James Caan, intense and sympathetic, gave one of his finest performances in Karel Reisz’s The Gambler , as a university professor addicted to gambling.James Caan, intense and sympathetic, gave one of his finest performances in Karel Reisz’s The Gambler , as a university professor addicted to gambling.There are some film stars for whom the frisson of fame and the exultation of acting are not enough.
, who has died aged 82, sought satisfaction in extreme sports, drugs and a colourful personal life. However, the many superb portrayals he gave in scores of films and TV episodes will outlive the gossip and sensational headlines.. Caan, who was nominated for an Oscar, was perfect as the hedonistic and volatile heir apparent to the Corleone family, whose bloody ways end in his own death.
Soon after The Godfather, Caan was wallowing in violence again as the embittered hero of Rollerball . Although presented as the moral centre of the film, Caan’s character, Jonathan E, is as sadistic as everyone else around him. More violence came his way as the brutal CIA man in’s The Killer Elite and, in contrast, he portrayed Billy Rose, the gambling, philandering husband of Barbra Streisand’s Fanny Brice in Funny Lady, all in the same year.
James Caan, right, with Al Pacino, as brothers Sonny and Michael Corleone in The Godfather . Caan was perfect as the volatile heir apparent to the Corleone family.Caan was well teamed with Geneviève Bujold in Claude Lelouch’s romance set in the US, Another Man, Another Chance , and with in the western Comes a Horseman . The latter title chimed with Caan, who was once dubbed the Jewish cowboy because of his earlier participation in rodeos and his ownership of a stable of horses.wrote of Caan at that stage in his career that “he’s not all of a piece as a performer: he’s never quite himself – you feel he’s concealing himself rather than revealing a character”.
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