James Caan's Life Was More Violent Than The Godfather
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- James Caan has impressed audiences for decades with his stellar performances in cinematic masterpieces. But behind the scenes, he led a life filled with enough material to shock and entertain the world far more than any movie ever could.
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Conceding that I haven’t seen everything Caan has been in, I can’t help but feel like Caan is playing himself in every role he’s in.
He was awesome in Bottle Rocket.
I thought he was great in "Comes a Horseman" with Jane Fonda.
Every role is different, though. Off the top of my head, Thief, The Gambler, The Godfather, he's got very distinctive roles.
He was phenomenal in Kiss Me Goodbye. No matter what movie role he played, you knew you'd get the best performance he could give. He was a true master at his craft and a good man, faults and all.
@@joen8529love that movie. Only role I’ve ever liked Caan in.
When Marlon Brando says you are one of the greatest characters he ever knew and loved you know James is the real deal
I was a stagehand on "Flesh and Bone" and "The Program" and was lucky enough to work with Jimmy twice. He was a REAL dude and a great guy. We shared many a cocktail after work. Always really cool to hang around with him. Loved that guy.
Interesting life you had
I LOVE the movie "The Program" and James Caan was excellent at the Head Coach in it! It was well done and the storyline was intriguing. Excellent that you were able to hang out with Mr. Caan - RIP to him.
"Flesh & Bone" was fantastic; I dunno whether to call it an early '90s Neo Noir like "Red Rock West", or a modern Western like, urr, "Red Rock West", but by any name, "RRW" was the best of the bunch. And, if I recollect correctly, the screen debut of a 19-year old Gwyneth Paltrow.
James Caan always struck me an a tortured soul. He was inspiring, yet tormented. Talented, but self-loathing. His contribution to film was great, but his personal journey was so sad. Caan was a great actor that gave us memorable characters, and this video sees that, regardless of this personal demons.
James Caan was one of my childhood heroes! He was a great actor and he was always a man's man and the embodiment of masculinity!
Films like The Godfather, Roller Ball, and Thief are among my favorites!
I met his son Jimmy Caan at my office a few years ago and he turned out to be a righteous dude!
His son gave his father my first edition copy of The Godfather and The Godfather Family Album to sign for me! He also let me speak to my childhood hero over the phone!
It was a dream come true for a skinny Haitian American kid from Flatbush, Brooklyn!
Mr. Caan was a first-class gentleman and a grateful person when I told him how much I admired his work. He was also humble and patient.
RIP JAMES CAAN. You'll be missed.
Thief is top notch!
@@chrisnash430
I agree! James Caan and Michael Mann killed it!
Love your comment bro 👍
@rafaelramirez1507
Thanks a lot! I will cherish those books that Mr.Caan signed for me and take the memory of my phone conversation with him to the grave.
I'll never forget the day that I found out that he passed away. I was heartbroken to hear that my childhood hero had died.
I was getting ready for my workday and I dropped everything that I was doing and texted his son Jimmy to give him my condolences.
Yeah you're just American😂 hyphenating is dumb
My brother Brian is named that because of the movie Brian's song. He passed away 2 years ago from cancer. 😢❤
I’m deeply sorry. My condolences to you and your family. Brian song was a powerful and captivating movie. I definitely see why your parents named your brother Brian.
So sorry!
@kellmac Thank you. He was a rare and most kind soul. They're always gone too soon.
Rest in peace.
I'm sorry for your loss. May he RIP.
I enjoyed James Caan as a Vegas type character. He always seemed a little crooked but physically strong at every age. Good character actor.
I like how they all grow up so poor and tough and still manage college 😊
that's because tuition was like 450 which is about $3,500 today's money
agreed, it must be a miracle !!?? no, it's called "money talks and bullshit walks." every one of these "rags to riches" Hollyweird celebrities has this same story. And apparently, they go to great lengths to cover up their privileged upbringings.
@@bronxbomerpito7286 BS, "money talks and bullshit walks."
@@carlomiller1984 your comment makes absolutely no sense lmfao 🤣. Just randomly Money Talks and b******* walks like you have tourettes🤣
Got to make up that rags to riches story. A weJlywood staple.
