 Warren Beatty (qv), Jack Nicholson (qv), and  Dustin Hoffman (qv) were all offered the part of Michael Corleone,  but all refused. Paramount production chief Robert Evans (I) (qv)  wanted Robert Redford (I) (qv) to be cast in the part, but  director Francis Ford Coppola (qv) demurred as he was too WASPy.  The Irish