James Caan

**James Edmund Caan** (/kɑːn/ KAHN; 26 ga Maris, 1940 - 6 ga Yuli, 2022) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na Amurka. Ya zama sananne a matsayin Sonny Corleone a cikin The Godfather (1972), wanda aka zaba shi don Kyautar Kwalejin da Golden Globe don Mafi Kyawun Mai Taimako. Ya sami Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars">tauraron a kan Hollywood Walk of Fame a shekarar 1978. 

Bayan rawar da ya taka a cikin Howard Hawks *'El Dorado* (1966), Robert Altman's Countdown (1967) da Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), Caan ya sami yabo saboda yadda ya nuna Brian Piccolo a cikin fim din talabijin na 1971 Brian's Song, wanda ya sami lambar yabo ta Emmy ta farko don fitaccen Actor a cikin Limited Series ko Movie nomination. Caan ya sami gabatarwa na Golden Globe Award saboda wasan kwaikwayon da ya yi a cikin wasan kwaikwayo The Gambler (1974), da kuma wasan kwaikwayo na Funny Lady (1975). Ya ci gaba da samun muhimmiyar rawa a fina-finai irin su *Cinderella Liberty* (1973), Rollerball (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Comes a Horseman (1978), *Babi na Biyu* (1979) da Thief (1981).

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Caan a ranar 26 ga Maris, 1940, a cikin Bronx, Birnin New York, ga Sophie (née Falkenstein; 1915-2016)  da Arthur Caan (1909-1986), baƙi Yahudawa daga Bingen da Rhein, Rhineland, Jamus. Mahaifinsa ya sayar da nama iri-iri, a cewar James Caan a wata hira da Charlie Rose da kuma naman kosher. James ya girma yaro ne mai rai kuma sau da yawa yana shiga cikin fadace-fadacen titi. A wannan lokacin, yana jin daɗin dambe, Rodeo da hawa babur. Ɗaya daga cikin 'yan uwa uku,   Caan ya girma a Sunnyside, Queens.   'Yar'uwarsa, Barbara Emily Caan Licker, ta mutu daga cutar sankara a shekarar 1981, tana da shekaru 38. 

Caan ta yi karatu a Birnin New York, kuma daga baya ta halarci Jami'ar Jihar Michigan (MSU). Ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity a lokacin shekaru biyu da ya yi a Jihar Michigan .  A lokacin da yake a MSU ya buga kwallon kafa a matsayin mai tsaron gida na Kocin Duffy Daugherty amma ya zauna na shekara guda kawai a shekarar 1956. Daga baya ya koma Jami'ar Hofstra a Hempstead, New York, amma bai kammala karatu ba. Abokan ajiyarsa a Hofstra sun hada da Francis Ford Coppola da Lainie Kazan . 

Yayinda yake karatu a Jami'ar Hofstra, Caan ya zama mai sha'awar yin wasan kwaikwayo. Ya shiga makarantar wasan kwaikwayo ta Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre ta Birnin New York,  inda ya yi karatu na tsawon shekaru biyar. Ɗaya daga cikin masu koyar da shi shine Sanford Meisner .  "Na fada cikin soyayya da wasan kwaikwayo," daga baya ya tuna. "Tabbas duk ci gaban da na samu ya ƙare cikin tashin hankali. "

## Ayyuka

### Shekaru na 1960
Caan ya fara bayyana a waje da Broadway a cikin wasan kwaikwayo kamar Arthur Schnitzler's La *Ronda*  kafin ya fara bugawa Broadway a 1961 a Blood, Sweat da Stanley Poole .  A shekara ta 1969, ya fito a cikin Coppola's The Rain People . 

Farkon fitowar Caan a talabijin ya kasance a cikin *Yaƙi!* labari na Naked City .  An kuma gan shi a cikin abubuwan da suka faru na Play of the Week, Route 66, Alcoa Premiere, Dr. Kildare, The Untouchables (a cikin wani baƙo mai suna Lee Marvin), The Doctors and the Nurses, Wagon Train, Death Valley Days (sau biyu),  Wide Country, da Combat! a matsayin sajan Jamusanci mai basira. Ya yi baƙo a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na *Ben Casey* da Kraft Suspense . 

Fim dinsa na farko shi ne Irma la Douce (1963), inda yake da wani bangare wanda ba a san shi ba a matsayin soja na Amurka tare da rediyo mai rikitarwa wanda ya fi sha'awar wasan baseball fiye da yarinyar. A cewar mai sukar Stephen Vagg a cikin mujallar *Filmink*:

Matsayin fim na farko na Caan ya kasance a matsayin dan wasan kwaikwayo wanda ya fitar da idanunsa a cikin fim din 1964 mai suna Lady in a Cage, wanda ya fito da Olivia de Havilland, wanda ya yaba da aikin Caan. Ya taka rawa a cikin The Alfred Hitchcock Hour da Wagon Train .  Ya kasance na huɗu a cikin fasalin Yamma, The Glory Guys (1965).  Ya ƙi rawar da ya taka a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin a wannan lokacin, yana cewa, "Ina so in zama ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ba miliyoyin ba".

A shekara ta 1965, Caan ya fara taka rawa a *Wasanni* kwaikwayo na Howard Hawks na *Red Line 7000* .  Ba nasarar kudi ba ce. Koyaya, Hawks yana son Caan kuma ya jefa shi a fim dinsa na gaba, *El Dorado*, yana wasa da Alan Bourdillion Traherne, wanda ake kira Mississippi, don tallafawa John Wayne da Robert Mitchum. Ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a fim na biyu na Robert Altman, Countdown (1967)  kuma ya kasance na biyu a cikin Curtis Harrington thriller Games (1967).  Caan ya tafi Ingila don fitowa a fim din yaki, Submarine X-1 (1968),  sannan ya jagoranci a Yammacin, Journey to Shiloh (1968). 

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