He should’ve won an Oscar in “Thief”.
I’m a huge Mann but can’t get into that film.
Its shit @oophorror2251
@@oophorror2251 thief was one of the most realistic
Mann movies.
Mans man movie. No big dramatics.
Love this guy, and the narrator. This narrator should make audio books.
Young James Cann was such a handsome man...Hollywood handsome.
@@jakemoeller7850 yes he was one of the few handsome and sexy men that came out of there
Favorite narrator.
He can actually read, something that cannot be said for all of this channel's narrators! Scottish accent doesn't hurt either.
@@kayanneyoung9788 I guess he is real, nor computer generated
Living at the Playboy mansion didn't exactly put him on the straight lane to stardom.
It was notoriously known as a drug Haven.
And a honey trap…..
Stay out of the Hot Tub!
Was it there or the grotto, where people were getting a nasty infection?@@KB-eo9bu
Your point ? All of these people took drugs -
The frykowski/polanski/tate connection with the Tex watson murders are precisely about that.
James Caan was a wife beater. Doesn’t take much of a man who says he can’t control his temper when dealing with his wife yet if he was dealing with Tyson he would just smile and let it be.
Damn i never knew that about him. ..😮
Fun fact- James Caan played my grandfather in a movie he directed.
James Caan was unforgettable as Brian Piccolo in "Brian's Song." This made for tv movie is one of the best movies of the 1970s. At work, that movie was all we talked about.
I thought he acted like an insensitive , unaware racist in this TV movie.
Someone once related how, after being shown on a long flight, there wasn't a dry eye on the plane.
He was great in Rollerball.
Loved Rollerball
Jonathan
Yes, Jonathan E.🤌🏾
Rollerball was Caan at his best!
My FAVORITE Caan film, hands down! Forget Godfather, which was Pacino's movie, after all.
James Caan was the only actor I liked as much as Steve McQueen. Yes, basically he played himself and like McQueen I went to see his films to see him. James Caan at the end of "Slither" at the vegetable stand where he's shouting, "I didn't even know you guys last week!" Should have been Oscar gold. There are at least 10 James Caan films that are my favorite. That man was an amazing actor.
I had no idea he was in all these movies. I thought he was great in the godfather, someone said he was in Misery too? I've seen them both and no matter what anyone says, I thought he was a good actor. Thank you 💛 for sharing. 💛
You saw "Misery" and you don't remember him being in it?
With all this talk about which were his best films, I'm going to have to go back and watch some of 'em. I do remember really liking "Thief" and Peckinpah's "Killer Elite", which I have to wonder if it forced him to up his game, starring opposite Robert Duvall.
I never liked James Caan as an actor, but I'll listen to _any_ episode with this narrator. 😊
Also my favorite narrator.
Mine also.
Absolutely Agree
Punching John Wayne over a chess game?? Not a good move in Hollywood.
I only liked him a bit because he was never a Communist. That's very rare but was the main reason he wasn't liked in that town.
James Caan so good. I remember how much my mother loved Sonny in God father. 50 years later I found out that was the nick name of my actual father. Thanks 23 and me.
James Caan was actually a fairly small guy, way undersized for serious football. I liked Caan as casino executive Ed Deline on the TV series Las Vegas. He was perfectly cast. The show is still in reruns on some retro channels. Not for the youngsters, but well worth a look for grown ups.
There will never, ever be another James Caan.. fantastic actor.. ❤❤
Caan had the worst agent in Cinema history, how could he f*ck up his career after Godfather, I will never know.
You nailed it there.
Caan was a substance abuser, that’s how.
By refusing great roles?
He turned down Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer!
The Gambler(1974) was good
I’ve only seen his work from the 2000’s onwards and I loved him. Love that Scott is also an actor and a good one at that.
Scott Caan looks JUST LIKE his father!!
Loved him in el dorado !!
I seriously missed that James Caan passed away. Great Actor!!! Sadly he reminded me of my father who was a loving Dad, but a lousy Husband to his many Wives. They seemed to have that Brat Pack mentality.
