Fredo Corleone Quotes and Sound Clips

Frederico "Fredo" Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. In the fictional universe of the novel and its film adaptation, he is the younger brother to Sonny (James Caan) and elder brother to Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), Connie (Talia Shire) and son of Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), head of a powerful Mafia family. Fredo was portrayed by Italian-American actor John Cazale in Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of the novel, as well as in its sequel. Despite playing the middle son, Cazale was actually four and half years older than James Caan, who portrayed Sonny (1941, 1945 - 1948). In Puzo's novel, Fredo is thought of in the Corleone crime Family as the weakest of the three Corleone brothers, and therefore is given its unimportant businesses to run. Despite being a weak and sickly child (Part II shows Fredo infected with pneumonia as a baby), however, Fredo is the most obedient and dutiful of the Corleone children. In a pivotal scene in the novel and...