is john cazale the only actor whose….
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ddyfad — 19 years ago(August 02, 2006 05:58 AM)
Even aside from the success of his films, the number of great performances he gave (five) divided by the number of films he made (five) gives a perfect one - which could be said to make him the most consistently great film actor ever!
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ddyfad — 19 years ago(August 12, 2006 09:27 AM)
I didn't really know anything about him as a person. I'm glad to learn that he was one of the good guys offscreen! The award renaming would be a lovely gesture that I'm sure would be popular with a lot of actors. If enough people backed the suggestion, who knows?
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mightyman — 19 years ago(March 03, 2007 04:07 PM)
I love john cazale, so don't take this the wrong way. Three best pic noms in two years was beaten by John C. Reilly for Chicago, the Hours, and Gangs of New York. All nominated the same year. None as good as any of Cazale's films however.
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ceth26 — 18 years ago(June 22, 2007 02:09 PM)
I 111csuppose it is, if you put it that way
But consider this: Put Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather II and The Conversation up against The Hours, Gangs of New York and Chicago Also, it is debatable whether those latter three should have been nominated for Best Picture at all (esp. Chicago).
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juanbarros_88 — 18 years ago(February 22, 2008 09:05 PM)
look being in good movies doesnt make you a good actor, not necessarily.Im not saying Cazale was a bad actor, I just want to make that clear..
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BleekersPorkSword — 19 years ago(August 12, 2006 07:42 AM)
I agree a lifetime award would really be great all of his performances are terrific and maybe more people would see them if they honored himsomeone should anywayhe was probably a real nice guy unlike alot of actors
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GuruAskew — 19 years ago(September 27, 2006 06:56 PM)
I concur that there's gotta be other people with that can make this claim but they've gotta be people who played like "man #2" and "passerby #3" in several movies as opposed to having major supporting roles in all of them like Cazale.
The only way you could know for sure is if there was some sort of program that could scour IMDB for such a filmography but until then you can only really say that Cazale is the only known actor with this distinction. -
rob_arnott — 19 years ago(September 30, 2006 01:29 PM)
I think Cazale must have one of the best good movie ratiosever.
Having seen all his films, it's obvious he's a good actor but you have to admit that he was a perennial supporting actor and more of a foil to the main guys.
However, I thought he was excellent in Dog Day Afternoon and showed he could've taken on bigger roles if his life hadn't been cut so short.
