He will always retain a bit of the image of the shadowy Hollywood brawler.
Athletic, virile, silent, James Caan died at the age of 82 in Los Angeles.
For moviegoers, there will always be Santino known as “Sonny” Corleone, the eldest son of Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) in
The Godfather
by Francis Ford Coppola, released in 1972.
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In 1975, filmed by Norman Jewison, he was also a magnificent futuristic gladiator in
Rollerball
.
But the role that made him most popular remains that of Paul Sheldon, the writer kidnapped by the diabolical Kathy Bates in
Rob Reiner's
Misery (1990).
Actor in an innovative cinema
An emblematic figure of New Hollywood, James Caan will have been part of the generation of emerging actors, from Jack Nicholson to Robert de Niro, via Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, or Harvey Keitel... He participates of this innovative cinema which offered America works at risk, of very high quality, a cinema that broke the ban based more on the characters than on the plot...
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