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<\/p>\nCaan was best known for his explosive performances as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and a dying football player in the made-for-TV movie Brian’s Song (for which he received nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy, respectively).<\/p>\n
Caan also contributed an eminently watchable machismo to numerous other movies and television programs. He played a famous author kept hostage by Kathy Bates in the film Misery. <\/p>\n
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He played a heartbroken Vietnam veteran who was unwillingly manning the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Gardens of Stone. He portrayed an anti-type role in Elf as the father of the main character and a failed children’s book publisher.<\/p>\n
Caan entered Hollywood like a comet after beginning in theater and television, making appearances in movies by some of the most well-known auteurs of the time, such as Howard Hawks (El Dorado), Robert Altman (Countdown), and Francis Ford Coppola (The Rain People). <\/p>\n
After his early success burst, he experienced a challenging time on both a personal and professional level.<\/p>\n
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Caan repeatedly got married and divorced, got into fights on the set, and openly suffered from anxiety.<\/p>\n
He admitted to The New York Times in 1991 that he had yet to see some of the pictures he had created. <\/p>\n
‘When I started creating them, I was sad. What am I doing here in the middle of some of these images, I kept asking myself. It’s as though you’re trapped in a hallway and unable to go.’<\/p>\n
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Caan continued to work steadily right up until the end of his life, appearing in animated episodes of Family Guy and The Simpsons as colonels, grandparents, and, eventually, as himself.<\/p>\n