He was an outstanding actor who made unbelievably horrible choices. I watched him in the 1960s in Eldorado, Glory Guys, and in the 1970s in The Godfather, Killer Elite, Brian's Song, Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady, the original 'Rollerball', A Bridge Too Far, Harry and Walter Go to New York, Chapter Two and the Thief.
He didn't waste his career, however, he did incredible damage to his personal life and well-being.
The great one. Thxx.
Where is the chilling confession about the guy who fell from his building though?
Thanks for letting me know. I won’t watch it.
16:07
@@welshwench4217Still not what I feel was represented at the beginning of the video. 😕
It’s addressed. More than half way through the episode.
Its click
Interesting things I had no idea about him. ~Thanks to the narrator for _making_ it interesting!
Caan coached a good friend of mine son in Little League. She handled photo day for the team two seasons. She said Scott was a great kid and good athlete. Caan was a great coach. Just another one of the Dads. It’s fun seeing a movie star in two Little League team pictures.
A few years prior to Godfather Caan was directed by Coppola in The Rain People in which he gives a devastating performance
One of my favorite actors and RIP!
He was great in the 1974 action comedy " Freebie and the Bean "
He had swagger - a very limited range but he chose his movies well
Not keen….he had a self confident swagger in every movie.
I absolutely Love, Love, Loved James Caan!!❤️🥰
I remember the first time I saw him in the movie “Brian’s Song” in the “70’s” and I cried my eyes out when his character died in the end.😢
Another great performance was his character Sonny in “The Godfather”. Sonny was my absolute favorite character in that movie and again cried my eyes out when his character was killed.😢
There are so many of his roles that I really loved and I always felt he that he was under appreciated in Hollywood for the really great actor that he was.
R.I.P. James Caan🙏🏻❤️☮️
Thief was his best roll
I used to have a huge crush on Caan and hen I was in my 20’s. He was definitely a ‘bad boy’!
James Caan was a cool dude.
16:42 Rollerball .Filmed in Munich,Rudi-Sedlmayer-Hall, now Audi-Dome
amazing career- and Brian's Song has to be up there- especially as a MOW!!!!
I wonder what the real story is regarding the fire escape death.
Both dead. Closed case.
How did Caan go from street fighting in the "getto?" to playing football and enrolled in college at 16 years old? WHAT? Then he decides to enroll at another college in NYC and then goes to California meets Coppolla and eventually gets in the movies?
Let's be honest, Caan didn't grow up in any getto and his parents obviously had the money to fund his colleges and travels and eventual stardom in the movies. Who are you kidding?
ghetto
You're missing several steps in between, slick.
@@do2219 tell me all about it, genius. And use your real name instead of hiding behind a fake ID like a coward troll, genius.
@@do2219 It sounds like jew bullshit, "HEB"
@@carlomiller1984 You seem nice.
2000 movie The Way of the Gun was a superb role for James Caan. Alongside others such as Benicio Del Torro, Ryan Phillipe, Julie Lewis and Scott Wilson. Very good casting!
Good research and narration!
James Caan had worked with Coppola in a film called The Rain People, the role he played being best described as "Forrest Gump in a film noir." Coppola figured that if Caan could play such a fairly pathetic schlub, then he really could act.
it wasn't a "film noir" and his character was mentally handicapped, not a "pathetic schlub".
I love this man's voice (narrator)
A wonderful actor and father... I think his son Scott is also unbelievably talented.
Lol his son barely knew him.
Didn’t know he made these many movies. Why can’t movie stars manage their own money? Very handsome
when young.
Actors would be well advised to keep their politics & personal life- strictly to themselves! Why whittle away at your fan base?
An excellent actor
I played poker with James Caan, the executive producer and the bad guys on the movie Erasar. He seemed ok to me.
I should say on the set of the movie, not in the movie.
Cinderella Liberty is my favorite Caan film....
@@godsowndrunk1118 A good film, while street-level realistic, showed how, with perseverance in the face of personal adversity, one can win, a subject not covered enough in today's films.
so what's the disturbing "confession"...? about the fire escape incident?
A lovers quarrel?
@@anneheimburger3186mafia hit??
WTF, they start with a tease about the guy who fell and then spend 20 minutes on a history of Caan's life, with virtually nothing about the teaser headline. Don't waste my time!
