The Godfather: A Novel for Television

Robert De Niro is an American actor. He gained his reputation as a volatile actor in Mean Streets (1973), which was his first of 8 films with director Martin Scorsese. In 1974, De Niro received an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and received another 4 nominations for best actor. He won the best actor award in 1980 for Raging Bull. He also received 8 Golden Globes nominations. De Niro currently heads his own production company, Tribeca Film Center.

Alfredo James Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, Tony Montana in Scarface, Carlito Brigante in the 1993 film Carlito's Way, Frank Serpico in Serpico, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman, and Roy Cohn in Angels in America. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 for his role in Scent of a Woman after receiving seven previous nominations.

Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in 1949... (imdb)

Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards over the course of his career. He began appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small, supporting television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with movies like MASH (1970) and THX 1138 (1971). (Wikipedia)

Credits include: The Godfather, Elf, Misery, Dogville and Get Smart

Credits include: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter and The Conversation

Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall) is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor...(Wikipedia)

Bronx born, stocky Italian-American actor who only appeared in a handful of films, yet earned some degree of immortality for his role as the loyal Corleone capo "Peter Clemenza" teaching Al Pacino how to shoot a crooked police captain in the iconic gangster film "The Godfather."

Credits include: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Rocky, The Godfather: Part III and Rocky IV