The television version was the basis for a shorter, 1981 video release known as The Godfather 1902 – 1959: The Complete Epic.

* 1993 – " Raise It Up ( featuring Godfather Don )"/" The Saga Of Dandy, The Devil And Day ( Black Baseball )"

This home viewing release, under the title The Godfather Trilogy 1901 – 1980, had a total run time of 583 minutes ( 9 hours, 43 minutes ), not including the set's bonus documentary by Jeff Werner on the making of the films, " The Godfather Family: A Look Inside ".

* Mario Puzo ( 1920 – 1999 ), author of The Godfather.

) He describes the acting he has done as " a little more difficult than if you had a regularly well-written script – like, if I was going to be in, say, Reservoir Dogs, or The Godfather, or Dances with Wolves or Lawrence of Arabia or ER, I had to talk to a car.

* Mario Puzo – The Godfather

Chuck Brown ( August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012 ) was an American guitarist and singer who is affectionately called " the Godfather of Go-go ".

** The Godfather, the Academy Award – winning 1972 film with Marlon Brando as the Godfather

* The Godfather – Nino Rota

* Noboru Yamaguchi ( 1901 – 1942 ), the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi

* 1957 – 1976 — Carlo " The Godfather " Gambino – died of natural causes 1976.

He played the same role in The Godfather Part III and The Godfather Trilogy: 1901 – 1980.

The Godfather character was constantly surrounded by " hos " – usually girls from local strip clubs.

* Kama Mustafa / The Godfather ( June 16, 1997 – October 18, 1998 )

* The Godfather of Soul – James Brown

* Godfather Part II ( 1974 ) – the scenes that took place in Cuba were shot in Santo Domingo.

Richard Salvatore Castellano ( September 4, 1933 – December 10, 1988 ) was an American actor who is best remembered for his Oscar nominated role in Lovers and Other Strangers and his subsequent role as Peter Clemenza in The Godfather.

John Marley ( October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984 ) was an American actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz — the defiant film mogul who awakens to find the severed head of his prized horse in his bed — in The Godfather ( 1972 ).

* " Promise Me You'll Remember " by Harry Connick, Jr. – The Godfather: Part III

* The Godfather: The Game – Bruno Tattaglia, Al Neri

Carmine Coppola ( June 11, 1910 – April 26, 1991 ) was an American composer, flautist, editor, musical director, and songwriter who contributed original music to The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, and Apocalypse Now, all directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola.

The Godfather Saga is also known as The Godfather: The Complete Novel For Television, The Godfather: A Novel for Television, and The Godfather Novella.

In 1981, Paramount released the Godfather Epic boxed set, which also told the story of the first two films in chronological order, again with additional scenes, but not redacted for broadcast sensibilities.

It is also the place where Don Corleone was held as an immigrant boy in The Godfather Part II, where he was marked with an encircled X.

The Godfather Part II is ranked as the # 1 greatest movie of all time in TV Guide's " 50 Best Movies of All Time ", and is ranked at # 7 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the " 100 Greatest Movies of All Time ".

In the film The Godfather ( Coppola 1972 ), POV is used extensively, especially during the opening scene when Don Corleone is listening to requests from wedding guests.

He is also known to have ' cheated ' on his experiments, removing outliers and generally ' tidying ' datasets-statistics, and repeating the experiments, shows that his results were just ' too perfect ', a point first noted by the Godfather of statistics, RA Fisher, in 1936: http :// www. cs. brown. edu / courses / csci1950-l / presentations / REVISED -- AFCB % 202007 % 20Course % 20Fisher % 20and % 20Mendel. ppt

** The novel The Godfather ( novel ) by Mario Puzo is published.

** The Godfather is released in cinemas in the United States.

He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer.

Director Fred Zinneman commented that "... the legend about a horse's head having been cut off is pure invention, a poetic license on the part of Mario Puzo who wrote The Godfather.

Film critic Marie Brenner writes that " for De Niro, it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, part II, ... performance deserves to be compared with the very finest.

The town is depicted in the The Godfather Part III.

It is known primarily as the birthplace of several Mafia bosses, some fictional, such as The Godfather < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Vito ( Andolini ) Corleone, and some real, such as Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

The Godfather is a crime novel written by Italian American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Although it is widely reported that Puzo was inspired to use " Godfather " as a designator for a Mafia leader from his experience as a reporter, the term The Godfather was first used in connection with the Mafia during Joe Valachi's testimony during a 1963 United States congressional hearing on organized crime.

Continuing Puzo's habit, as seen in The Godfather, of featuring characters who are close analogues of real life events and public figures ( as Johnny Fontane is an analogue of Frank Sinatra ), Winegardner features in his two Godfather novels analogues of Joseph, John, and Robert Kennedy, as well as an analogue for alleged organized crime figure Carlos Marcello ( Carlo Tramonti ).

Vatican Bank was Banco Ambrosiano's main shareholder, and the death of Pope John Paul I in 1978 is rumored to be linked to the Ambrosiano scandal, giving one of the subplots of The Godfather Part III.

* Virgil Sollozzo, a character in The Godfather who is nicknamed " The Turk "

The title character of Vito Corleone in Mario Puzo's The Godfather was considered by many to be largely based on Bonanno, although the character is in many ways a composite of several figures.

There is an ambiguous allusion to Keaton's feature roles in the first two films of The Godfather trilogy.

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic that Francis Ford Coppola produced, directed, and co-wrote with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

Partially based on Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather, the film is in part both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, presenting two parallel dramas.