Al Pacino Wallpapers

Al Pacino Wallpapers

Al Pacino Wallpapers, Biography, Filmography

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor, regarded by many to be one of the greatest actors of his generation.Pacino was born in the Manhattan area of New York to Italian-American parents Salvatore Pacino (who was born in the Sicilian town of Corleone) and Rose Gerard (the daughter of an Italian-born father and a New York-born mother of Italian descent). His parents divorced while Pacino was two years old. After the divorce, Al and his mother moved to The Bronx, New York to live with his grandparents. His grandparents originated from Corleone, Sicily. His father Salvatore moved to Covina, California, working as an insurance salesman and owner of his own restaurant called Pacino's Lounge. Tough times forced the closure of Pacino's in the early 1990s; it's now called Citrus Grill. Salvatore passed away on January 1, 2005 at the age of 82.In 1966, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg (alongside whom he would later feature in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II), finding acting to be an enjoyable talent that he had posessed since childhood, though it left him penniless and without a home, sleeping on the stage that he performed on. Yet by the end of the decade, he had won an Obie award for his stage work in The Indian Wants the Bronx and a Tony award for Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie? His movie debut came in 1969's Me, Natalie, which went largely unnoticed (except for a boffo performance from Patty Duke). But it was the 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park, in which he played a heroin addict, that would showcase his talents and bring him to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola.
Pacino's rise to fame came after portraying Michael Corleone in Coppola's blockbuster 1972 Mafia film The Godfather and Frank Serpico in the eponymous 1973 movie. Although numerous established actors, including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and a then unknown Robert De Niro, were vying to portray Michael Corleone, Coppola selected the relatively unknown Pacino, much to the dismay of studio executives. His performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1973 Pacino starred in the very successful Serpico and the less popular Scarecrow alongside Gene Hackman. 1974 saw The Godfather Part II. In 1975, Pacino reached the first height of his popularity when Dog Day Afternoon was released. The film was based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz. Other minor works to close out the decade include Bobby Deerfield and ...And Justice for All, which some perceive to be his most underrated performance.

By the end of the 1970s he would have three more Oscar nominations, all for Best Actor.
Pacino's career slumped in the early 1980s and his appearances in the controversial Cruising and the comedy-drama Author! Author! were critically panned. 1983's Scarface later proved to be both a career highlight and a defining role. When the film was first released, it too was hammered critically and became yet another flop at the box office. However, it did earn Pacino a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as a Cuban drug lord who (among other things) cries out the now famous line, punctuated by a grenade launcher blast, "You wanna play rough? Okay! Say hello to my little friend!". (The film was a loose remake of Howard Hawks 1932 original, which starred Paul Muni) It wasn't until almost 20 years later, that Scarface began to find its success when a new generation embraced the film. That newly found recognition, however, had more to do with the film's attitude than with any acknowledgment of cinematic excellence. Nevertheless, the role and film succeeded in elevating Pacino to iconic status, a place of popularity which continues to benefit from the mega marketing blitz of product, from T-Shirts, to action figures, to hip-hop emulations, among plenty of other marketing ploys.

1985's Revolution continued Pacino's string of commercial and critical failures, and he returned to stage work for four years. He mounted workshop productions of Crystal Clear, National Anthems and other plays; appeared in Julius Caesar in 1988 for producer Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; and worked on his most personal project, The Local Stigmatic, a play he had starred in Off Broadway in 1969, then remounted in 1985 with director David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston in order to film a 50-minute movie version unreleased as of 2005.

Pacino remarked on his hiatus from film: "I remember back when everything was happening, '74, '75, doing The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui on stage and reading that the reason I'd gone back to the stage was that my movie career was waning! That's been the kind of ethos, the way in which theater's perceived, unfortunately.
Pacino returned in 1989's Sea of Love.

FILMOGRAPHY
# Torch (2007) (announced)
# Rififi (2007) (pre-production)
# Heat (2007) (VG) (pre-production) (in negotiations) .... Lt. Vincent Hanna
# Ocean's Thirteen (2007) (filming) .... Willie Banks
# 88 Minutes (2007) (completed) .... Jack Gramm

# Two for the Money (2005) .... Walter Abrams
# The Merchant of Venice (2004) .... Shylock
... aka Mercante di Venezia, Il (Italy)
... aka William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (USA: complete title)
# "Angels in America" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... Roy Cohn
# Gigli (2003) .... Starkman
# The Recruit (2003) .... Walter Burke
# People I Know (2002) .... Eli Wurman
... aka Im inneren Kreis (Germany)
... aka Innere Kreis, Der (Germany: video title)
# S1m0ne (2002) .... Viktor Taransky
# Insomnia (2002/I) .... Detective Will Dormer
# Chinese Coffee (2000) .... Harry Levine

# Any Given Sunday (1999) .... Tony D'Amato
# The Insider (1999) .... Lowell Bergman
# The Devil's Advocate (1997) .... John Milton
... aka Devil's Advocate (USA: DVD box title)
... aka Im Auftrag des Teufels (Germany)
# Donnie Brasco (1997) .... Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero
# City Hall (1996) .... Mayor John Pappas
# Heat (1995) .... Lt. Vincent Hanna
# Two Bits (1995) .... Gitano Sabatoni
... aka A Day to Remember
# Carlito's Way (1993) .... Carlito 'Charlie' Brigante
# Scent of a Woman (1992) .... Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
# Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) .... Ricky Roma
# The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (V) .... Don Michael Corleone
... aka The Godfather Saga (USA)
... aka The Godfather Trilogy
# Frankie and Johnny (1991) .... Johnny
... aka Frankie & Johnny (USA: poster title)
# The Godfather: Part III (1990) .... Don Michael Corleone
... aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part III (USA: complete title)
# Dick Tracy (1990) .... Big Boy Caprice
# The Local Stigmatic (1990) .... Graham

# Sea of Love (1989) .... Det. Frank Keller
# Revolution (1985) .... Tom Dobb
# Scarface (1983) .... Tony Montana
# Author! Author! (1982) .... Ivan Travalian
# Cruising (1980) .... Steve Burns
... aka William Friedkin's Cruising (USA: closing credits title)

# ...And Justice for All (1979) .... Arthur Kirkland
# "The Godfather Saga" (1977) (mini) TV Series .... Don Michael Corleone
# Bobby Deerfield (1977) .... Bobby Deerfield
... aka Heaven Has No Favorites (Australia)
# Dog Day Afternoon (1975) .... Sonny
# The Godfather: Part II (1974) .... Don Michael Corleone
... aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part II (USA: complete title)
# Serpico (1973) .... Officer Frank Serpico
# Scarecrow (1973) .... Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi
# The Godfather (1972) .... Michael Corleone
... aka Mario Puzo's The Godfather (USA: complete title)
# The Panic in Needle Park (1971) .... Bobby

# Out of It (1969) .... Ray
# Me, Natalie (1969) .... Tony
# "N.Y.P.D."
- Deadly Circle of Violence (1968) TV Episode .... John James

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