Up for auction “Scarface” Al Pacino Hand Signed 11X14 Color Photo. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and

comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.  

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Alfredo James Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnoʊ/; Italian: [paˈtʃiːno]; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and

filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He

is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He

has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award,

the Cecil B. DeMille Award,

and the National Medal of Arts. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton

and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's

film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). He gained favorable notice for

his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971).

Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received a

nomination for the Academy

Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he would reprise the role in

the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974)

and The Godfather Part III (1990).

Pacino received nominations for the Academy Award for Best

Actor for Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and ...And Justice for All (1979),

and winning for playing a blind military veteran in Scent of a Woman (1992).

For his performances in Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992),

and The Irishman (2019),

he earned additional nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting

Actor. Other notable portrayals include Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way (1993), Benjamin Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997),

and Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999).

He has also starred in the thrillers Heat (1995), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Insomnia (2002),

and appeared in Once Upon a Time in

Hollywood (2019). On television, Pacino has acted in

several productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003)

and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010),

winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a

Movie for each. Pacino currently stars in the Amazon Video series Hunters (2020–present).

He has also had an extensive career on stage. He is a two-time Tony Award

winner, in 1969 and 1977, for his performances in Does a Tiger Wear a

Necktie? and The Basic Training of

Pavlo Hummel. Pacino made his filmmaking debut with Looking for Richard (1996),

directing and starring in this documentary about Richard III; Pacino

had played the lead role on stage in 1977. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film

adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice.

Pacino directed and starred in Chinese Coffee (2000), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013).

Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio.

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