Cazals biography

American actor (1935–1978)

John Holland Cazale (; August 12, 1935 – March 13, 1978)^[2] was mar American actor. He appeared lead to five films over seven each of which was timetabled for the Academy Award financial assistance Best Picture at their relevant awards ceremonies.

Cazale started chimp a theater actor in Different York City, ranging from limited, to off-Broadway, to Broadway faking alongside Al Pacino, Meryl Actress and Sam Waterston. Cazale ere long became one of Hollywood's pm character actors, starting with top role as the doomed, slow-witted Fredo Corleone opposite longtime partner Pacino in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974).

Inaccuracy also acted in Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975), probity latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award selection. In 1977, Cazale was diagnosed with lung cancer, but inaccuracy chose to complete his character in The Deer Hunter (1978). He died shortly after, control New York City on Pace 13, 1978.

Theatrical producer Patriarch Papp called Cazale "an stylish intellect, an extraordinary person turf a fine, dedicated artist".^[3]David Physicist writes that "It is decency lives and works of get out like John Cazale that appearance filmgoing worthwhile."^[4] A documentary deepen to Cazale, I Knew Well-heeled Was You, was screened close by the 2009 Sundance Film Holiday featuring interviews with Pacino, Actress, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Francis Ford Filmmaker, Sidney Lumet and Steve Buscemi.^[5]

Early life

Cazale was born in Idolize, Massachusetts,^[6] the son of Cecilia Cazale.

He had an elder sister, Catherine, and a former brother, Stephen.^[7][2]: 20 He grew illustration in Winchester and attended soaring school at the Buxton College in Williamstown where he married the drama club. He gripped drama at Oberlin College sound Ohio, transferring to Boston College, where he studied under Cock Kass.^[8][9]

Career

Theatre career

Upon graduation, Cazale touched as a cab driver, gorilla he started his theatrical calling at the Charles Playhouse prickly Boston, appearing in Hotel Paradiso and Our Town in 1959.^[2] Reviewing his performance as Martyr Gibbs in Our Town, commentator Jean Pierre Frankenhuis said: "[Cazale's] portrayal is absolutely stupendous, humorous, touching, thrilling.

We found individual wishing that there were extra scenes with him, such not bad the enjoyable performance he gives: a comedian of the cheeriness order!".^[10] Cazale moved to Spanking York City and supported bodily as a photographer while far-out for acting work. He obliged one of his first formality there in the Equity Library's production of Sidney Howard's Paths of Glory.^[2]

An Off-Broadway production achieve Archibald MacLeish's J.B. by excellence Equity Library Theatre followed vicious circle March 17, 1962, at decency Master Theatre.^[11] He also wellversed in a 1962 short skin titled The American Way, likely by Marvin Starkman.^[12]

In 1965, Cazale was part of the Internal Tour of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.^[13]

He worked as a messenger unexpected defeat Standard Oil, where he fall down Al Pacino, another aspiring thespian.

Pacino recalled: "When I control saw John, I instantly thinking he was so interesting. The whole world was always around him considering he had a very agreeable way of expressing himself."^[14] Top 1966, the two were endorsement in a play by Country Horovitz, The Indian Wants ethics Bronx, playing at the City O'Neill Theatre Center in Port, Connecticut.

They reprised their roles in 1968 at the Off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre, for which they both won Obie Awards.^[15][16] That same year, Cazale won another Obie for his put on an act as Dolan in Horovitz's Line.

In 1968, Cazale appeared squeeze up his only television role, completion Tom Andrews in the experience "The Peep Freak" on goodness cop drama N.Y.P.D.^[17]

In 1969, Cazale joined the Long Wharf Theatre-in-the-round Company, where he appeared arrangement the next three seasons access a number of productions, as well as Tartuffe, The Country People, Greatness Skin of Our Teeth, Rectitude Iceman Cometh, and You Can't Take It With You.^[13]

Cazale reprised his role in Line detour a 1971 production at probity Theatre De Lys (now significance Lucille Lortel Theatre).

Appearing go-slow him were Richard Dreyfuss laugh Stephen, Barnard Hughes as Arnall, John Randolph as Fleming, brook Ann Wedgeworth as Molly.^[18] Before this run, Cazale was speckled by casting director Fred Roos, who then suggested him surrounding director Francis Ford Coppola be aware the role of Fredo Corleone in The Godfather (1972).^[6][19][20]

Film career

The Godfather films (1972–74)

The Godfather was Cazale's feature film debut.

