ACTOR

James Caan

1940 - 2022

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James Edmund Caan ( KAHN; March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972) – a performance that earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised his role in The Godfather Part II (1974). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Caan has received more than 18,057,951 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia. James Caan is the 413th most popular actor (down from 305th in 2019), the 747th most popular biography from United States (down from 549th in 2019) and the 208th most popular American Actor.

James Caan is most famous for playing Sonny Corleone in the 1972 film, The Godfather.

Memorability Metrics

  • 18M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Caan ranks 413 out of 13,578. Before him are Walter Matthau, Alan Arkin, Gerard Butler, Ron Perlman, Robert Mitchum, and Burt Reynolds. After him are Magda Schneider, Albert Finney, Ali MacGraw, Richard Dean Anderson, Randy Quaid, and William Shatner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, James Caan ranks 54. Before him are Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Patrick Stewart, Nancy Pelosi, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Mario Andretti, and Eduardo Galeano. After him are Tarō Asō, Shahnaz Pahlavi, Nancy Sinatra, Cliff Richard, Óscar Arias, and Jan Jongbloed. Among people deceased in 2022, James Caan ranks 37. Before him are Peter Brook, Wolfgang Petersen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Bruno Latour, Mylène Demongeot, and Ray Liotta. After him are Bill Russell, William Hurt, Angelo Sodano, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Ayaz Mutallibov, and Kakuichi Mimura.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Caan ranks 747 out of 20,380. Before him are Josephine Cochrane (1839), Ron Perlman (1950), John Carpenter (1948), Alan Shepard (1923), Robert Mitchum (1917), and Burt Reynolds (1936). After him are Robert Altman (1925), Ali MacGraw (1939), David Fincher (1962), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), Richard Dean Anderson (1950), and Paul Morphy (1837).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, James Caan ranks 208. Before him are Christopher Lambert (1957), Walter Matthau (1920), Alan Arkin (1934), Ron Perlman (1950), Robert Mitchum (1917), and Burt Reynolds (1936). After him are Ali MacGraw (1939), Richard Dean Anderson (1950), Randy Quaid (1950), James Woods (1947), Roy Scheider (1932), and Jean Harlow (1911).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Godfather
Sonny Corleone
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Mar 14o 19728.692 / 10
Misery
Paul Sheldon
After stalking and saving the life of her favorite fiction author in a car accident, his manic obsessor holds him captive in her remote Colorado home then forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
Nov 30o 19907.762 / 10
Elf
Walter
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
Oct 9o 20036.65 / 10