother loves you.”
• [about living at the Playboy mansion] Actually, it was for medicinal purposes – I was just getting divorced. This doctor wrote me a prescription to live there because he thought it would help me get over the pain of my divorce. My God, it worked. I got over it pretty quickly.
• If it was up to them, I’d be playing Sonny Corleone my entire life. Usually, if there weren’t eight people dead by page 11, they wouldn’t send me the script. People say, “Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies”. I think I’ve done two, out of 60.
• [on actors taking themselves too seriously] The truth is . . . myself, De Niro [Robert De Niro], Pacino [Al Pacino], Hoffman [Dustin Hoffman], we were arrogant, pompous asses.
• [on Zabriskie Point (1970)] It was the worst fucking – and I have to curse because there is no other way that I can express myself – picture that I ever saw. I got so angry about it. I was in love with a girl. We went to the movie and it ended the whole affair. He [Michelangelo Antonioni] hired cardboard, the worst actors, and it was a conscious effort – that’s what pissed me off.
• [on recent big-budget Hollywood films] [They] absolutely stink. All those pictures, those big extravaganzas – you can’t remember any characters. Either they had an animal head on them or walked funny . . . If they want me to work, I’ll go, “Sure”. Basically, I’m a whore.
• I loved Funny Lady (1975) for whatever reason. People say they didn’t know I could sing and dance. Well, nobody ever asks me – it’s always “Punch this guy”.
• Quite often I’m misunderstood when I say, ‘It’s not my life, it’s my job.’ People think that means I don’t give a shit. Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don’t know how anyone can find fault with that. For some reason when you say, ‘It’s my job’ it sounds like ‘Who gives a shit?’ Well, that’s not it at all. What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. I go to the movies, I stand on line minding my own business and the manager goes, ‘Mr. Caan, Mr. Caan.’ And I say, ‘No, no, no, I’m OK. I’ll stand on the line.’ ‘Oh, you can’t.’ So, finally they take you through the line and the other 40 people go, ‘Hey, Mr. Bigshot.’ And I was just minding my own business, I just wanted to stand there. But other people make it very important that I’m an actor.
• I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks and acting was the only thing that held my interest. The reason I started was to stay away from the meat market. That’s where I was headed — to be with the guys who lug beef all day long.
• My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, ‘Give me a break.’
• Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn’t “done” Brando [Marlon Brando] is lying.
• I’d rather get sloshed than stoned.
• I have an agent I trust professionally more than anybody else, but with the best intentions he could put me in the shithouse just as fast as somebody who wanted to ruin me.
• [on being voted “Italian of the Year” in New York twice, after his role as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972)]: I’m a Jew from the Bronx. I feel guilty about accepting these awards, but they wouldn’t let me turn them down.

James Caan Important Facts

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• Two of his memorable scenes from The Godfather (1972) have been parodied on The Simpsons. The scene where Sonny beats up Carlo in the street was turned into a scene where Marge does the same to a man who mugged her. Sonny’s death scene has actually been parodied twice. The first time involved Bart being ambushed with snowballs at school. The second actually involved Caan himself making a guest appearance, and being ambushed at a tollbooth again.
• Although he played Morgana King’s son in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), he is only ten years her junior in real life.
• He was considered for the role of Tom Hagen in The Godfather (1972) before Robert Duvall was cast. He eventually played Sonny Corleone in both that film and The Godfather: Part II (1974).
• Although he played John Cazale’s elder brother in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), he is five years his junior in real life.
• He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974).
• Turned down Jack Nicholson’s role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Not one to repeat that mistake, he accepted the lead role in Misery (1990) when Nicholson turned it down. Both films involved the lead character being at the mercy of a sadistic nurse.
• Republican.
• Frequent guest/player at celebrity golf events.
• Avid golfer.
• Has a daughter, Tara A. Caan (born November 5, 1964), with first wife Dee Jay Mattis.
• His parents, Sophie (Falkenstein) and Arthur Caan, were both German Jews.
• Lives in Beverly Hills, California.
• During the making of Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), he nicknamed Hugh Grant “Whippy” after the Whippet, an English breed of dog that shivers a lot.
• Tested for the role of Ted Henderson in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969).
• Studied Economics in Michigan State University.
• Studied in The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York.
• Studied in Rhodes High School in New York.
• Has a son named Alexander James Caan (b. April 10th 1991) with Ingrid Hajek.
• According to the British documentary The Godfather and the Mob (2006), Caan was regularly seen with Gambino family underboss Carmine Persico (aka “Junior”) during the filming of The Godfather (1972). As Persico was under surveillance by the FBI at the time, Caan came under almost equal scrutiny.
• His film contracts during his rodeo days had written in them that he could not compete in rodeos during filming. This was for fear he would injure or kill himself.
• While on sabbatical from acting he coached a Little League baseball team, there was one incident where his team’s weakest player hit a home run that won a game. This incident is claimed by Caan as one of the greatest moments of his life.
• In his youth, his nicknames were “Shoulders” and “Killer Caan”.
• Grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, New York City.
• In the Godfather trilogy, Andy Garcia plays the son of Caan’s character, Sonny Corleone. In Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and Ocean’s Twelve (2004), Caan’s son, Scott Caan, works with Garcia.
• Appears in Misery (1990), which was directed by Rob Reiner. His son, Scott Caan, appeared in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and Ocean’s Twelve (2004), opposite Reiner’s father, Carl Reiner.
• Two generations of his family and the Coppola family have worked together. He worked with Francis Ford Coppola most memorably in the first two Godfather films (The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974)) and in Gardens of Stone (1987). His son, Scott Caan, appeared in Sonny (2002), which was directed by Nicolas Cage and featured Cage and his brother, Marc Coppola. Sonny was also the name of Caan’s “Godfather” character.
• Was considered by George Lucas for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977).
• After being turned down by Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, Julia Phillips inquired of Caan’s agent if he would be interested in taking the lead role of Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Caan’s agent responded that he would read the script for a guarantee of $1 million plus 10% of the gross if he accepted the role. Phillips went with the original choice, Richard Dreyfuss.
• Sons with Linda Stokes: James Arthur Caan (b. 6 November 1995) and Jacob Nicholas Caan (b. September 24th 1998).
• Was a drama major at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York.
• Is a 6th Dan in Karate.
• Spent 9 years on the pro rodeo circuit.
• Was originally tested for the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972) (director Francis Ford Coppola had worked with him and Robert Duvall in The Rain People (1969) and wanted them in the movie), but then was slated to play Michael Corleone after Paramount’s initial choices (which included Warren Beatty, Robert Redford and Ryan O’Neal) did not pan out. When Al Pacino came on board, Caan was switched back to Sonny.
• Some sources give his birth year as 1939.
• One brother, Ronnie Caan, and one sister, Barbara (deceased c. 1981–leukemia).
• Briefly lived at the Playboy Mansion in the 1970s.
• Turned down plum roles in MASH (1970) & Apocalypse Now (1979).
• Son of Arthur & Sophie Caan. His father was a kosher butcher.
• States that Thief (1981) is one of his favorite films.
• In the 1990s, he kicked a cocaine habit of some 20 years.
• Was offered the role of McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
• Father (with Sheila Ryan) of actor Scott Caan.
• Born at 10:31pm-EST.
• Played football for Michigan State University.

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