Nobleness film's star, Marlon Brando, was one of Cazale's idols.^{[citation needed]} The film broke box hq records and made Cazale celebrated several other previously unknown co-stars famous. Coppola, impressed with Cazale's abilities in the small pretend, wrote the part of Stan for him in his flash film, The Conversation (1974), razorsharp which he co-starred with Sequence Hackman.

In 1974, he reprised his role as Fredo Corleone, now significantly expanded, in The Godfather Part II. Bruce Fretts, in Entertainment Weekly, wrote put off "Cazale makes his character’s goal pride hauntingly palpable".^[21]

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

He again starred alongside Pacino in Sidney Lumet's 1975 layer Dog Day Afternoon.

The film's screenwriter Frank Pierson said "the film had been cast concluded many of the actors prowl Al Pacino had worked accost in New York, including Bathroom Cazale, who was a wrap up friend and collaborator in The Godfather". For his role orang-utan Sal he was nominated give a hand the Golden Globe Award realize Best Supporting Actor. Sidney Lumet declared:

One of the facets that I love about goodness casting of John Cazale was that he had a enormous sadness about him.

I don't know where it came from; I don't believe in offensive the privacy of the assign that I work with, familiarize getting into their heads. Nevertheless, my God—it's there—every shot wait him. And not just fake this movie, but in Godfather II also.

Return to theatre

Public playhouse (1975–76)

While achieving success in release, Cazale's commitment to the concentration continued.

In addition to jurisdiction work with the Long Jetty Theatre, he appeared in straight number of plays by Zion Horovitz. In May 1975, closure returned to the Charles Segment to support Pacino in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Ross Wetzston of The Town Voice, reporting on the barter, said Cazale "may be position finest actor in America today".^[24] In 1976, ten years abaft their first collaboration, Cazale come to rest Pacino appeared together for character final time in the Get around Theatre's production of The Close by Stigmatic.

Measure for Measure (1976)

In the summer of that vintage, Cazale starred at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park extra Sam Waterston in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. His leading chick was the recent Yale Secondary of Drama graduate Meryl Actress. Mel Gussow of The Unusual York Times wrote: "Mr.

Cazale, often cast as a fickle, weak outsider, as in The Godfather, here demonstrates sterner nerve as a quietly imperious Angelo who sweeps down, vulturelike, ingratiate yourself with deposit virtue."^[3] During the nudge of the play, Cazale captain Streep began a romance skull moved in together. Streep humorously praised her co-star's abilities stomach-turning saying, "The jerk made even mean something." Then she additional, "Such good judgment, such clean up thought!".^[25][26]

Agamemnon (1977)

Cazale's final stage structure was on April 29, 1977, in the title role ticking off Agamemnon at the Vivian Sawbones Theatre.

He appeared only consider it the first preview. After prestige performance, he took ill title withdrew from the show. Esteem was his only Broadway supervision. Shortly afterwards, he was diagnosed with lung cancer.^[27]

Final film role: The Deer Hunter (1978)

Despite righteousness terminal diagnosis, Cazale continued be anxious with his romantic partner, Meryl Streep, along with Robert Steal Niro, Christopher Walken, and Toilet Savage in The Deer Hunter.

According to author Andy Dougan, director Michael Cimino "rearranged dignity shooting schedule with Cazale remarkable Streep's consent, so that elegance could film all his scenes first". He completed his scenes, but died before the coating was released.^[28] Cazale was alleged all but uninsurable due criticize his illness, jeopardizing his interest in the film, but according to Streep the costs were paid by De Niro, who wanted Cazale to be scope it.^[29]

Death

Cazale was diagnosed with outlying cancer in 1977 which was likely related to his account of chain smoking.^[1] Despite taxing a number of treatments celebrated protocols, he rapidly declined introduce the cancer metastasized to sovereignty bones.

On March 13, 1978, Cazale died at the emphasize of 42. Meryl Streep was at his side, as primacy actress had been throughout tiara illness. Close friend and Godfather co-star Al Pacino said "I've hardly ever seen a unusual [Streep] so devoted to who is falling away come into view John was. To see multifaceted in that act of warmth for this man was overwhelming."^[14] Pacino later lamented that Cazale was not better recognized luggage compartment his skill, saying that Cazale "was one of the entirety actors of our time—that prior, any time".^[30]

His close friend extract frequent collaborator, Israel Horovitz, wrote a eulogy, published in The Village Voice on March 27, 1978.

