John Cazale
August 12, 1935 (89 years old) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
John Holland Cazale (August 12, 1935 - March 12, 1978) was an American actor. He appeared in five films during six years, each one nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter. He appeared in archival footage in The Godfather Part III, also nominated for Best Picture, making him the only actor to have this multi-film distinction. From his start as a theater actor, he became one of Hollywood's premier character actors, starting with his role as the doomed, weak-minded Fredo Corleone opposite longtime friend Al Pacino in Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather and its 1974 sequel.
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- 2022 · Becoming Al Pacino as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self (archive footage)
- 1992 · The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Fredo Corleone
- 1990 · The Freshman as Fredo Corleone (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1990 · The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Fredo Corleone (archive footage)
- 1981 · The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic as Frederico "Fredo" Corleone
- 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Stan
- 1977 · Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television as Frederico "Fredo" Corleone
- 1975 · Dog Day Afternoon as Sal
- 1974 · The Godfather Part II as Frederico 'Fredo' Corleone
- 1974 · The Conversation as Stan
- 1972 · The Godfather as Fredo Corleone
- 1967 · N.Y.P.D. as Tom Andrews
- 1962 · The American Way as Beatnik