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Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). His portrayal of Michael Corleone is regarded as one of the greatest in film history. Pacino received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979), ultimately winning it for playing a blind military veteran in Scent of a Woman (1992). For his performances in The Godfather, Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019), he earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations. Other notable portrayals include Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way (1993), Benjamin Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997), and Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999). He has also starred in the thrillers Heat (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Insomnia (2002), and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). On television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each. Pacino currently stars in the Amazon Video web television series Hunters (2020–present). He has also had an extensive career on stage. He is a two-time Tony Award winner, in 1969 and 1977, for his performances in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Pacino made his filmmaking debut with Looking for Richard (1996), directing and starring in this documentary about Richard III; Pacino had played the lead role on stage in 1977. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Pacino directed and starred in Chinese Coffee (2000), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al Pacino
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for Police Cob Kris Nicklaus in To Live Or Not To Live, That's The Question
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Dec 20th. World is in chaos. its announced that everyone have to go into a fallout shelter. Joe is at home and he has shelter in cellar, but he doesnt want to go, just want to stay here and leave this world. His wife, Jenny, seemingly alive and well comes to him from kitchen, he look like he cant believe it, she asks what is he doing here and he needs to go to the shelter, urging him to join her in the shelter. He says No I dont want to live anymore in this world. As they engage in heartfelt conversation, the audience slowly realizes that Joe's wife is a product of his imagination a manifestation of his longing for the past, she is not alive anymore. Together, they reminisce about their life. At the end after heartbreaking and heartwarming time, she convices him to go to the shelter. But someone knocking in doors and he opens. There is a woman, Michelle, with her son Mark and asks him if he has own shelter and if they could spend the time there, they haven't their own and public is full. Said yes and they spending it together and getting closer, navigates the emotional rollercoaster, prays for surviving, he fell in love again, share stories, fears and dreams, and she falling too. After few days when all ends, they leave shelter and realize lot of homes are destroyed, her too. He loves her and he tell her to stay in his. In a poignant moment, Joe sees his dead wife smiling, waving, and fading away. With a heart full of memories and newfound love, he embraces the new chapter.
