John Cazale
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1974–1978
- Schools and movements
- New Hollywood
Directors worked with
Biography
John Holland Cazale was an American actor. He appeared in five films over seven years. Cazale started as a theater actor in Boston, ranging from regional, to off-Broadway, to Broadway acting alongside Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Sam Waterston. Cazale soon became one of Hollywood's premier character actors, starting with his role as the doomed, weak-minded Fredo Corleone alongside longtime friend Pacino in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). He also appeared in Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 1977, Cazale was diagnosed with lung cancer, but chose to complete his role in The Deer Hunter (1978). Shortly after filming was completed, he died in New York City on March 13, 1978, aged 42.
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4 films on this site
- The Conversation 1974 · Francis Ford Coppola · IMDb 7.7 · Cast
- The Godfather Part II 1974 · Francis Ford Coppola · IMDb 9.0 · Cast
- Dog Day Afternoon 1975 · Sidney Lumet · IMDb 8.0 · Cast
- The Deer Hunter 1978 · Michael Cimino · IMDb 8.1 · Cast