John Cazale
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.
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime...
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The Godfather Part II
as Frederico 'Fredo' CorleoneIn the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily...
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The Deer Hunter
as StanA group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds...
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The Conversation
as StanA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the...
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Dog Day Afternoon
as SalBased on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile....
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The Freshman
as Fredo Corleone (archive footage) (uncredited)After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling...
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The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Fredo CorleoneFollowing the release of The Godfather Part III in 1990, Coppola, Barry Malkin, and Walter Murch...
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The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
as Fredo Corleone (archive footage)A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from...
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self (archive footage)John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II,...
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The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
as Frederico "Fredo" CorleoneThe Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977...
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Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
as Self (archive footage)Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still...
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Becoming Al Pacino
as Self (archive footage)A journey through the meteoric rise and tempestuous story of the legendary American actor Al...
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The American Way
as BeatnikA comedy short which pokes merry anarchistic fun at such quintessential American institutions as...
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Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Frederico "Fredo" CorleoneAn adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, re-edited in...
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N.Y.P.D.
as Tom AndrewsN.Y.P.D. is the title of a half-hour American television crime drama of the 1960s set in the...
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