Al Pacino Trivia
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Al Pacino was born on 25 Apr 1940 in East Harlem, New York City, USA.
Pacino grew up in the South Bronx, New York City.
He has a production company called Chal Productions. The "Ch" is in tribute Charles Laughton while the "Al" is for himself.
Stopped a 2-pack-a-day smoking habit in 1994 to protect his voice. He now only occasionally smokes herbal cigarettes.
Pacino arrested in Rhode Island for carrying a concealed weapon. Pacino, aged 21 and living in New York City, stayed in jail for three days. The three occupants of the car at the time were all wearing black masks and gloves, and had been seen by police circling in their vehicle in a suspicious manner (7 Jan 1961).
Family:
His grandparents originate from Corleone, Sicily.
His father is insurance agent Salvatore Pacino, mother Rose Pacino (she died when Al Pacino was 22).
Pacino has four sisters: Josette (teacher), twins Roberta and Paula, and a younger sister named Desiree.
He has never married.
Father of Julie Marie (with acting teacher Jan Tarrant), twins Anton and Olivia (b. 25 January 2001), with Beverly D'Angelo.
Education:
Pacino dropped out of school at the age of 17, studied acting under Charles Laughton. Attended The High School of the Performing Arts until he dropped out.
Favorites:
Favorite actress is Julie Christie, favorite color is black.
Fan for Shakespeare, opera.
Ranking, Nominations, Awards:
Won his first Oscar twenty-one years after his first nomination.
He was nominated as for The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974). The others are Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986), Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Peter O'Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968).
Won two Tony Awards: in 1969 as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" and in 1977 as Best. Actor (Play) for "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel."
Ranked #4 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
He was voted the 41st Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
He was voted the 37th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.
His performance as Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part II (1974) is ranked #20 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon (1975) is ranked #4 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Was voted the Number 1 greatest movie star of all time in a Channel 4 (UK) poll.
His performance in the Broadway play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" won him a Tony Award for Best Dramatic Supporting Actor, and a Drama Desk Award and Theatre World Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1969.
In 2004 he became the eighteenth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting. Oscar: Best Actor, Scent of a Woman (1992); Tonys: Best Supporting Actor-Play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?: (1969) and Best Actor-Play "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" (1977); and Emmy: Best Actor-Miniseries/Movie, "Angels in America" (2003) (mini).
He and Jamie Foxx are two out of the only three actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year. (Barry Fitzgerald did it first in 1945) Pacino was nominated in 1993 for Scent of a Woman (1992) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) / Foxx in 2005 for Ray (2004/I) and Collateral (2004). Both men won the Best Actor award, and they both played blind men in their roles: Pacino as Frank Slade and Foxx as Ray Charles.
Won the Best Actor Obie (awarded for the best Off-Broadway performances) for "The Indian Wants The Bronx" in 1968. Was also nominated for a Best Actor Obie for "Why Is A Crooked Letter" in 1966.
Turned down:
Marathon Man (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Apocalypse Now (1979), the role of Han Solo in Star Wars (1977), Pretty Woman (1990), Crimson Tide (1995).
Notables:
Was frequently refered to as "that midget Pacino" by producers of The Godfather (1972) who didn't want him for the part of Michael Corleone.
Francis Ford Coppola asked Pacino to play Captain Willard in his film Apocalypse Now (1979). Pacino politely turned down the offer, saying he'd "do anything" for Francis but he "woudn't go to war with him!"
Al was so much into character (playing a plain-clothes NYC cop) while filming Serpico (1973) he actually pulled over and threatened to arrest a truck driver for exhaust pollution.
Larry King considers Pacino's appearance on his show "Larry King Live" (1985) in November 1996 as one of his personal all-time favorite interviews.
He is one of the elite ten thespians to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year. The other nine are Barry Fitzgerald Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore and Jamie Foxx.
Read for Chazz Palminteri's part in The Usual Suspects (1995)
He and Chris Sarandon improvised their scene on the phone in the film Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
Portrayed crime bosses in The Godfather Trilogy, Scarface (1983) and Dick Tracy (1990).
Worked in the mail room of Commentary magazine.
He was rejected repeatedly by studio heads while auditioning for the role of Michael in The Godfather (1972) but Francis Ford Coppola fought for him. This film was shot briskly because both the director and the leading actor were in constant fear of being fired. Ironically, the film turned out to be a breakthrough for both.
Alec Baldwin, who costarred with Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and Looking for Richard (1996), wrote a 65 page final thesis on Al Pacino and method acting for his degree at NYU.
Was friends with John Cazale since they were teenagers. They starred together in Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and The Godfather (1972)
Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor Awards back-to-back. Both of them won for playing characters that had previously been played by other actors (Vittorio Gassman and Brian Cox, respectively). They also both played their roles opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman, who appears in both Scent of a Woman (1992) and Red Dragon (2002). He and Hopkins have also both appeared in remake of a Michael Mann film. Hopkins appeared in the Manhunter (1986) remake Red Dragon (2002), and Pacino appeared in the L.A. Takedown (1989) (TV) remake, Heat (1995).
During the making of The Recruit (2003), he met and became close friends with Colin Farrell. He went on to call Farrell the most talented actor of his generation.
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