James Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in the Bronx, New York City. He is the son of Sophie and Arthur Caan, Jewish immigrants from Germany. Caan’s first film role was as a punk hoodlum who gets his eyes poked out in the 1964 thriller Lady in a Cage. In 1965, Caan landed his first starring role, in Howard Hawks’ auto-racing drama Red Line 7000. His career turnabout came in 1969, with Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People.
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James Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in the Bronx, New York City. He is the son of Sophie and Arthur Caan, Jewish immigrants from Germany. Caan’s first film role was as a punk hoodlum who gets his eyes poked out in the 1964 thriller Lady in a Cage. In 1965, Caan landed his first starring role, in Howard Hawks’ auto-racing drama Red Line 7000. His career turnabout came in 1969, with Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978 with a motion pictures star located at 6648 Hollywood Boulevard. He had a guest role in The F. B. I., The Doctors and the Nurses,Wide Country, Death Valley Days and Combat! as a clever German sergeant and Dr. Kildare. He also prominently lent his voice to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs 2. He won praise for his role as a brain-damaged football player in The Rain people, directed by Coppolas. In 1975, he made a Western called West Gone Gone with the West, based on a John Updike novel. He then had the lead in a Western, Journey to Shiloh. He returned to television with a guest appearance on Get Smart as a Don, playing Rupert Rathske with an uncredited spot on the spy sitcom Get Smart. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He has a son and a daughter, both of whom have appeared in films and TV shows with Caan and his wife, Victoria Justice, as well as a daughter with actor Matthew Broderick, who has appeared in numerous films and television shows.
He currently lives in New York with his husband and two daughters, who live in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. He and his family have three children, all of whom are active members of the New York Jewish community. His son, James Caan Jr., is an actor-director-producer-director who has worked on several films, including The Godfather and The Rainpeople. He appeared in the television series Las Vegas, starring as Big Ed Deline in the episode “Big Ed” Caan has also appeared in a number of television shows, including Naked City, The Untouchables, and The Biggest Loser. His daughter, Victoria, is an actress who has starred in several films and several TV shows, most recently in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Game – Part 2. Caaan has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role of Sonny Corleone in TheGodfather. He received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in El Dorado, for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe and the corresponding Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. He went on to star in Thief, Misery, Eraser, Bottle Rocket, and Elf.
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