- Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 26, 1940) is an Academy Award- Golden Globe, AFI, Bafta, Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor played such iconic roles as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Trilogy" and Tony Montana in the 1983 film "Scarface". - Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded "Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". - Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as perhaps the most influential actor of the 20th Century. Brando is perhaps best known for his roles in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront", both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, … - Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 - July 2, 1999) was an American author known for his novels about the Mafia, especially "The Godfather" (1969). - Robert de Niro
Robert Mario De Niro Jr., credited professionally as Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), is an American film actor, director, and producer. He is noted for his method acting and portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters, for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese and for his early work with director Brian De Palma. - Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning 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 in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972). - James Caan
James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. He is known for his Academy Award nominated role of Sonny Corleone in 1972's "The Godfather" and for his role as Ed Deline on "Las Vegas". - Nino Rota
Nino Rota is best known for his unique 28-year-long association with Federico Fellini and his popular and prolific musical work (he composed 143 scores) for film and television. Almost all of the music used in Fellini's films from 1951 until 1979, were written or chosen by Rota. Simple, melodious, stanzaic, and, almost always, diatonic formulation characterizes the orchestration of many of his scores for Fellini. - Talia Shire
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Her name is in honor of her country of origin (Italia). Born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York; she is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. - Gordon Willis
Gordon Willis (born May 28, 1931 in Queens, New York, United States) is a highly respected Hollywood cinematographer best known for his work on the "The Godfather" series, and on Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan". Willis is famed for his penchant at photographing in extremely dark conditions, an approach which earned him the nickname "The Prince of Darkness", a moniker attributed to him by his friend Conrad Hall. - Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and "film noir". He is most noted for his appearance as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964). He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" in 1972. - Robert Evans
Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera June 29, 1930 in New York, New York) is a film producer best known for his work on "Rosemary's Baby", "Love Story", "The Godfather" and "Chinatown" as well as his hedonistic lifestyle and seven marriages. - Abe Vigoda
Abe Vigoda (born Abraham Charles Vigodah on February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor. Vigoda was born in New York City to Lena and Samuel Vigodah, Jewish immigrants from Russia. Vigoda gained fame through his supporting character roles, notably as mobster Sal Tessio in the 1972 movie "The Godfather". He later played Detective Sgt. Fish on the television series "Barney Miller" and its spinoff "Fish". - Richard Conte
Richard Conte was an American actor who appeared in films such as "I'll Cry Tomorrow" and "The Godfather". He was born Nicholas Conte of Italian ancestry in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of a barber. In 1935, Conte was spotted by Elia Kazan and John Garfield when he was working as an entertainer at a Connecticut resort, which led to Conte finding stage work. - Mark Winegardner
Mark Winegardner (born November 24, 1961) is an American writer born and raised in Bryan, Ohio. His novels include "The Godfather Returns", Crooked River Burning, and The Veracruz Blues. He published a collection of short stories, That's True of Everybody, in 2002. His newest novel, "The Godfather's Revenge", was published in November 2006 by Putnam. His Godfather novels continue the story of the Corleone family depicted in Mario Puzo's "The Godfather". - Gianni Russo
Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo (born December 12, 1943) in Brooklyn is an American actor best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 movie "The Godfather". In the 2006 book "Supermob" by investigative reporter Gus Russo (no relation mentioned), the author writes that Gianni Russo secured his role in "The Godfather" by acting as an intermediary between Paramount Studios and NYC Mafia don Joe Colombo Sr., … - Al Martino
Al Martino (born October 7, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Alfred Cini) is an Italian-American singer and actor. After service with the U.S. Marines in World War II, including being a part of the Iwo Jima invasion where he was wounded, he commenced his singing career. His single "Here In My Heart" was number one in the first UK Singles Chart, published by the "New Musical Express" in 1952, putting him into the Guinness Book of World Records. - Richard Bright
Richard J. Bright was an American actor known for his role as Al Neri in the "The Godfather" films. - Walter Murch
Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning film editor/sound mixer. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961. He then attended Johns Hopkins University from 1961 to 1965, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in Liberal Arts. While at Hopkins, he met future director/screenwriter Matthew Robbins and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, with whom he staged a number of happenings. - Richard S. Castellano
Richard S. Castellano was an American actor. Born in the Bronx, his greatest fame came from playing the part of Vito Corleone's Capo, Pete Clemenza, in "The Godfather". One of his most famous Quotes of the film is " Leave the gun, take the cannoli."(After witnessing the murder of Paulie Gatto.) He also appeared on television, playing the lead role of Joe Girelli in the TV sitcom "The Super". Richard Castellano died from a heart attack at the age of 55. - John Marley
John Marley (October 17, 1907 - May 22, 1984) was an American actor who is best known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in "Love Story" and as Jack Woltz - who receives a horse's head in his bed - in "The Godfather". He was also the lead in John Cassavetes' breakthrough feature "Faces". Marley was a familiar character actor, who appeared in nearly 150 films and television shows throughout a career that lasted some 45 years. - Robert Towne
