Submitted by dnorbek on February 2, 2008

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Tough-guy leading man and sometime supporting player James Caan is best-known for his role as hot-tempered Sonny Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). Caan grew up in Queens, New York and got into acting after a brief flirtation with college football. During the 1960s he appeared in small roles in TV shows and films, while at the same time participating in professional rodeo competitions. By the end of the 1960s he was getting good roles in films such as El Dorado (1966, starring John Wayne) and Coppola's The Rain People (1969, with Robert Duvall). The Godfather earned Caan an Oscar nomination and came on the heels of his Emmy-nominated performance in the homoerotic...

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