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Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts.
A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). He gained favorable notice for his first lea…
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Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). His portrayal of Michael Corleone is regarded as one of the greatest in film history. Pacino received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979), ultimately winning it for playing a blind military veteran in Scent of a Woman (1992). For his performances in The Godfather, Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019), he earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations. Other notable portrayals include Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way (1993), Benjamin Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997), and Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999). He has also starred in the thrillers Heat (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Insomnia (2002), and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). On television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each. Pacino currently stars in the Amazon Video web television series Hunters (2020–present). He has also had an extensive career on stage. He is a two-time Tony Award winner, in 1969 and 1977, for his performances in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Pacino made his filmmaking debut with Looking for Richard (1996), directing and starring in this documentary about Richard III; Pacino had played the lead role on stage in 1977. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Pacino directed and starred in Chinese Coffee (2000), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Al Pacino's Filmography
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Father Joe
Maserati: The Brothers
as Vincenzo Vaccaro
Billy Knight
as Billy Knight
In the Hand of Dante
as Uncle Carmine
No Poster
Killing Castro
as Robert Maheu
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
as Self (archive footage)
Dead Man's Wire
as M.L. Hall
Breakdown: 1975
as Sonny Wortzik (archive footage)
Easy's Waltz
The Ritual
as Father Theophilus Riesinger
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness
as Maurice Gangnat
Knox Goes Away
as Xavier Crane
Sly
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Becoming Al Pacino
as Self (archive footage)
House of Gucci
as Aldo Gucci
Val
as Self (archive)
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
as James Laughlin
Making 'The Irishman'
as Self
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
as (archive footage)
No Poster
The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman
as Self
The Irishman: In Conversation
as Self
The Irishman
as Jimmy Hoffa
No Poster
Scarface: 35th Anniversary Reunion
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Marvin Schwarz
Paterno
as Joe Paterno
Hangman
as Detective Archer
The Pirates of Somalia
as Seymour Tolbin
Frank Serpico
as Self (voice)
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
as Self
Misconduct
as Charles Abrams
Manglehorn
as A.J. Manglehorn
Danny Collins
as Danny Collins
The Humbling
as Simon Axler
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Cruising Electric (1980)
as archive
Wilde Salomé
as Self / King Herod
We Are Not Animals
as The Agent
Salomé
as King Herod
Phil Spector
as Phil Spector
Stand Up Guys
as Valentine "Val"
Casting By
as Self
The Godfather Legacy
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Jack and Jill
as Al Pacino
The Son of No One
as Detective Charles Stanford
The 'Scarface' Phenomenon
as Self (archive footage)
You Don't Know Jack
as Dr. Jack Kevorkian
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
Righteous Kill
as Rooster
The History of 'Cruising'
as Self (archive footage)
Exorcising 'Cruising'
as Self (archive footage)
Ocean's Thirteen
as Willy Bank
Brando
as Self
88 Minutes
as Dr. Jack Gramm
The Godfather and the Mob
as Self (archive footage)
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
as Self
Two for the Money
as Walter Abrams
Babbleonia
as Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of Heat
as Self
Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation
as Self
The Merchant of Venice
as Shylock
No Poster
Unseen + Untold: Scarface
The Making of 'Carlito's Way'
as Self (archive footage)
Gigli
as Starkman
The Recruit
as Walter Burke
Inside 'Serpico'
as Self (archive footage)
Serpico: From Real to Reel
as Self (archive footage)
People I Know
as Eli Wurman
S1m0ne
as Viktor Taransky
Insomnia
as Will Dormer
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
Chinese Coffee
as Harry Levine
Any Given Sunday
as Tony D'Amato
The Insider
as Lowell Bergman
No Poster
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
as Self
Internet Love
as Self (uncredited)
The Making of 'Scarface'
as Self
The Devil's Advocate
as John Milton
Pitch
as Self
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
as Self
Donnie Brasco
as Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero
Looking for Richard
as Self / Richard III
City Hall
as Mayor John Pappas
Heat
as Lt. Vincent Hanna
Two Bits
as Gitano Sabatoni
Jonas in the Desert
as Self
Carlito's Way
as Carlito Brigante
Scent of a Woman
as Lt. Col. Frank Slade
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Don Michael Corleone
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Ricky Roma
Frankie and Johnny
as Johnny
Madonna: Truth or Dare
as Self
The Godfather Part III
as Michael Corleone
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
as Self
Dick Tracy
as Big Boy Caprice
Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes
as Self
The Local Stigmatic
as Graham
Sea of Love
as Frank Keller
Revolution
as Tom Dobb
Scarface
as Tony Montana
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Self
Author! Author!
as Ivan Travalian
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
Cruising
as Steve Burns
...And Justice for All
as Arthur Kirkland
Bobby Deerfield
as Bobby
Dog Day Afternoon
as Sonny
The Godfather Part II
as Don Michael Corleone
Serpico
as Officer Frank Serpico
Scarecrow
as Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi
On the Road with: Scarecrow
as Self
The Godfather
as Michael Corleone
The Panic in Needle Park
as Bobby
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
as Self
Me, Natalie
as Tony
No Poster
St. Vincent
No Poster
Sniff
as Harvey Stride
No Poster
Lear Rex
as King Lear
No Poster