Biographic - Sunday October 20, 2019 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Alfredo James Pachino was born in New York City on April 25, 1094. He worked a number of menial jobs to finance his drama studies and eventually became an acclaimed, award-winning stage actor. His second movie, 1971's "The Panic In Needle Park" convinced director Francis Ford Coppola to cast him as Michael Corleone in the 1972 blockbuster "The Godfather." The movie earned Pacino Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and launched him to stardom. He went on to make some of the most acclaimed films of the '70s including, the cop drama "Serpico" "The Godfather Part II" "Dog Day Afternoon" and "...And Justice For All." He created one of the screen's most memorable gangsters, drug kingpin Tony Montana in 1983's "Scarface" and later portrayed one of it's most cartoonish, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in 1990s "Dick Tracy," a screen adaptation of the comic strip that earned Pacino his sixth academy award nomination. He became the first male actor to receive two academy award acting nominations for two different movies in the same year, with 1992's "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Scent Of A Woman" winning the best actor Oscar for the latter. He went on to make such movies as "Carlito's Way" "Donnie Brasco" "The Devil's Advocate" and "Any Given Sunday" and he revisited his "Michael Corleone role in "The Godfather Part III" His forays into TV included "Angels In America" and "You Don't Know Jack'" which each earned him Golden Globe and Emmy awards- "Phil Spector" which brought further awards acclaim, and 2018's "Paterno." 2015's "Danny Collins" brought him his 17th Golden Globe nomination. Following his role in Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" earlier this year, he has teamed up with Robert De Niro once more for "The Irishman" in which Pacino plays Jimmy Hoffa. A recipient of the national medal of arts, Pacino received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2016.

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