The actor, who was one of the emblematic faces of the “New Hollywood”, was 82 years old.
Le Monde
We saw him in the godfather, by Francis Ford Coppola (1972) who revealed him, Rollerball, from Norman Jewison (1975), elite killer, of Sam Peckinpah (1975) or in Blood Ties, de Guillaume Canet (2019).
James Caan, one of the emblematic faces of “New Hollywood” – American cinematographic movement from the late 1960s to the early 1980s – died Wednesday July 6, announced his family on his account Twitter official. He was 82 years old.
James Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in New York, within a Jewish family of German origin. His first physical education was to transport beef carcasses at 5 am for his father, who worked in the wholesale market. “>
Young James Caan lives in the street, plays gang leaders. Sport allows him not to become a professional thug. “I became an actor after trying everything else, basketball, football, fight in the street, master-sex on beaches, sports director in a vacation camp … that’s where I discovered pleasures perverse of comedy, “he told the world in 1988.