The star James Caan died on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, at the age of 82 years. The actor’s official Twitter account announced the sad news this Thursday, July 7, using the actor’s usual conclusion:
“It is with great sadness that we inform you of Jimmy’s passing on the evening of July 6”.
The family is moved by the messages of love and sincere condolences and asks you to continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time.
The actor James Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in New York. He began his career in the early 60s in soap operas such as Naked City, The Untouchables and The Young Doctor Kildare. In the cinema, he found his first role in Irma la Douce, under the direction of Billy Wilder. Thereafter, he turns to some of the greatest American filmmakers.
The legend is revealed to the public by giving the line to John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in the western El Dorado of Howard Hawks, released in 1966. The consecration comes in 1972 with The Godfather, in which he lends his features to Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of Vito who knows a gruesome death at a tollbooth.
The rest of his career brings different roles, James Caan becomes a professor of literature addicted to gambling in The Gambler by Karel Reisz, an athlete playing an ultra-dangerous sport in Roller ball by Norman Jewison, a bodyguard accustomed to dirty work in The Killer Elite by Sam Peckinpah or even himself in The Last Madness by Mel Brooks.
Director Michael Mann gave him another great role in The Loner, where he played an ultra-methodical thief who gets a chance for a bright future after meeting Tuesday Weld. After playing a cop collaborating with an alien in the Immediate Future, Los Angeles 1991, he plays the writer Paul Sheldon sequestered and tortured by his biggest fan, the fearsome Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), in Misery. In addition, he turns twice under the direction of Claude Lelouch, in 1977 in Another Man, Another Chance and in 1981 in Them and the Others.
The actor also gives the line to Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Eraser, gives trouble to Mark Wahlberg in The Yards and Benicio Del Toro in Way of the Gun. The actor also carries the series Las Vegas. At the end of his career, he collaborates with Guillaume Canet for Blood Ties and Amanda Sthers for Holy Lands.
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