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The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling...
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, Tony Montana in Scarface, Carlito...
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He was named the fourth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The...
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Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to...
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Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972),...
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John Cazale
John Cazale (English pronunciation: /kəˈzeɪl/, Italian pronunciation: [kaˈzaːle]) August 12, 1935 – March 12, 1978), was an American film and theater actor. During his six-year film career he appeared in five films, each of which was nominated for...
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James Caan
James Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American actor. He is best-known for his role of Santino 'Sonny' Corleone in 1972's The Godfather. He also starred as Paul Sheldon in Stephen King's Misery, 'Big' Ed Deline in the television series Las Vegas,...
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Gabriele Torrei
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Joe Spinell
Joe Spinell (October 28, 1936 – January 13, 1989) was an American character actor, who appeared in numerous films from the 1970s to the 1980s.
Joe Spinell was born Joseph J. Spagnuolo in Manhattan, New York of Italian immigrant parents, and the last...
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Tom Rosqui
Thomas Francis "Tom" Rosqui (12 June 1928 - 12 April 1991) was an American character actor with extensive stage experience.
Rosqui was born in Oakland, California, the son of Sally (née Fernandes), a homemaker, and Thomas A. Rosqui, a traffic...
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Louis Guss
Louis Guss (January 4, 1918 - September 29, 2008) was an American character actor with a long line of screen credits, having appeared in hundreds of TV series, feature films and stage productions, specializing in blue-collar ethnic roles, over a...
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Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.
Coppola was born in New York...
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Simonetta Stefanelli
Simonetta Stefanelli (30 November 1954) is an Italian actress, born in Rome, Italy.
Stefanelli was born in Rome. She is best known outside Italy for her role in The Godfather (1972), in which she played Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone, Michael Corleone's...
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Victor Rendina
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John Martino
John Martino (born May 5, 1937) is an American actor.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he began his singing and acting career as a teenager. He studied with John Cassavetes, Academy of Dramatic Arts and Universal Art Studios, which led to off...
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Morgana King
Morgana King (also known as 'Mo' / 'Moe') is an American singer and actress. She is a noted jazz diva, a highly acclaimed jazz legend who is regarded as a "musician's singer." The musical oeuvre of her stylized vocal artistry spans a period of more...
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Alex Rocco
Alex Rocco (born February 29, 1936) is an American actor. His roles have ranged from comedy to playing gangsters in Mafia movies.
Rocco was born Alexander Federico Petricone, Jr. in Cambridge, Massachusetts but raised in Somerville, Massachusetts,...
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John Marley
John Marley (October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984) was an American actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz— the movie mogul who finds his horse's head in his bed—in The Godfather (1972). He was also the lead in...
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Al Martino
Al Martino (born Alfred Cini, October 7, 1927 – October 13, 2009) was an American singer and actor. Allmusic journalist Steve Huey states, "Martino was one of the great Italian American pop crooners, boasting a string of hit singles and albums that...
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Richard Conte
Richard Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in numerous films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather.
Richard Conte was born Nicholas Peter Conte on March 24, 1910, in New...
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Lenny Montana
Lenny Montana (born Leonardo Passofaro) (March 13, 1926, Brooklyn, New York City – May 12, 1992, Long Island, New York) was an American actor, best known for his role of feared hitman Luca Brasi in The Godfather. Prior to becoming an actor, he had a...
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Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden (March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted...
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Gianni Russo
Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo (born December 12, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and singer.
Russo was raised in Rosebank, Staten Island. He claims that he has Mob connections and that his uncle was a soldier in the Gambino crime...
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Al Lettieri
Alfred Lettieri (February 24, 1928 – October 18, 1975) was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo in The Godfather.
Lettieri projected an aura of menace and ruthlessness in his film roles, which he attributed...
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Abe Vigoda
Abraham Charles "Abe" Vigoda (born February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on the sitcom television series Barney Miller from 1975-1977 and for his portrayal of Sal...
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Richard S. Castellano
Richard Salvatore Castellano (September 4, 1933 – December 10, 1988) was an American actor.
Castellano was born in the Bronx. His greatest fame came from playing the part of Peter Clemenza, in The Godfather. His most famous quote from the film is ...
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Talia Shire
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946) is an American actress.
Shire was born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York, the daughter of Italia (née Pennino) and arranger/composer Carmine Coppola. Her name is in honor of her ancestral country (Italy)....
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Vincent Trok
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Richard Bright
Richard J. Bright (June 28, 1937 – February 18, 2006) was an American actor best known for his role as Al Neri in the The Godfather films.
Bright was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Matilda (née Scott) and Ernest Bright, who was a shipbuilder...
