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13 unusual facts about Michael Corleone


Archbishop Gilday

At the outset of the film, he bestows one of the Church's highest honors, the Order of St. Sebastian, on Michael Corleone.

Billy Van Arsdale

Shortly after, it is revealed that he has secretly been collecting evidence against the Corleone Family, most likely due to a grudge he has against Michael Corleone because he had his leg broken for infidelity.

Commendatore

In The Godfather: Part III, Michael Corleone is addressed as Commendatore Michael Corleone on his return to Sicily because he has received a Papal decoration.

Don Corleone

Michael Corleone, Vito's son, played by Al Pacino, who took over the control of the family

Lucy Mancini

In that film, Lucy is the mother of Sonny's illegitimate son, Vincent, who eventually succeeds Michael Corleone as the head of the Corleone crime family.

Momo Barone

Barone meets with Geraci, who is still on the run in 1963, and agrees to help Geraci in his bid to dethrone Michael Corleone and take over as Don.

Michael Corleone considers him untrustworthy because of his blood relationship to Tessio, but he is nevertheless widely liked within the Corleone family; Tom Hagen in particular trusts him enough to give him the job of killing a man who stole his watch.

Nick Geraci

He is a caporegime in the Corleone crime family, but later betrays the family, and becomes a sworn enemy to Don Michael Corleone.

Ritchie Nobilio

From then on, he is Michael Corleone's top earner and one of his most trusted men on the streets.

Sal Narducci

In 1956, Geraci finds out that Narduci is a spy for Michael Corleone, and goes to Forlenza.

The Sicilian

Michael Corleone – The son of the famed Vito Corleone and heir to the Corleone family.

The novel opens in 1950 Sicily, where Michael Corleone, nearing the end of his exile in Sicily, meets with Don Croce Malo, the Capo di Capi or Boss of bosses in Sicily, his brother, Father Benjamino Malo, Stefan Andolini (redheaded cousin of Don Vito Corleone), and Sicilian Inspector Frederico Velardi.

Virgil Sollozzo

But the plans fall through after Vito's youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) arrives at the scene, finds all the guards gone, suspects that Sollozzo is about to make another assassination attempt, and is able to save his father.


Carmine Falcone

Lastly, his elder son Mario's deportation to Sicily, physical appearance and desire to redeem and legitimize the Falcone family name are all traits shared with Michael Corleone.

Corleone

Michael Corleone is played by Al Pacino, whose real-life maternal grandparents were Corleonese.

Robert O. Lowery

Either as tribute or by happenstance, his name is shown prominently in a scene of the first movie The Godfather, printed in bold red letters on a hospital fire safety box in the scene where Michael Corleone protects his father, Vito Corleone, against would-be assassins in the absence of his bodyguards.