James Caan
Gender: Male
Born: 26th March 1940 (currently 72 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Las Vegas, Ben Casey, Les Uns et les Autres, The Wide Country, Death Valley Days, Alcoa Premiere, Dr. Kildare, Wagon Train, The F.B.I., Kraft Suspense Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Les Uns et les Autres, The Untouchables, Annoying Orange, Combat!, The Godfather Saga, Naked City, Crossing Jordan, Death Valley Days, Channing, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Get Smart, Route 66
Movies: A Bridge Too Far, Alien Nation, Bulletproof, City of Ghosts, El Dorado, Elf, Eraser, Flesh and Bone, Freebie and The Bean, Honeymoon in Vegas, Mickey Blue Eyes, The Gambler, The Program, The Way of the Gun, Thief, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Lathe of Heaven, Brian's Song, Games, Comes a Horseman, Cinderella Liberty, The Rain People, For the Boys, Gardens of Stone, The Killer Elite, Rollerball, Funny Lady, This Thing of Ours, The Yards, Bottle Rocket, Slither, Santa's Slay, Get Smart, Wisegal, The Dark Backward, Blood Crime, Harry and Walter Go to New York, Lady in a Cage, A Boy Called Hate, A Glimpse of Hell, Misery, This Is My Father, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, The Glory Guys, T.R. Baskin, Un Autre homme,Une Autre chance, Silent Movie, New York, I Love You, Jericho Mansions, Rabbit, Run, Countdown, Red Line 7000, Kiss Me Goodbye, Mercy, Chapter Two, Middle Men, The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie, A Night at the Golden Eagle, Submarine X-1, North Star, In the Shadows, Dick Tracy, Luckytown, Henry's Crime, Poodle Springs, Journey to Shiloh, Detachment, That's My Boy, For the Love of Money, Gone with the West, Les Uns et les Autres, Viva Las Nowhere, Dogville, Warden of Red Rock, Small Apartments, Les Uns et les Autres, Lathe of Heaven, Hide In Plain Sight, Minkow, Irma la Douce, Anyone's Son, Sweetwater, Redemption, 1941, AFI's 100 Years, 100 Stars, For the Love of Money
James E. Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring roles in The Godfather, Thief, Misery, A Bridge Too Far, Brian's Song, Rollerball, Kiss Me Goodbye, Elf, and El Dorado. He also starred as "Big Ed" Deline in the television series Las Vegas.
Caan was born in The Bronx, New York City, the son of Sophie (née Falkenstein) and Arthur Caan, Jewish immigrants from Germany. His father was a meat dealer and butcher. Caan had a sister, Barbara, and has a brother, Ronald. He grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, New York City. He was educated at P.S. 150 40-01 43rd Avenue School in Queens, at the private Rhodes Preparatory School, also in New York City, and then attended Michigan State University. He later transferred to Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, but did not graduate. While studying at Hofstra University, however, he became intrigued by acting and was interviewed for, accepted to, and graduated from, New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. There, one of his instructors was Sanford Meisner.
Caan began his acting career in television on such series as The Untouchables, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Kraft Suspense Theatre,
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