Cazale was a fellow native of Revere, Massachusetts, where I lived in my first home on Alice Street until age four. Cazale was a townie born the same year as my dad (1935) and he knew the joy of standing in line for a Kelly’s Roast Beef and the beauty of the Revere Beach sweep, especially on those cold, grey days where the outline of Nahant bore left off in the distance, and Winthrop on the right.

In this moving film, interviews and film clips are entwined as we hear from Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Olympia Dukakis, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Sidney Lumet, Israel Horovitz, Carol Kane, Richard Dreyfuss as well as fans Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi and Sam Rockwell.

This film is an intimate recollection by the actors, playwrights and filmmakers who knew him best and loved him very much. The only five films he was ever cast in, “The Godfather,” “The Conversation,” “The Godfather,” “Part Two,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “The Deer Hunter” – were nominated for Best Picture by the Academy; all of them are considered classics. In total, those five films netted 40 nominations (14 were for acting awards), and Cazale received none.Stage: Appeared as Angelo in William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” for Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. The play opened at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park on July 29, 1976 and closed on August 29, 1976 after 27 performances.

Stage: Appeared in Israel Horovitz’s play “Acrobats & Line” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, opening February 15, 1971 and closing Date March 14, 1971 after 31 performances.