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Known for:	The Godfather: Part II, The Deer Hunter, The Godfather
Birthday:	12 August 1935, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Height:	5' 11½" (1.82 m)

Once engaged to Meryl Streep Was dying of cancer while filming The Deer Hunter Cazale appeared in only five feature films in his career, and all of them were nominated for Best Picture. Studied drama at Oberlin College and Boston University. Played characters in two movies named Stan (The Deer Hunter, and The Conversation). Italian-American. Years after his death he appeared in a sixth feature film, The Godfather: Part III in archive footage. The Godfather: Part III was also nominated for Best Picture. Was friends with Al Pacino when he was a teenager. In spite of the desperate, violent characters he played in a handful of films, he was by all accounts an enormously kind and gentle person off screen, having been a close personal friend of most of the actors he had worked with. Among his greatest achievements was that he helped the discovery of childhood friend Al Pacino, fellow, hungry theater actor Robert De Niro, and his fiancée at the time of his early death, Meryl Streep. Has a theater named after him, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, located at 2162 Broadway at 76th Street, above the Promenade Theatre on the fourth floor. The theater sits from 99 to 108 people. Cited as a "Distinguished Performance" by the Off-Broadway Obie Awards for the 1967-68 season for his performance in Israel Horovitz's play "The Indian Wants the Bronx". Close friend and frequent co-star, Al Pacino, referred to Cazale as his "acting partner", the guy he could've acted with his entire life. Three of the five feature-length movies he made also starred Al Pacino: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II and Dog Day Afternoon

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