{"id":1543312,"date":"2022-07-07T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543312"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:05:14","slug":"oscar-nominated-godfather-actor-james-caan-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oscar-nominated-godfather-actor-james-caan-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-nominated \u2018Godfather\u2019 actor James Caan dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foscar-nominated-godfather-actor-james-caan-dies-at-82%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Lisa Richwine<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -American actor James Caan, who starred as gangster Sonny Corleone in epic mafia film \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d has died at age 82, his family said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, posted on Caan\u2019s official Twitter account, said the actor died Wednesday evening. No cause of death or location were provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family appreciates the outpouring of love and heartfelt condolences and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Caan was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of the hot-tempered Corleone in 1972\u2019s \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d He reprised the role in flashback scenes in \u201cThe Godfather: Part II\u201d in 1974. Other nominations included four Golden Globes and an Emmy. <\/p>\n<p>Al Pacino, who played Sonny Corleone\u2019s brother Michael in \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d praised Caan as \u201ca great actor, a brilliant director and my dear friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe that he won\u2019t be in the world anymore because he was so alive and daring,\u201d Pacino said in a statement.   <\/p>\n<p>Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Caan in \u201cThe Godfather\u201d and 1969 movie \u201cThe Rain People,\u201d said Caan\u2019s films \u201cand the many great roles he played will never be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caan\u2019s career spanned six decades and included a broad range of other roles in movies from psychological thriller \u201cMisery\u201d to comedy \u201cElf.\u201d Last year, he starred in romantic comedy \u201cQueen Bees\u201d opposite Ellen Burstyn.   <\/p>\n<p>James Edmund Caan was born in the Bronx borough of New York City on March 26, 1940 to German Jewish immigrants. One of three siblings, Caan began acting on television in 1961. He gained widespread acclaim for his role in the 1971 TV movie \u201cBrian\u2019s Song,\u201d in which he played real-life Chicago Bears football player Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer at age 26. The role earned Caan an Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Dee Williams, who starred with Caan in \u201cBrian\u2019s Song,\u201d shared an undated photo of the two together in recent years on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam Mates and friends till the end. RIP Jimmy,\u201d Williams tweeted with a broken heart emoji.  <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Lisa Richwine;Additional reporting by Tyler Clifford;Editing by Diane Craft and Marguerita Choy)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/oscar-nominated-godfather-actor-james\/file-photo-james-caan-arrives-at-the-41st-annual-chaplin\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660Z3-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660Z3-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/oscar-nominated-godfather-actor-james\/file-photo-actor-james-caan-attends-a-news-conference-to\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660YZ-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660YZ-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/oscar-nominated-godfather-actor-james\/file-photo-a-50th-anniversary-screening-for-the-godfather-in\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660Z0-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660Z0-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/oscar-nominated-godfather-actor-james\/file-photo-u-s-actor-james-caan-holds-his-career-tribute\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660Z2-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660Z2-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -American actor James Caan, who starred as gangster Sonny Corleone in epic mafia film \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d has died at age 82, his family said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}