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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. He reprised the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) with a cameo appearance at the end. Caan had significant roles in films such as Brian's Song (1971), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Gambler (1974), Rollerball (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Alan J. Pakula's Comes a Horseman (1978). He had sporadically worked in film since the 1980s, with his notable performances including roles in Thief (1981), Gardens of Stone (1987), Misery (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Bottle Rocket (1996), The Yards (2000), Dogville (2003), and Elf (2003).
James Caan
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for Harvey Byrne in Bad Mother F$%^er (1999)
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(Some characters may have a description when you click into them) Five years after the blood-soaked events of Pulp Fiction, Jules Winnfield has traded his pistol for a Bible, wandering America as a self-proclaimed servant of God. Now calling himself Reverend Jules, he drifts from dusty backroads to rundown towns, preaching redemption to the broken and lost while searching for the peace he’s convinced the Lord promised him. But redemption doesn’t come easy for a man with that much blood on his hands. When his past life resurfaces in the form of vengeful gangsters, corrupt lawmen, and an old associate who refuses to stay buried, Jules finds himself torn between the preacher he’s trying to be and the killer he used to be. As violence shadows his every step, Jules faces a brutal test of faith—forced to confront not just his enemies, but his own capacity for wrath. The road to salvation turns crimson when Jules picks up the gun he swore he’d never touch again, realizing that forgiveness sometimes comes only after fire and fury. In a world where sin is currency and morality bends to survival, Bad Mother F$%^er (an R-rated spiritual neo-noir) explores whether a man like Jules Winnfield can ever truly walk the earth without leaving bodies behind.
