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After his award-winning work as a stage actor, Cazale's big screen debut, alongside his old friend Al Pacino, was as Fredo Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. The film broke box office records and made Pacino, Cazale and several of their previously unknown co-stars famous. Cazale would again star alongside Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (for which he received a Golden Globe nomination), as well as reprising his role as Fredo in The Godfather Part II.
Despite being diagnosed with cancer, Cazale continued to work, his final appearance being alongside his then fianceéAn engagement is an agreement by a couple to enter into marriage at some future time, usually accompanied by a formal or informal announcement to friends and family. Following this agreement, the couple is said to be "engaged to be married," or simply "en Meryl StreepMeryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an actress, who by the mid- 1980s was regarded by many as the best actress of her day. Born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, USA, she appeared in her first film, Julia in 1977. She has won Academy Awards for h in his fifth film The Deer HunterThe Deer Hunter is a 1978 film which tells the story of how the Vietnam War affects the people of a small town in Pennsylvania, although it was actually filmed in Mingo Junction, Ohio. It stars Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken,. Cazale never lived to see the release of the film and thus never learnt that every single feature in which he had starred had received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He is the only actor of those with multiple films to their credit who has such a distinction.