Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations. He made his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the leading role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor were for Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross. Oscar nominations for Best Actor include The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, the court room drama ...And Justice for All and Scent of a Woman. In addition to a career in film, he has also enjoyed a successful career on stage, picking up Tony Awards for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. His love of Shakespeare led him to direct his first film with Looking for Richard, a part documentary on the play Richard III. Pacino has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, including one from the American Film Institute. He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charlie Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York. Although he has never married, Pacino has had several relationships with actresses and has three children.
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Movie | In the Hand of Dante | 2025 | |
Movie | Knox Goes Away | 2024-03-15 | |
Movie | Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight | Self (archive footage) | 2023-08-14 |
Movie | Sly | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2023-09-16 |
Movie | Brad Pitt: More Than a Pretty Face | Self (archive footage) | 2022-10-09 |
Movie | Becoming Al Pacino | Self | 2022-02-06 |
Movie | Val | Self (archive footage) | 2021-07-23 |
Movie | House of Gucci | Aldo Gucci | 2021-11-24 |
Movie | American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally | James Laughlin | 2021-05-28 |
Movie | The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman | Self | 2020-01-15 |
Series | Hunters | Meyer Offerman | 2020-02-20 |
Movie | Making 'The Irishman' | Self | 2020-11-24 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | Marvin Schwarz | 2019-07-24 |
Movie | The Irishman | Jimmy Hoffa | 2019-11-01 |
Movie | The Irishman: In Conversation | Self | 2019-11-27 |
Movie | Paterno | Joe Paterno | 2018-04-07 |
Movie | Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Self | 2017-05-05 |
Movie | Frank Serpico | Self (voice) | 2017-11-01 |
Movie | Hangman | Detective Archer | 2017-12-22 |
Movie | The Pirates of Somalia | Seymour Tolbin | 2017-12-08 |
Movie | Misconduct | Charles Abrams | 2016-02-05 |
Movie | Manglehorn | A.J. Manglehorn | 2015-06-03 |
Movie | Danny Collins | Danny Collins | 2015-03-19 |
Movie | The Humbling | Simon Axler | 2014-12-31 |
Movie | Cruising Electric (1980) | archive | 2014-01-17 |
Movie | Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-09-20 |
Movie | Phil Spector | Phil Spector | 2013-03-24 |
Movie | We're No Animals | The Agent | 2013-10-03 |
Movie | Salomé | King Herod | 2013-08-10 |
Movie | Wilde Salomé | Self / King Herod | 2013-12-20 |
Movie | Stand Up Guys | Valentine "Val" | 2012-12-14 |
Movie | The Godfather Legacy | Self | 2012-07-12 |
Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
Movie | The 'Scarface' Phenomenon | Self (archive footage) | 2011-09-06 |
Movie | Jack and Jill | Al Pacino | 2011-11-11 |
Movie | The Son of No One | Detective Charles Stanford | 2011-11-04 |
Movie | You Don't Know Jack | Dr. Jack Kevorkian | 2010-04-14 |
Movie | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009-01-16 |
Movie | Righteous Kill | Detective Dave 'Rooster' Fisk | 2008-09-11 |
Movie | 88 Minutes | Jack Gramm | 2007-02-14 |
Movie | Exorcising 'Cruising' | Self (archive footage) | 2007-09-18 |
Movie | Brando | Self | 2007-05-01 |
Movie | Ocean's Thirteen | Willy Bank | 2007-06-05 |
Movie | The History of 'Cruising' | Self (archive footage) | 2007-09-18 |
Movie | The Godfather and the Mob | Self (archive footage) | 2006-04-25 |
Movie | Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation | Self | 2005-02-22 |
Movie | The Making of 'Heat' | Self | 2005-02-22 |
Movie | Two for the Money | Walter Abrams | 2005-10-07 |
Movie | Babbleonia | Himself | 2005-07-12 |
Movie | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | 2004-12-03 |
Movie | The Recruit | Walter Burke | 2003-01-31 |
Movie | Gigli | Starkman | 2003-08-01 |
Series | Celebrities Uncensored | Unknown | 2003-06-04 |
Series | Angels in America | Roy Cohn | 2003-12-07 |
Movie | The Making of 'Carlito's Way' | Self (archive footage) | 2003-09-02 |
Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Tony Montana (Scarface) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
Movie | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Self (archive footage) | 2002-08-16 |
Movie | People I Know | Eli Wurman | 2002-11-21 |
Movie | S1m0ne | Viktor Taransky | 2002-08-23 |
Movie | Insomnia | Will Dormer | 2002-05-24 |
Movie | America: A Tribute to Heroes | Self | 2001-09-21 |
Movie | Chinese Coffee | Harry Levine | 2000-09-02 |
Movie | Any Given Sunday | Tony D'Amato | 1999-12-22 |
Movie | The Insider | Lowell Bergman | 1999-10-28 |
Movie | The Making of 'Scarface' | Self | 1998-03-31 |
Movie | Pitch | Himself | 1997-09-04 |
Movie | Donnie Brasco | Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero | 1997-02-27 |
Movie | The Devil's Advocate | John Milton | 1997-10-17 |
Movie | Looking for Richard | Self / Richard III | 1996-10-11 |
Movie | City Hall | Mayor John Pappas | 1996-02-16 |
Movie | Heat | Lt. Vincent Hanna | 1995-12-15 |
Movie | Two Bits | Gitano Sabatoni | 1995-10-22 |
Movie | Jonas in the Desert | Himself | 1994-01-01 |
Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
Series | Late Show with David Letterman | Himself | 1993-08-30 |
Movie | Carlito's Way | Carlito Brigante | 1993-11-10 |
Movie | Glengarry Glen Ross | Ricky Roma | 1992-09-15 |
Movie | Scent of a Woman | Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade | 1992-12-23 |
Movie | Madonna: Truth or Dare | Self | 1991-05-10 |
Movie | Frankie and Johnny | Johnny | 1991-10-11 |
Movie | 'The Godfather' Family: A Look Inside | Self | 1990-07-12 |
Movie | The Local Stigmatic | Graham | 1990-03-01 |
Movie | Dick Tracy | Big Boy Caprice | 1990-04-05 |
Movie | The Godfather Part III | Michael Corleone | 1990-12-25 |
Movie | Sea of Love | Frank Keller | 1989-09-15 |
Movie | Revolution | Tom Dobb | 1985-12-25 |
Movie | Scarface | Antonio 'Tony' Montana | 1983-12-09 |
Movie | Author! Author! | Ivan Travalian | 1982-06-18 |
Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
Movie | The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic | Michael Corleone | 1981-03-24 |
Movie | Cruising | Steve Burns | 1980-02-15 |
Movie | ...And Justice for All | Arthur Kirkland | 1979-10-19 |
Movie | Bobby Deerfield | Bobby | 1977-09-29 |
Series | Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television | Don Michael Corleone | 1977-11-12 |
Movie | Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik | 1975-09-21 |
Movie | The Godfather Part II | Don Michael Corleone | 1974-12-20 |
Movie | Scarecrow | Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi | 1973-04-11 |
Movie | Serpico | Officer Frank Serpico | 1973-12-18 |
Movie | The Godfather | Michael Corleone | 1972-03-14 |
Movie | The Panic in Needle Park | Bobby | 1971-06-01 |
Movie | Me, Natalie | Tony | 1969-07-13 |
Series | N.Y.P.D. | John James | 1967-09-05 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Series | The Emmy Awards | Unknown | 1949-01-25 |