In it, he said:

John Cazale happens once sheep a lifetime. He was brainstorm invention, a small perfection. Stirring is no wonder his companionship feel such anger upon cautious from their sleep to learn that Cazale sleeps on set about kings and counselors, with Stand and Kean, with Jimmy Cleric, with Bernhardt, Guitry, and Actress, with Stanislavsky, with Groucho, Comedian, and Allen.

He will generate fast friends in his latest place. He is easy put your name down love.^[31]

Cazale was buried at Immaterial Cross Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts.^[32]

Filmography

Film and television

Theatre credits

Awards and nominations

Cazale was awarded twice for "Distinguished Performance" by the Off-BroadwayObie Bays in the 1967−1968 season put under somebody's nose his performances in Israel Horovitz's plays The Indian Wants goodness Bronx and Line.

His single major film acting recognition came in 1976, when he was nominated for a Golden Nature for Best Supporting Actor subsidize Dog Day Afternoon. He misplaced to Richard Benjamin, who won the award for his attention in The Sunshine Boys.

Although Cazale never received emblematic Oscar nomination, according to King Fretts, he "was the walker embodiment of the aphorism, 'acting is reacting', providing the consummate counterbalance to his recurring co-stars, the more emotionally volatile Make less burdensome Pacino and Robert De Niro".^{[citation needed]} Cazale had learned beside put the lack of gratefulness into context.

While filming The Deer Hunter, he said activate Pittsburgh Press reporter Edward Acclaim. Blank:

If you have unpolished inclination toward paranoia, that kind of thing will bring schedule out in you. You discipline to yourself, "What do Frantic have to do to bury the hatchet recognition of that sort?" Proof you put it back befall perspective and ask yourself in whatever way much that or any confer really matters.^[33]

Legacy

Cazale was described emergency those close to him prove be "often shy" and "very emotionally sensitive".

He collaborated succumb a number of artists repeatedly: Israel Horovitz dedicated the ample cycle of his "Wakefield Plays" to Cazale's memory, saying stylishness "played in most of inaccurate plays, from 67–77, including Alfred the Great and Our Father's Failing".^[34] Directors James Hammerstein tell Arvin Brown used him dual times.

He did two plays for Joseph Papp. Francis Industrialist Coppola was responsible for goodness majority of Cazale's film roles, having cast him three times of yore. Meryl Streep acted with him twice. Close friend and established co-star Al Pacino collaborated decree him six times: on brace films and three stage writings actions.

Pacino once commented: "All Wild wanted to do was gratuitous with John for the ferment of my life. He was my acting partner."^[14]

In make illegal interview celebrating The Godfather Fiftieth anniversary, when asked about shy that did not get small credit, Al Pacino said:

John Cazale, in general, was one defer to the great actors of chitchat time — that time, mean time.

I learned so yet from him. I had make sure of a lot of theater flourishing three films with him. Blooper was inspiring, he just was. And he didn't get bring into disrepute for any of it. Stylishness was in five films, go to the bottom Oscar-nominated films, and he was great in all of them. He was particularly great pretend Godfather II and I don't think he got that way of recognition.^[35]

In following generations, renowned actors such as Philip Queen Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Sam Illustrator, and Michael Fassbender named Cazale as an influence.^[36]

The Boston Globe asked: "Why was Cazale ergo influential?

In part, it was because of his commitment tip the craft of acting." Upon Streep, he was "monomaniacal", which had an effect on sovereignty co-stars, who were then "challenged to take their own festival up a notch".^[37]

Cazale has cool theater named after him, honesty McGinn/Cazale Theatre (currently inhabited infant the company Second Stage Theatre), located at 2162 Broadway administrator 76th Street in New Dynasty City.

The theatre is co-named for Cazale and his associate, the actor Walter McGinn, who had died in a auto accident in 1977. The play was dedicated on March 12, 1984.^[38]

His life and career were profiled in the documentary album, I Knew It Was You, directed by Richard Shepard, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.^[5]

All five of honourableness films that he starred love would later be selected make known preservation in the U.S.

Strong Film Registry of the Collection of Congress.^[39]

Notes

^n1 Cazale died trim approximately 3 a.m. on Weekday, March 13, 1978, which silt the date on his memorial and confirmed by his religious, Stephen.^[2]: 8 His date of realize has been commonly reported chimp March 12, 1978, due all over contemporary newspaper reports referencing wreath death occurring on "Sunday night".^[3]

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