OF HUNTERS ON PRIME VIDEO

Q: Is Al Pacino scheduled to do any more work for television?

A: Not as of the time this column was written, but the Academy Award and Primetime Emmy winner certainly has made his mark in projects for the home screen. Seen on the most recent Oscar telecast presenting the honor for best picture at the end of the ceremony, Pacino had his earliest known role on film in a 1968 episode of the ABC police drama “N.Y.P.D.,” a series on which many New York-based performers found work in the course of establishing their careers.

It was a long time after that until Pacino did TV projects again, since his 1972 success in “The Godfather” set him on a course of work that kept him in feature films and theater. It was the HBO version of an iconic play that brought Pacino back to the home screen, as he played attorney Roy Cohn in the Mike Nichols-directed 2003 film of “Angels in America.” His Emmy win for that performance was part of a huge victory for the piece at those awards, which also honored the acting of Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright and Mary-louise Parker in it.

Next, Pacino returned to HBO as controversial pathologist Jack Kevorkian in director Barry Levinson’s 2010 film “You Don’t Know Jack,” earning his second Emmy for his acting. He was back on HBO in 2013 in the title role of “Phil Spector,” writer-director David Mamet’s 2013 profile of the polarizing music-industry figure, for which Pacino picked up his third Emmy.

In 2018, Pacino visited HBO again by reuniting with director Levinson for “Paterno,” about former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and a scandal that ultimately cost him his career at the school. Most recently in Tv-oriented terms, Pacino starred in the 2020-23 Prime Video series “Hunters,” playing a disguised-through-surgery Nazi who led a group of Nazi hunters decades after World War II.