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John Cazale (1935-1978) was an American actor. Cazale’s only made 5 movies in 7 years, but those 5 movies are all classics. His IMDb page shows 8 acting credits from 1962 to 1978. This page will rank John Cazale movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
John Cazale Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
John Cazale Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
- Sort John Cazale movies by his co-stars
- Sort John Cazale movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort John Cazale movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort John Cazale movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each John Cazale movie received.
- Sort John Cazale movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
John Cazale Adjusted WorldWide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About John Cazale
John Holland Cazale was born in Revere, Massachusetts.
John Cazale was a cab driver before his acting career gained traction. He also worked as a messenger at Standard Oil, where he met Al Pacino.
John Cazale appeared in only five feature films in his career, and all of them were nominated for Best Picture. *This is one of my all-time favorite pieces of movie trivia.
John Cazale won his part as Fredo Corleone in The Godfather (1972) after being seen in the play ‘Line’ by producer of the film, Albert S. Ruddy, who was invited to see the play by Cazale’s co-star Richard Dreyfuss.
All five of John Cazale’s movies were selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.
Many actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, and Michael Fassbender have all named John Cazale as a major influence
John Cazale was dying of cancer while filming The Deer Hunter (1978) and ultimately passed before the film actually premiered. Was in a relationship with Meryl Streep at the time of his death.
Check out John Cazale’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
I have seen all 5 of his films.
Hey Dan. I bet almost all movie buffs have seen all five of his movies. The Conversation is the one that most people probably missed….but the others are bona fid classics. Not sure anybody will only have 5 movies and all 5 of those movies being nominated for Best Picture.