Prominent Character: AL PACINO

"Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer"

I want to specially dedicate todays post to an icon of the American cinema of the 70s, even though there have been lots of exceptional actors during the decades of the 60s&70s, this actor called Alfredo James Pacino, who’s most commonly known as Al Pacino, stands out for his strenght, aim of overcoming difficulties and perfect actuation. Born in April 25, 1940, he’s nowadays not only a really well-known actor but also a filmmaker. His fame came in the 1972 with the premier of the film “The godfather” when he was 32 years old, but his career as an actor and passion towards acting came earlier, when he only was a teenager. At the age of 17 he left school willing to start his studies at the Actors Studio (where he wouldn't enter at first, but would years after). He had a really difficult life, Alfredo’s character was really though and difficult to support, what made people see him as a mysterious person and a troublemaker, very important people for him passed away when he was really young, so he entered in drugs life when he was only 13.

Video of Al Pacino's early life, it describes perfectly the hard times of Alfredo when he was only a child. Source: Youtube

In 1967 he shot his first movie Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!, which was not financially rewarded, but which he found really worth it to start in the medium. Pacino debuted in broadway in 1969, with the film Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? for which he won his first Tony Award. In 1971 he met director Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him as Michael Corleone in the blockbuster Mafia film The Godfather. Pacino's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination. 

Al Pacino when he won his First Tony award with Barry Bostwick, Dorothy Loudon. Source:dorothyloudonfoundation.org

Al Pacino on a frame of "The Godfather" starring his character Michael Corleone. Source: www.moviecitizens.com 

From those years till nowadays Al Pacino hasn’t stopped, he had shot more than 40 films, and had received 10 awards from 33 nominations. He is considered one of the most important interpreters of the history of american cinema, and he stills aim to remain active, as he said last August in Venice to the newspaper “El Universal” . He’s 74 years old, nevertheless has the necessary "appetite" to keep on doing movies. "My plane has not landed yet” he assured. 

Actual pictures of Al Pacino last August in Venice. Source: www.ctvnews.ca