Al Pacino on stage and screen

Al Pacino is an American screen and stage actor. His film debut was in 1969 with the comedy drama film Me, Natalie. He had his first lead role in the 1971 drama film The Panic in Needle Park. The following year, he played Michael Corleone in the crime film The Godfather, a role he reprised in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). For his performance in the 1973 film Serpico, in which he played Frank Serpico, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. In 1983, he starred as Tony Montana in the crime drama film Scarface, which is considered one of the greatest gangster films, and is considered a cult classic.^[1][2]

Pacino in Serpico (1973)

Pacino and Penelope Allen in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Pacino in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977)

In the 1990s, Pacino starred in numerous films, including Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer (1991), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992; as Richard Roma), Scent of a Woman with Chris O'Donnell (1992), Carlito's Way with Sean Penn (1993), Heat with Robert De Niro (1995), Donnie Brasco with Johnny Depp (1997), The Devil's Advocate with Keanu Reeves (1997), and Any Given Sunday with Cameron Diaz (1999). For his performance in Scent of a Woman, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and his second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama.

Since the early 2000s, he has co-starred in films such as Insomnia opposite Robin Williams (2002), Simone with Catherine Keener (2002), and the thriller film 88 Minutes (2007). In 2007, he was cast as Willie Bank in the heist comedy film Ocean's Thirteen, the third installment in the Ocean's franchise, and the final film in the Ocean's Trilogy. The following year, he appeared in the action thriller film Righteous Kill, again with De Niro. In 2019, he had a minor role in Quentin Tarantino's comedy drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and he portrayed Jimmy Hoffa in The Irishman, the fourth film on which he and De Niro worked together. In 2021, he portrayed Aldo Gucci in the biographical crime drama film House of Gucci directed by Ridley Scott.

Pacino's television work includes the 2003 HBO miniseries Angels in America, in which he played American lawyer and prosecutor Roy Cohn, and the 2010 made-for-television biopic You Don't Know Jack, in which he played American pathologist and euthanasia proponent Dr. Jack Kevorkian. For both roles, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, making it his third and fourth Golden Globe Award. He also co-starred in the conspiracy drama streaming television series Hunters (2020–2023).

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1969	Me, Natalie	Tony		[3]
1971	The Panic in Needle Park	Bobby		[4]
1972	The Godfather	Michael Corleone		[5]
1973	Scarecrow	Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi		[6]
	Serpico	Frank Serpico		[7]
1974	The Godfather Part II	Michael Corleone		[8]
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Sonny Wortzik		[9]
1977	Bobby Deerfield	Bobby Deerfield		[10]
1979	...And Justice for All	Arthur Kirkland		[11]
1980	Cruising	Steve Burns		[12]
1982	Author! Author!	Ivan Travalian		[13]
1983	Scarface	Tony Montana		[14]
1985	Revolution	Tom Dobb		[15]
1989	Sea of Love	Frank Keller		[16]
1990	The Local Stigmatic	Graham		[17]
	Dick Tracy	Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice		[18]
	The Godfather Part III	Michael Corleone		[8]
1991	Frankie and Johnny	Johnny		[19]
1992	Glengarry Glen Ross	Richard "Ricky" Roma		[20]
	Scent of a Woman	Frank Slade		[21]
1993	Carlito's Way	Carlito "Charlie" Brigante		[22]
1995	Two Bits	Grandpa		[23]
	Heat	LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna		[24]
1996	City Hall	John Pappas		[25]
1997	Donnie Brasco	Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero		[26]
	The Devil's Advocate	John Milton / Satan		[27]
1999	The Insider	Lowell Bergman		[28]
	Any Given Sunday	Tony D'Amato		[29]
2000	Chinese Coffee	Harry Levine	Also director	[30]
2002	Insomnia	Will Dormer		[31]
	Simone	Viktor Taransky		[32]
	People I Know	Eli Wurman		[33]
2003	The Recruit	Walter Burke		[34]
	Gigli	Starkman		[35]
2004	The Merchant of Venice	Shylock		[36]
2005	Two for the Money	Walter Abrams		[37]
2007	88 Minutes	Dr. Jack Gramm		[38]
	Ocean's Thirteen	Willie Bank		[39]
2008	Righteous Kill	Det. David "Rooster" Fisk		[40]
2011	The Son of No One	Detective Charles Stanford		[41]
	Jack and Jill	Himself		[42]
2012	Stand Up Guys	Val		[43]
2013	Salomé	King Herod	Also director and writer	[44]
2014	Manglehorn	A.J. Manglehorn		[45]
	The Humbling	Simon Axler	Also producer	[46]
2015	Danny Collins	Danny Collins		[47]
2016	Misconduct	Abrams		[48]
2017	The Pirates of Somalia	Seymour Tolbin		[49]
	Hangman	Detective Ray Archer		[50]
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Marvin Schwarz		[51]
	The Irishman	Jimmy Hoffa		[52]
2021	American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally	James Laughlin
	House of Gucci	Aldo Gucci
2023	Knox Goes Away	Xavier
2024	Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness	Maurice Gangnat	Also producer	[53]
2025	The Ritual	Father Theophilus Riesinger	Post-production	[54]
TBA	Billy Knight	Billy Knight		[55]
	In the Hand of Dante			[56]
	Killing Castro			[57]
	Easy's Waltz			[58]
	Lear Rex	Rey Lear		[59]
	Dead Man's Wire			[60]