Robert Burton Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is the author of many notable film scripts, including "Chinatown" (1974), for which he received an Oscar, its sequel, "The Two Jakes" (1990), and "Shampoo" (1975), as well as the first two "Mission Impossible" films. He is also noted as an uncredited script doctor who has worked in such a capacity for "The Godfather" and other notable movies. - Al Lettieri
Al Lettieri was an Italian American actor, best known for his portrayal of Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo in "The Godfather". Lettieri convincingly projected a remarkable aura of menace and ruthlessness in his film roles, which he attributed to his acquaintance with real-life gangsters, including Joey Gallo. He made his on screen debut in the made for TV film "The Hanged Man". - Peter Bart
Peter Bart, an American journalist and film producer born July 24, 1932 (some reports claim 1930), has been the editor-in-chief of "Variety" since 1989. Bart also serves as vice-president and editor-in-chief of Variety, Inc., and presides over its sister publications "Daily Variety" and "Daily Variety - The Gotham Edition". Bart also appears on a weekly AMC television program, "Sunday Morning Shootout", with film producer Peter Guber. - Dean Tavoularis
Dean Tavoularis (born January 1, 1932) is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as "The Godfather" movies, "Apocalypse Now", "The Brink's Job", "One from the Heart" and "Bonnie and Clyde". - Martin Brest
Martin Brest (August 8, 1951) is an American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York University's School of the Arts in 1973 and from the AFI Conservatory with an M.F.A. degree in 1977. His film debut as a director/writer was with 1979's "Going in Style", which starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg. - Charles Wright
Charles Dobson Wright (born May 16, 1961) is an American businessperson and retired professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation throughout the 1990s and early 2000s under the ring names Papa Shango, Kama Mustafa, The Godfather and The Goodfather. - Morgana King
Morgana King (born Maria Grazia Morgana Messina DeBerardinis on June 4 1930) is a jazz singer who has recorded over thirty albums to date. King was born in Pleasantville, New York of half Sicilian and half Portuguese descent, and as a vocalist toured extensively giving memorable concerts in Rome, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. - Spoonie Gee
Spoonie Gee is an American rapper of the early days of hip hop. He recorded for Bobby Robinson's Enjoy Records and Peter Brown's Sounds Of New York, USA imprint. He sometimes performed and recorded as part of Spoonie Gee & Treacherous Three. There is some controversy over the spelling of his nickname. In "Spoonin' Rap" he is heard spelling his own name as S to the p-double o-n-y. In interviews he says his nickname is correctly spelled with a 'Y', … - Dick Smith
Dick Smith (born Richard Emerson Smith, June 26, 1922 in Larchmont, New York) is a make-up artist known for his work on such films as "The Godfather", "The Exorcist", "Taxi Driver", and "Little Big Man". He won an Academy Award for Makeup for his work on "Amadeus". He has been married to Jocelyn De Rosa since 1944, with whom he has two children. Smith attended the Wooster School and Yale University, the latter where he studied pre-med, … - Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born Joel Katz on April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stage and screen actor, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California in 1950. - Fred Roos
Fred Roos (May 22, 1934, Santa Monica, California) is a noted American film producer. Beginning in television as a casting director for The Andy Griffith Show, Roos went on to produce most of Francis Ford Coppola's films subsequent to "The Godfather", including "Apocalypse Now" and the forthcoming "Youth Without Youth". Roos won the Oscar for Best Film for producing "The Godfather, Part II". - Joe Spinell
Joe Spinell, born Joseph J. Spagnuolo, was an Italian-American actor who played small roles in several famous films of the 1970s. Spinell's most notable roles were in "The Godfathers" I and II, "Rocky"'s I & II and "Taxi Driver". Although primarily known as a character actor, Spinell co-wrote and starred as a serial killer in the 1980 William Lustig directed film, "Maniac". - Sacheen Littlefeather
Sacheen Littlefeather (born Maria Cruz on 30 January 1947) Salinas, California, USA is an activist who donned Apache dress and rejected the Oscar on behalf of actor Marlon Brando in a prepared statement at the Academy Awards on March 27, 1973. Marlon Brando became involved with the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s. - Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola (born 22 April 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is an American film director and music video director. He attended New York University's film school. He is the son of 5-time Academy Award winning director, producer, and writer Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola, brother of Academy Award winning film director Sofia Coppola and the late Gian-Carlo Coppola, first cousin to actor Nicolas Cage. - Don Tommasino
Don Lionele Tommasino(1896-1980) is a nonfictional character from "The Godfather" series of books and films.Also in the late 1890s their was a real Don Tommasino in Sicily. Tommasino was an old friend of Vito Corleone who lived in Vito's native village of Corleone, Sicily. When Vito returned to the village in the 1920s looking to exact revenge on Don Ciccio for the latter's role in the murder of his parents, Tommasino assisted him in his scheme. - Franco Citti
Franco Citti (born 23 April 1935) is an Italian actor. He burst onto screens at the age of 26, playing the title role in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film "Accattone". In 1967 he appeared in the title role in Pasolini's version of "Oedipus Rex". He is perhaps best-known to non-Italian audienes as Calo in The Godfather I and III and uttering the immortal line 'In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns'. - Stephanie Watson
I'm multilayered like a parfait! "And every one knows that parfaits are delicious!" ~ Donkey in "Schreck". - Luis
- Cynthia Copeland
So umm...my account has been hacked. Just about everything on here, such as my layout, my slide show and everything I wrote in this "about me" section is gone. Thank you very much, you fuck mutants. So until I can get everything on here the way I want, my page will be under maintenance for a while. Whoever got the pleasure to hack my page, great. I hope to one day hack your unit off. Have a wonderful day.
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