* In the 1993 crime film Carlito's Way the character Carlito Brigante ( Al Pacino ) is being told by a police inspector inside District Attorney Norwalk's ( James Rebhorn ) office that his Jewish lawyer and friend Dave Kleinfeld ( Sean Penn ) tried to set him up.

Al Pacino was Mann ’ s only choice to play Lowell Bergman.

Pacino, who had worked with Mann previously in Heat, was more than willing to take on the role.

To research for the film, Mann and Pacino hung out with reporters from Time magazine, spent time with ABC News and Pacino actually met Bergman to help get in character.

Pacino suggested Mann to cast Christopher Plummer in the role of Mike Wallace.

* Heat ( 1995 ) Michael Mann action / drama film with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro

The film stars Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, with Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora, Michael Gambon, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse, Gina Gershon, Debi Mazar, and Colm Feore in supporting roles.

Pacino had seen the veteran actor on the stage many times and was a big fan of Plummer ’ s work.

The agency ’ s acting clients include Academy Award winners Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, William Hurt, Susan Sarandon, and Christopher Walken, as well as Mickey Rourke, Frank Langella, Hailee Steinfeld, David Strathairn, Abigail Breslin, Laura Linney, Samuel L. Jackson, Megan Fox, Michael Cera, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Monaghan, Lesley Manville, Jacki Weaver, Seann William Scott, America Ferrera, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emmy Rossum, and Christina Ricci.

Luminaries such as Lenny Bruce, Mary Martin, Katharine Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Richard Taylor, Ian McKellen, Florence Henderson, Angela Lansbury, Mae West, Dorothy Loudon, Richard Kiley, Sally Ann Howe, Keene Curtis, Victor Garber, Laurence Luckinbill, Lucie Arnaz, Patti LaBelle, Rob Marshall, Georgia Brown, Ben Harney, The Smothers Brothers, Jane Connell, Ricardo Montalban, Werner Klemperer, Ethel Waters, Jean Fenn, Agnes Moorehead, Herb Edelman, Matthew Broderick, Joyce Van Patten, Elizabeth Franz, Jonathan Silverman, Zeljko Ivanek, Marcel Marceau, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Joel Grey, Florence Lacey, Ron Holgate, Lee Roy Reams, Paxton Whitehead, Ann Jillian, Leslie Uggams, Andrea McArdle, Mary Alice, Jack Lemmon, Estelle Parsons, Stacey Keach, Maxwell Caulfield, James Earl Jones, Karen Valentine, Brian Dennehy, Al Pacino, Amanda Plummer, Elizabeth Ashley, Mercedes McCambridge, Stockard Channing, Judith Light and many other stars have played at the Curran.

" Contemporary directors like Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors such as Al Pacino, a former student skilled in " Method ".

Abraham can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico ( 1973 ), also as the bad guy in one 3rd Season episode of Kojak, he played a cab driver in the theatrical version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 1975 ), a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys ( 1975 ) and in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), as one of the police officers who arrests the Watergate burglars in the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters.

It was adapted for the screenplay of the 1973 film titled Serpico, which was directed by Sidney Lumet and starred Al Pacino in the title role.

His two-channel video The Third Memory ( 1999 ), first exhibited in a museum context at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Renaissance Society in Chicago, takes as its starting point Sidney Lumet's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino in the role of the bank robber John Wojtowicz.

A film documentary and tribute about Cazale, titled I Knew It Was You, was an entry at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and featured interviews with Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Francis Ford Coppola and Sidney Lumet.

Cazale again starred alongside Pacino in Sidney Lumet's 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.

In 1980, Greaves was honored alongside Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando, Arthur Penn, Sally Field, Rod Steiger, Al Pacino, Shelley Winters, Dustin Hoffman, Estelle Parsons, and Ellen Burstyn with the The Actors Studio in New York ’ s first ever Dusa Award.

de: Al Pacino ’ s Looking for Richard

Brightlight recently produced its sequel, White Noise 2: The Light, starring Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhoff with Gold Circle Films ; In the Name of the King, starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds and John Rhys-Davies ; 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino and Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage both for Nu Image / Millennium Films and Emmett Furla Films as well as the TV series Saved for TNT with Fox 21, Slither ; Postal, based on the video game of the same name and American Venus, directed by Bruce Sweeney and starring Rebecca De Mornay ; which recently screened at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, along with the psychological thriller They Wait, starring Sin City ’ s Jaime King and directed by Ernie Barbarash.

The main storyline, following the events of the first film, centers on Michael Corleone ( Pacino ), the new Don of the Corleone crime family, trying to hold his business ventures together from 1958 to 1959 ; the other is a series of flashbacks following his father, Vito Corleone ( De Niro ), from his childhood in Sicily in 1901 to his founding of the Corleone family in New York City.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

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.

Pacino was born in East Harlem, New York City to Italian American parents Salvatore Pacino and Rose, who divorced when he was two years old.

According to the featurettes Pacino, DeNiro and the Conversation and The Making of Heat: True Crime, included in the special edition DVD, which includes a taped interview with Adamson, the scene of McCauley and Hanna in the restaurant was also based on a real life event.

In 1972, a film adaptation of the novel was released, starring Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Al Pacino also did not participate, and his likeness was replaced with a different depiction of Michael Corleone.

Her nephew, George Clooney, was a pallbearer at her funeral, which was attended by numerous stars, including Al Pacino.

During the time of his audition, Azaria was doing a play in which he had the part of a drug dealer, basing his voice on actor Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon.

Another notable example is the 1932 film Scarface which was remade in 1983 starring Al Pacino ; whereas the setting of 1932 version is the illegal alcohol trade, the characters in the 1983 version are involved in cocaine smuggling.

* The movie Donnie Brasco, which starred Johnny Depp and Al Pacino, was filmed partially in Clifton in 1996.

Alfredo James " Al " Pacino (; born April 25, 1940 ) is an American film and stage actor and director.

* Al Pacino ( born 1940 ), actor and director

In 1980, director William Friedkin made the movie Cruising, starring Al Pacino.

From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.

* Al Pacino -- film and stage actor and director

When the star ( played by Winona Ryder ) of out-of-favor director Viktor Taransky's ( Al Pacino ) new film refuses to finish it, Taransky is forced to find a replacement.

This was director Harold Becker's second collaboration with Al Pacino.

A special feature is included: a conversation with Al Pacino and director Hugh Hudson discussing the film being rushed into release by the studio ( primarily Goldcrest films ), being trashed by the critics, and other issues relating to making and releasing Revolution.

His only musical output of the year consisted of contributing his cover of Phil Phillips ' " Sea of Love " to the soundtrack of the Al Pacino movie of the same name and contributing vocals to The Replacements song " Date to Church ", which appeared as a B-side to their single " I'll Be You ".

Following the release of their only studio album, ( GI ), The Germs recorded six original songs with legendary producer Jack Nitzsche for the soundtrack to the film, Cruising, starring Al Pacino.

Olivier won the New York Film Critics award for Best Actor as a compromise selection after the voters became deadlocked in a choice between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather after Stacey Keach in Fat City won a plurality in initial voting and rules were changed requiring a majority.

Al Pacino was not Friedkin's first choice for the lead ; Richard Gere had expressed a strong interest in the part, and Friedkin had opened negotiations with Gere's agent.

Gere was Friedkin's choice because he believed that Gere would bring an androgynous quality to the role that Pacino could not.