James Caan, known for his roles in “The Godfather” and “Elf,” has died.
in 1991 about his personal battles with depression and cocaine.
The depression came after his sister, Barbara, died at the age of 38 following a long fight with leukemia.“First you have peer pressure,” Caan told the Times. “You have parties. I was single. There were girls. That was the way to get girls. “I went through it, but not to the degree you’ve heard about. I wish I had done half the things people said I did.”said he had “virtually disappeared from the screen” after the 1980′s but his career had a resurgence, thanks to “Misery” putting him on the same level as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall.
While he wasn’t making movies for nearly a decade, Caan told the Times that he coached his son’s soccer and basketball teams during the day and dated Playboy bunnies at night. He became reclusive until friends Francis Ford Coppola, Rob Reiner and Mark Rydell saved him and his career.
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