Biography
Born 25 april 1940 in New York VS
Little Alfredo Pacino was a rather sensitive child, and his overprotective grandparents cherished and coddled him to such a degree that he wasn't even allowed out of the house until he had safely passed his seventh birthday. He got to tag along with his mother to evening features at the local movie theatre, but his days were spent housebound
with nothing better to do than reenact for his grandmother the plots of the films he had seen.
At fourteen, Pacino attended a performance of Chekhov's The Seagull at Elsmere Theater in the South Bronx, whereupon he decided to transfer to the High School of the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, English seemed to be the only subject he wasn't continually
flunking at the renowned school, and so at the age of seventeen, it took little deliberation for Pacino to decide to throw in the academic towel once and for all. Pacino began taking acting classes and appearing in basement-staged plays of little repute. Later on he eventually gained acceptance to the famed Actors Studio in 1966, where he received further training in Lee Strasberg's school of Method acting. Pacino scored his first Tony Award on Broadway in the play Does
the Tiger Wear a Necktie. In 1977 Pacino won his second Tony in the production The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.
Pacino's first two features, Me, Natalie and The Panic in Needle Park, recycled his proven virtuosity in the role of junkie. In preparation for the latter film, Pacino and Panic co-star Kitty Winn schooled
themselves in the mannerisms of heroin addicts by doing extensive research in and around various methadone treatment centers and drug-pusher haunts. On the basis of his gut-wrenching performance in the film, Pacino was offered the role of Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, a plum assignment plucked handily away from the likes of Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty.
He followed up quickly with forceful performances, in Serpico, The Godfather, Part II, and Dog Day Afternoon. In 1995 he acted together
with Robert de Niro in Heat. Although the two giants played both Don Corleone in The Godfather II, they never appeared in the same scene, Heat changed that.In 1997 he returned as his stock-in-trade urban crime figure in Donnie Brasco, and portrayed a Mephistophelean lawyer in Devil's Advocate (1997). In 1999 he did The Insider, which tells the story of an investigative reporting into
the American tobacco industry; and headlined Oliver Stone's gridiron drama Any Given Sunday. Pacino still performs theatre work and has also dabbled in direction; Looking for Richard and Chinese Coffee are both highly acclaimed.
Facts
Films
- Merchant of Venice, The (2004) .... Shylock
- Angels in America (2003) TV .... Roy Cohn
- Gigli (2003) .... Starkman
- Recruit, The (2003) .... Walter Burke
- Simone (2002) .... Viktor Taransky
- People I Know (2002) .... Eli Wurman
- Insomnia (2002) .... Will Dormer
- Chinese Coffee (2000) .... Harry Levine
- Any Given Sunday (1999) .... Tony D'Amato
- Iinsider , The (1999) .... Lowell Bergman
- Chinese Coffee (1999) .... Harry
- Devil's Advocate, The (1997) .... John Milton
... andere titel: Diabolos (1998) - Donnie Brasco (1997) .... Lefty Ruggiero
- Looking for Richard (1996) .... Richard III
- City Hall (1996) .... Mayor John Pappas
- Heat (1995) .... Vincent Hanna
- Two Bits (1995) .... Gitano Sabatoni
... andere titel: Day to Remember, A (1995) - Carlito's Way (1993) .... Carlito Brigante
- Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) .... Ricky Roma
- Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, The (1992) (V) .... Michael Corleone
... andere titel: Godfather Trilogy, The (1992) (V) - Scent of a Woman (1992) .... Lt. Col. Frank Slade
- Frankie and Johnny (1991) .... Johnny
- Godfather Family: A Look Inside, The (1991) (TV)
- The Godfather: Part III (1990) .... Don Michael Corleone
... andere titel: Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III (1990) - Dick Tracy (1990) .... Big Boy Caprice
- Sea of Love (1989) .... Frank Keller
- Local Stigmatic, The (1989)
- Revolution (1985) .... Tom Dobb
- Scarface (1983) .... Tony Montana
- Author! Author! (1982) .... Ivan Travalian
- Cruising (1980) .... Steve Burns
- ...And Justice for All (1979) .... Arthur Kirkland
- Bobby Deerfield (1977) .... Bobby Deerfield
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) .... Sonny Wortzik
- The Godfather: Part II (1974) .... Don Michael Corleone
... andere titel: Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part II (1974) - Scarecrow (1973/I) .... Lion
- Serpico (1973) .... Frank Serpico
- The Godfather (1972) .... Michael Corleone
... andere titel: Mario Puzo's The Godfather (1972) - Panic in Needle Park, The (1971) .... Bobby
Me, Natalie (1969) .... Tony
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