He said there was 8 stories
Talks about it at 14:50.
Kareem Abdul-Jabber is like hold my beer….
LEGEND 🔥
Sick of your click bait come-ons.
I became fond of him early on in the film Cinderella Liberty, great film
Great Video 👍
He had a sense of humor Hope he landed in green
Pastures
I was on set in Porky's III, the one where Caan was the good guy trying to show the hicks how dumb they were. The director called in sick one day and I was rushed into his place. Caan came out like a legend via my constant shouting and violence. He was such a puss.
Theif and Rollerball were his finest work.
Yeah !
Thief
He will always be Mr. Henry for me.
Of course, it’s his only great performance.
Scott Caan's mother is related to my uncle, she was a playboy model & dated Elvis.
We all believe you 😂🤪
@@Annie-ez4ol Google it Shelia Marie Ryan.
@@Annie-ez4ol google Sheila Marie Ryan.
@@Annie-ez4ol Google Scotts mother she grew up the next town from us in Franklin Park IL
Am I the only one who didn't see the hanging out with rappers and gone Suga Knight on one them them coming ? Everything else kind of went in line. That one throw me.
Misery was an awesome movie. I love Bateman💖
His best role was in Lady in a Cage, which I believe is also his first.
One of my favorite actors loved him in the thief
Pachino was only paid 25 thousand dollars for that role
But it lead to millions. Good loss leader.
Excellent documentary about Caan, who I met on the Godfather. Forgot he battled drugs and other demons--but maybe that's not an unusual Hollywood story. ivor davis
Ivor is a great name.
Please, GOD, 🙏 Be kind to James Caan 🛐✝️❣️❣️
Good vid.
The
Good
Ole
Days😊
I slept through the whole thing😂
Yeah a guy I don’t know that well fell off my balcony but I slept like a baby 😴
All this info and no mention of the greatest and most underrated James Caan movie of all time, "Thief"
I like him
More after this video 🎉
Cool. Thanks for reassuring me that my lifelong dislike of the man was justified.
This piece made no mention of the first movie I saw James Caan in. Namely, 'Lady in a Cage'.
I liked James caan, but iv only ever seen 2 of his films (3 if you include Godfather) Misery and Gardens of Stone.
"Gardens of Stone" That's another film for which he may well have been overlooked.
He looks like Edward burns. Love him in elf 🤗
Spaceballs would have been perfect for him, never mind
Hofstra is not in NYC, it's in Nassau County.
Hollywood messes all great stars up
I always liked James Caan and enjoyed several of his films. Now that I know he was a Trump supporter I like him even more. It’s rare to come across a celebrity who doesn’t toe the Hollywood line, and back in 2016 it was career destroying to say you were voting for Trump. If only more of them had the balls to speak out.
Misleading title , he didn’t die at a toll booth in real life
Ben Affleck kind of resembles a young James Caan.
You've got to be kidding.😂
So what happened to the guy who died
Well he did have a temper so maybe he was to blame for that guy falling off the building 🤔
How many marriages and life lessons can one learn to prevent repeating history. Clearly constant and numerous in this case. A sense of entitlement and indulgence. No sympathies here. Whilst the rest of us just get on with it. What a waste to be largely remembered for one role. 😮
He was terrific in a small crime thriller "Thief" and as the heavy in "Honeymoon in Vegas". Didn't see "Misery" but his reviews were pretty good in that as well. Let's face it, success in Hollywood is near impossible and even for actors whose names we know, they are frequently known for only one or two good movies. Superstars like Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, and Gene Hackman who play varied characters are the rarest of all.
The Gambler too. He was good in that. So was Big Paulie Sorvino.
a trumper? weel, that seals it
Your documentary didn't seem violent to me at all
Caan at 18 had the face of a 50 year old 😅
The same thing happened to Paul Lynde. Celebrities need to stop partying around balconies.
Why would the FBI think he could join their ranks? You have to be Italian on both sides. They know that
Where is the so called violence? I saw none. If I can't trust your titles, how am I supposed to trust anything else you present?
if caan had punched John Wayne he would've been dead... never happened .