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James Caan: the hard-working star who mixed the rough with the smooth

James Caan had a Hollywood career spanning 60 years, his muscular physique and open, expressive, handsome face making him eminently castable in any and every kind of drama, though not exactly as a romantic lead. It was his destiny to be associated with one great role: Santino “Sonny” Corleone, eldest son and putative heir of mob chieftain Vito Corleone in Coppola’s classic movies The Godfather and The Godfather Part II – Sonny is the raging hothead, the uneducated loudmouth, the undisciplined id of the mobster mind, without his father’s strategic

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