Documentaries

Pacino at JDIFF 2012 for Wilde Salomé

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1991	Madonna: Truth or Dare	Himself		[61]
1996	Looking for Richard	Himself / Richard III	Also director, writer and producer	[62]
1997	Pitch	Himself		[63]
2001	America: A Tribute to Heroes			[64]
2009	I Knew It Was You			[65]
2011	Wilde Salomé	Himself / King Herod / Oscar Wilde	Also director and writer	[66]
2012	Casting By	Himself		[67]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1968	N.Y.P.D.	John James	Episode: "Deadly Circle of Violence"	[68]
2003	Angels in America	Roy Cohn	6 episodes	[69]
2010	You Don't Know Jack	Dr. Jack Kevorkian	Television film	[70]
2013	Phil Spector	Phil Spector		[71]
2018	Paterno	Joe Paterno		[72]
2020–2023	Hunters	Meyer Offerman	18 episodes	[73]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Theater	Notes	Ref(s)
1967	America, Hurrah	2nd Interviewer, Hal	Charles Playhouse		[74][75]
	Awake and Sing!	Ralph Berger	Charles Playhouse		[76][77]
1968	The Indian Wants the Bronx	Murph	Astor Place Theatre		[78]
1969	Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?	Bickham	Belasco Theatre		[79]
	The Local Stigmatic	Graham	Actors Playhouse		[80]
1970	Camino Real	Kilroy	Vivian Beaumont Theatre		[81]
1972	The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel	Pavlo Hummel	Open Circle Theater		[82]
1973	Richard III	Richard, Duke of Gloucester	Loeb Theater		[83]
1975	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui	Arturo Ui	Charles Playhouse		[84]
1977	The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel	Pavlo Hummel	Longacre Theatre		[85]
1979	Richard III	Richard, Duke of Gloucester	Cort Theatre		[86]
1980	American Buffalo	Walter "Teach" Cole	Long Wharf Theatre
1981–1982			Circle in the Square Downtown		[87]
1983–1984			Booth Theatre		[88]
1984			Duke of York's Theatre		[89]
1988	National Anthems	The Neighbor	Long Wharf Theatre		[90]
	Julius Caesar	Mark Antony	The Public Theater		[91]
1992	Chinese Coffee	Harry Levine	Circle in the Square Theatre		[92]
	Salome	Herod Antipas	Circle in the Square Theatre		[93]
1996	Hughie	Erie Smith	Long Wharf Theatre	Also director
			Circle in the Square Theatre		[94]
1999			Mark Taper Forum		[95]
2002	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui	Arturo Ui	National Actors Theatre		[96]
2003	Salome	Herod Antipas	Ethel Barrymore Theatre
2005	Orphans	Harold	Greenway Court Theatre		[97]
2006	Salome	Herod Antipas	Wadsworth Theatre
2010–2011	The Merchant of Venice	Shylock	Broadhurst Theatre		[98][99]
2012–2013	Glengarry Glen Ross	Sheldon "Shelley" Levene	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre		[100]
2015–2016	China Doll	Mickey Ross	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre		[101]
2017	God Looked Away	Tennessee Williams	Pasadena Playhouse		[102]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Scarface: The World is Yours	Tony Montana	Likeness (also film excerpts)

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Al Pacino