| rdfs:comment | - Santino 'Sonny' Corleone, Sr. was the eldest child of the Corleone family, known for his temper, compulsive aggression, and rash decisions.
- Name: Santino "Sonny" Corleone Rank: Underboss Current Status: Dead Santino (Sonny) Corleone is the elder son of Don Vito Corleone. In the original films he has a son with his lover Lucy Mancini, but he is married. His son is Vincent Mancini. Sonny rules the family while the Don is recovering from his wounds. He declares a war against the rival families. He is shot to death due to his impulsiveness. He receives a call from Connie because Carlo is beating her hard. So, he decides, in a rush, to go to beat Carlo and maybe kill him. He goes as fast as he can and nobody from the Corleone Family can join him. He is then brutally killed with machine guns. Then The Undertaker arranges his face for his mother not to see him that way, a service for Don Corleone.
- In the novel and film, he is the oldest son of New York City Mafia Don Vito Corleone and Carmela Corleone. He has two brothers, Fredo and Michael, an adoptive brother, Tom Hagen, and a sister, Connie. In the film, Sonny was portrayed by James Caan, who reprised his role for a flashback scene in Part II. Director Francis Ford Coppola's son Roman Coppola played Sonny as a boy in the 1920s scene of that film.
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| abstract | - In the novel and film, he is the oldest son of New York City Mafia Don Vito Corleone and Carmela Corleone. He has two brothers, Fredo and Michael, an adoptive brother, Tom Hagen, and a sister, Connie. In the film, Sonny was portrayed by James Caan, who reprised his role for a flashback scene in Part II. Director Francis Ford Coppola's son Roman Coppola played Sonny as a boy in the 1920s scene of that film. Born in 1916, Sonny is depicted in both the novel and the movies as the most impulsive and violent of Vito's children and the most involved in his father's criminal operations. The novel provides additional backstory for Sonny: when he was 16, he committed a robbery. His father learns about it from Peter Clemenza, who stood as godfather to Sonny. When Vito asks Sonny why he did this, Sonny tells him that he saw his father kill the blackhander Don Fanucci years earlier. He then tells his father, "I want to learn how to sell olive oil." Vito realizes what Sonny really means, and sends him to Clemenza for training.
- Santino 'Sonny' Corleone, Sr. was the eldest child of the Corleone family, known for his temper, compulsive aggression, and rash decisions.
- Name: Santino "Sonny" Corleone Rank: Underboss Current Status: Dead Santino (Sonny) Corleone is the elder son of Don Vito Corleone. In the original films he has a son with his lover Lucy Mancini, but he is married. His son is Vincent Mancini. Sonny rules the family while the Don is recovering from his wounds. He declares a war against the rival families. He is shot to death due to his impulsiveness. He receives a call from Connie because Carlo is beating her hard. So, he decides, in a rush, to go to beat Carlo and maybe kill him. He goes as fast as he can and nobody from the Corleone Family can join him. He is then brutally killed with machine guns. Then The Undertaker arranges his face for his mother not to see him that way, a service for Don Corleone.
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