

Acting
James Edmund Caan (March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) 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. After early roles in Howard Hawks's El Dorado (1966), Robert Altman's Countdown (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), he came to prominence for playing his signature role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor....
Highest rated appearances
as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)

It Takes a Lunatic
as Self

Out of Blue
as Col. Tom Rockwell

Holy Lands
as Harry

Con Man
as Agent Gamble

Good Enough
as Roger Flynn

Undercover Grandpa
as Grandpa

The Red Maple Leaf
as Senator George Lawrence Secord

The Good Neighbor
as Harold Grainey

J.L. Family Ranch
as Tap

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
as Santino "Sonny" Corleone

Sicilian Vampire
as Professor Bernard Issaacs

The Outsider
as Schuuster

Wuthering High
as Earnshaw

The Throwaways
as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Preggoland
as Walter

Altman
as Self

A Fighting Man
as Mike 'Brother' Albright

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
as Tim Lockwood (voice)

Blood Ties
as Leon

Seduced and Abandoned
as Self

The Godfather Legacy
as Self

That's My Boy
as Father McNally

For the Love of Money
as Micky

Small Apartments
as Mr. Allspice

Detachment
as Mr. Charles Seaboldt

His Way
as Self

Henry's Crime
as Max Saltzman

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
as Self (voice)

Mercy
as Gerry Ryan

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
as Tim Lockwood (voice)

Middle Men
as Jerry Haggerty
Hollywood Gangster
as Self

The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
as Self

New York, I Love You
as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist

Get Smart
as The President

Wisegal
as Salvatore Palmeri

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self

Brando
as Self

The Phillie Phanatic Goes Hollywood
as Self (uncredited)

The Godfather and the Mob
as Self (archive footage)

Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

Santa's Slay
as Darren Mason

Elf: Film School for Kids
as Self

Elf: That's a Wrap
as Self

Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
as Mr. Harry Dewitt

Elf
as Walter

Dogville
as The Big Man

Jericho Mansions
as Leonard Grey

Misery Loves Company
as Self

Blood Crime
as Sheriff Morgan McKenna

City of Ghosts
as Marvin

Lathe of Heaven
as Dr. William Haber

Night at the Golden Eagle
as Prison Warden

This Thing of Ours
as Jimmy

Dead Simple
as Roy Baker

In the Shadows
as Lance Huston

Warden of Red Rock
as John Flinders
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
as Self

A Glimpse of Hell
as Capt. Fred Moosally

The Way of the Gun
as Joe Sarno

Luckytown
as Charlie Doyles

The Yards
as Frank Olchin

Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party

Mickey Blue Eyes
as Frank Vitale
The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'
as Self

This Is My Father
as Kieran Johnson

Playmate Pajama Party
as self
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
as Self

Poodle Springs
as Philip Marlowe
Howard Hawks: American Artist
as Self

Bulletproof
as Frank Colton

Eraser
as DeGuerin

A Boy Called Hate
as Jim

Bottle Rocket
as Mr. Abe Henry

North Star
as Sean McLennon

Flesh and Bone
as Roy Sweeney

The Program
as Sam Winters
Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Sonny Corleone

Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)

Honeymoon in Vegas
as Tommy Korman

The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
as Self (uncredited)

For the Boys
as Eddie Sparks

The Dark Backward
as Dr. Scurvy

Misery
as Paul Sheldon

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
as Self / Sonny Corleone / Michael Corleone

Dick Tracy
as Spaldoni

Chapter Two
as George Schneider

1941
as Sailor in Fight (uncredited)

Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
as Self (uncredited)

Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
as Self

Comes a Horseman
as Frank 'Buck' Athearn
Superstunt
as Self

Another Man, Another Chance
as David Williams

Playboy's Playmate Party

A Bridge Too Far
as SSgt. Eddie Dohun

Silent Movie
as James Caan

Harry and Walter Go to New York
as Harry Digby

The Killer Elite
as Mike Locken

Rickles

Gone with the West
as Jud McGraw

Rollerball
as Jonathan E.

Funny Lady
as Billy Rose

Funny Girl to Funny Lady
as Self
From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle

Freebie and the Bean
as Freebie

The Godfather Part II
as Sonny Corleone (uncredited)

The Gambler
as Axel

Cinderella Liberty
as John Baggs Jr.

Slither
as Dick Kanipsia

The Godfather
as Sonny Corleone

Brian's Song
as Brian Piccolo

T.R. Baskin
as Larry Moore

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
as Self

Rabbit, Run
as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom

The Rain People
as Jimmy Kilgannon

Filmmaker
as Self (uncredited)

Journey to Shiloh
as Buck Burnett

Submarine X-1
as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR

Games
as Paul Montgomery

Countdown
as Lee Stegler

El Dorado
as Mississippi

Red Line 7000
as Mike

The Glory Guys
as Pvt. Anthony Dugan

Lady in a Cage
as Randall Simpson O'Connell

Irma la Douce
as Soldier with Radio (uncredited)