Seymour Cassel
Acting
Born January 22, 1935 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Seymour Joseph Cassel (January 22, 1935 – April 7, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television shows, with a career spanning over 50 years. He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/director John Cassavetes. The first of these was Too Late Blues (1961), followed by Faces (1968), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a National Society of Film Critics Award. Cassel went on to appear in Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), and Love Streams (1984). He also appeared in other notable films, including: Coogan's Bluff (1968), The Last Tycoon (1976), Valentino (1977), Convoy (1978), Johnny Be Good (1988), Mobsters (1991), In the Soup (1992), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), Imaginary Crimes (1994), Beer League (2006), and Fort McCoy (2011). Like Cassavetes, Wes Anderson frequently cast Cassel – first in Rushmore (1998), then in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and finally in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).
Films (167)
Every Night's a Saturday Night
2018
Lucky Dog
2014
The Dependables
2014
Fort McCoy
2014
At The Maple Grove
2014
The Secret Lives of Dorks
2013
Booster
2012
Broken Kingdom
2012
Lost Angeles
2012
Kingdom Come
2012
Pass the Salt, Please
2012
Silver Case
2012
Faces
2011
Freerunner
2011
L!fe Happens
2011
Without Borders
2010
Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010
Back Nine
2010
The Aristofrogs
2010
Chasing 3000
2010
Staten Island
2009
Not Dead Yet
2009
To Love and Die
2008
Reach for Me
2008
Beau Jest
2008
Big Heart City
2008
Cosmic Radio
2007
Postal
2007
Hollywood Dreams
2007
Sea of Dreams
2006
Beer League
2006
Ray of Sunshine
2006
Edge of Outside
2006
The Tenants
2006
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006
Lonesome Jim
2005
Circadian Rhythm
2005
Before It Had a Name
2005
The Wendell Baker Story
2005
This Is an Adventure
2005
Bittersweet Place
2005
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
Making 'Faces'
2004
Stuck on You
2003
Passionada
2003
A Good Night to Die
2003
Sonny
2002
The Burial Society
2002
Manna from Heaven
2002
Stealing Harvard
2002
The Biz
2002
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
The Cure for Boredom
2001
61*
2001
Bartleby
2001
The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
Women of the Night
2001
Animal Factory
2000
A Constant Forge
2000
Just One Night
2000
The Crew
2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
Black & White
1999
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
1999
Kubanisch rauchen
1999
Me and Will
1999
Ballad of the Nightingale
1999
Rushmore
1998
Stingers
1998
Emma's Wish
1998
Snapped
1998
The Treat
1998
Hoods
1998
Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
Johnny 316
1998
Motel Blue
1997
Obsession
1997
This World, Then the Fireworks
1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
Chameleon
1996
Dead Girl
1996
Turnpike
1996
The Last Home Run
1996
Slaughter of the Cock
1996
Cannes Man
1996
Trees Lounge
1996
Things I Never Told You
1996
Dream for an Insomniac
1996
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1996
Seed
1996
Dead Presidents
1995
Tollbooth
1994
Ouf!
1994
Imaginary Crimes
1994
Hand Gun
1994
There Goes My Baby
1994
Dark Side of Genius
1994
It Could Happen to You
1994
Chasers
1994
Partners
1993
When Pigs Fly
1993
Anything for John
1993
Chain of Desire
1993
Boiling Point
1993
Indecent Proposal
1993
Trouble Bound
1993
Adventures in Spying
1992
In the Soup
1992
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
Love Is Like That
1992
Cold Heaven
1992
What Happened to Pete
1992
Face of a Stranger
1991
Dead in the Water
1991
Diary of a Hitman
1991
Mobsters
1991
White Fang
1991
Cold Dog Soup
1990
Dick Tracy
1990
Sweet Bird of Youth
1989
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
Wicked Stepmother
1989
Track 29
1988
Colors
1988
Plain Clothes
1988
Johnny Be Good
1988
Survival Game
1987
Best Seller
1987
Tin Men
1987
Eye of the Tiger
1986
Beverly Hills Madam
1986
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
1984
Young Lust: A Soap Opera
1984
Love Streams
1984
I Want to Live
1983
Double Exposure
1982
King of the Mountain
1981
The Jazz Singer
1980
The Mountain Men
1980
Angel on My Shoulder
1980
Sunburn
1979
Ravagers
1979
California Dreaming
1979
Convoy
1978
Opening Night
1977
Valentino
1977
Death Game
1977
Black Oak Conspiracy
1977
Scott Joplin
1977
The Last Tycoon
1976
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
1975
Nightside
1973
Minnie and Moskowitz
1971
The Revolutionary
1970
Faces
1968
Coogan's Bluff
1968
The Hanged Man
1964
The Killers
1964
The Nutty Professor
1963
The Webster Boy
1962
Too Late Blues
1961
Shadows
1960
Murder, Inc.
1960
Juke Box Racket
1960
Man on a String
1960