James Caan, an onscreen tough guy and movie craftsman, has died at 82

 James Edmund Caan was an athletic youngster from the Bronx, the child of German-Jewish settlers who grew up to play intense film folks: mariners, football players, and criminals. He was one of the most unmistakable screen entertainers of his time.

He passed on July 6, as indicated by a post on his authority Twitter account. No further subtleties were accessible.

Most famous for his unstable turn as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and as a perishing proficient football player in the made-for-TV-film Brian's Song (which procured him Oscar and Emmy selections, separately), Caan loaned a famously watchable machismo to many movies and shows. In Misery, he was a well-known creator held hostage by Kathy Bates. In Gardens of Stone, he was a heartsick Vietnam vet hesitantly watching the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In Elf, he played against type as a weak youngsters' book distributor who is likewise the principal character's father.

Subsequent to beginning in theater and TV, Caan burst into Hollywood like a comet, showing up in films by probably the most famous auteurs of the period, including Howard Hawks. His explosion of early achievement prompted a time of trouble, both individual and expert. Caan wedded and separated from a few times, got into on-set contentions, and openly battled with substance misuse and melancholy.

He turned down various movies that would end up being urgent for different entertainers, including Kramer versus Kramer, Apocalypse Now, M*A*S*H and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, picking projects rather that became flops.

"There are pictures I made that I actually haven't seen," he told The New York Times in 1991. "I was discouraged when I was making them. In a portion of these photos, I continued thinking, 'What am I doing here?' It resembles you're in a lobby and you can't get out."

Hopelessness helped make something happen. The previous competitor spent a large part of the 1990 film attached to a bed. Caan additionally moored the film inwardly. His actorly range was monstrous; he acted in routine movies like Funny Lady and For The Boys yet in addition in dull, serious movies, for example, Dogville by Danish auteur Lars von Trier.

Caan worked consistently up for the rest of his life, playing grandparents, colonels, and unavoidably, himself, in energized appearances on Family Guy and The Simpsons.

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