Al Pacino

Acting · 5.4 popularity

Age

Movies

122

Born: April 25, 1940
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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

Works

122 films

The Godfather

19728.7

The Godfather Part II

19748.6

Scarface

19838.2

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

20197.4

Heat

19957.9

The Godfather Part III

19907.4

The Devil's Advocate

19977.5

Scent of a Woman

19927.8

The Irishman

20197.6

Ocean's Thirteen

20076.7

Insomnia

20027.0

The Ritual

20255.9

Donnie Brasco

19977.5

The Insider

19997.5

House of Gucci

20216.6

Dead Man's Wire

20266.5

Jack and Jill

20114.4

Dick Tracy

19906.2

Dog Day Afternoon

19757.9

Carlito's Way

19937.8

Any Given Sunday

19996.8

Sea of Love

19896.6

The Recruit

20036.4

88 Minutes

20075.8

In the Hand of Dante

20265.5

Righteous Kill

20085.9

Glengarry Glen Ross

19927.3

Danny Collins

20156.7

Stand Up Guys

20126.0

Cruising

19806.6

The Merchant of Venice

20046.8

Serpico

19737.5

Two for the Money

20056.1

The Panic in Needle Park

19716.8

City Hall

19966.0

Knox Goes Away

20247.0

Heat 2

2026

Frankie and Johnny

19916.8

Sly

20237.2

Misconduct

20165.6

S1m0ne

20026.0

Madonna: Truth or Dare

19916.2

Hangman

20175.8

...And Justice for All

19797.1

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Looking for Richard

19966.8

Revolution

19855.4

The Pirates of Somalia

20176.8

Scarecrow

19737.0

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

19928.9

Gigli

20034.0

Breakdown: 1975

20256.8

People I Know

20025.2

Author! Author!

19825.9

The Son of No One

20115.1

American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally

20215.5

Maserati: The Brothers

2026

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

19907.8

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

20169.0

The Humbling

20145.1

You Don't Know Jack

20107.0

Salomé

20136.2

Manglehorn

20155.4

Frank Serpico

20175.9

Me, Natalie

19695.6

Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness

20246.2

Father Joe

2026

Two Bits

19955.7

The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

202010.0

Paterno

20186.2

Billy Knight

2026

Phil Spector

20135.7

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Bobby Deerfield

19775.8

The Irishman: In Conversation

20197.5

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

20177.3

James Bond: The First 21 Years

19836.7

The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

20117.0

Cruising Electric (1980)

2014

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

20096.9

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

1971

Assassination

2026

Becoming Al Pacino

20227.5

Brando

20076.8

Easy's Waltz

20252.0

Jonas in the Desert

19946.4

Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders

2026

St. Vincent

2026

Casting By

20126.9

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

20147.2

The Godfather and the Mob

20067.0

Wilde Salomé

20136.2

The Making of 'Scarface'

19988.0

The Godfather Legacy

20127.2

The History of 'Cruising'

20077.7

Chinese Coffee

20006.7

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

19995.9

Making 'The Irishman'

20207.0

Inside 'Serpico'

20028.0

The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

20067.8

Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes

19907.0

Sniff

2026

Lear Rex

2026

The Making of 'Heat'

20056.3

The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

20036.0

Killing Castro

202610.0

The Local Stigmatic

19905.1

Exorcising 'Cruising'

20076.5

The Collaboration of a Lifetime: Scorsese's Epic The Irishman

20207.0

Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star

20206.4

Captivated

2026

We're No Animals

20134.3

Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation

20056.0

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

1997

Serpico: From Real to Reel

20028.0

Internet Love

199810.0

Pitch

19976.5

Babbleonia

20057.0

On the Road with: Scarecrow

19737.0